Great thanks to everyone who took pains of satisfying my curiosity.
Two other questions appeared in the course of the time.
First:
a 90-years-old Austrian gentleman recalls that in his youth, being a
country physician, he ones visited a very traditional house where
there was a saying written on the wall: "Write your neighbour's
mistakes on running water; his good deeds engrave in marble." The
young physician remembered these words for the rest of his life, but
no one knows where they come from.
Second:
Why St. Francis addressed birds as "Fratres mei aves" (at least, in
Celano's transmission), although birds, according to the logic of
grammar, are rather "sisters"?
Eagerly waiting for your suggestions,
Elena Lemeneva
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Central European University
Medieval Studies Department
Nador utca 9, 1051 Budapest
HUNGARY
Pannonia utca, 49/B, IV/3
1133 Budapest Hungary
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