though the original manuscript has been lost, there are four manuscripts of the “de adventu” which are known to scholars. the chronicle was edited in the nineteenth century by j. s. brewer in the “monumenta fraciscana” (1858), by r. howlett (1882), by the friar minors at quaracchi (1885), and by felix lieberman in the “monumenta germaniae” (1885). a critical edition is lacking. father cuthbert, o.s.f.c., translated the work into english in 1903 under the title "the friars and how they came to england," and e. gurney salter rendered it in english in 1926 with the title "the coming of the friars minor to england and germany."