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The International Society for
Franciscan Studies was founded in 1902 by Paul Sabatier (1858-1928), and
a British Branch with Sabatier as its President was established in the
same year, with a library from the outset. In 1907 this branch was reorganised
as the British Society of Franciscan Studies, which was primarily a society
for publishing texts and studies on Franciscan history and the religious
life in the Middle Ages. It also became associated with productions of
the Little plays of St. Francis by Laurence Housman at
University College, the proceeds from which supported the Society. In 1938
the Society disbanded
and deposited its books in the College Library. The collection, of c.200
volumes, includes, in addition to the
Society’s publications, a general collection on St. Francis of Assisi
and the history of the Franciscan order; mainly early 20th century, but
with three of the 17th, eight of the 18th, four of the earlier and thirty-one
of the later 19th century. The Society had printed a catalogue of its library
in 1904, of which the Library holds a copy with additions up to 1938 noted
largely in the hand of R.W. Chambers.
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200 volumes.