Roger Bacon : essays contributed by various writers on the occasion of the commemoration of the seventh centenary of his birth / collected and edited by A.G. Little.
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Credit: Roger Bacon : essays contributed by various writers on the occasion of the commemoration of the seventh centenary of his birth / collected and edited by A.G. Little. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4** MS. Winchester College Y. 8 (sec. xv ex.), 13 leaves, paper. (It consists of 8 quaestiones ; i de humore aeris, 2 de gelu et quando humor cadens congelatur, 3 de tonitruo, 4 de terre motu, 5 de stellis que fiunt in aere, 6 de ventis, 7 de motu oceani, 8 de pestilentia.) 47. Speculum Astronomiae. Inc. ‘ Occasione quorundam libro- rum,’ generally ascribed to Albertus Magnus, and printed among his works (Opera Omnia, Lugd. 1621, vol. v ; Paris, 1891, vol. x), is ascribed to Roger Bacon by Mandonnet, who maintains that it was written in 1277 : Revue néo- scolastique de philosophie, xvii. 313-35 (August 1910). MSS. Bodl. Digby 81,1 f. 102. ‘ Tractatus quem composuit Albertus fr. predicator/—Digby 228, f. 76 (sec. xiv), anon.—Can. Mise. 517, f. 52v (sec. xv), ‘ Alberti magni speculum de nominibus librorum astrologie.’ Erfurt : Amplon. Q. 223 (sec. xiv ex.), ff. 105-16 : ‘ Tract, de nominibus librorum astronomie cui inscribitur speculum Alberti.’ Venice : S. Marco, Cl. xi, Cod. 71 (Z.L. 337). Vienna : Bibi. Pal. 5508 (secc. xiv-xv), ff. i6iv-8ov. 48. Tractatus de incarnatione sive de secretis philosophiae, or De probatione fidei Christianae per auctoritates paganorum, or De adventu Christi secundum carnem : inc. ‘ Quoniam occasione cuiusdam sermonis quem ad clerum feceram/ generally ascribed to John of Paris, O.P. (surnamed * Qui dort ’), is ascribed to Roger Bacon by Father F. Delorme, who is preparing an edition of the work. Cf. Archivum Franc. Hist., April 1911 ; Archivf. Lit. u. K.-Gesch., iv. 312-39. MSS. Oxford : Bodl. Can. Eccl. 19 (sec. xiv).—Lincoln Coll. 81 (sec. xv). Paris : Bibl. Nat., Lat. 13781. Bibl. de l’Arsenal, 78. Laon 275. Cf. Bateson, Cat. of Syon Monastery, 0 60 (p. 148), K 18 (p. 215). Many works on alchemy are attributed to Bacon errone- ously or without probability. A few of the following may, however, be genuine. 49. Speculum alchemiae (de transmutatione metallorum). Inc. praef.‘ Multifarie [Multifariam] multisque modis .. . ’ Cap. 1. ‘ In antiquis philosophorum libris ’ (7 chapters). MSS. Brit. Museum : Addit. 8786, f. 62 ; 15549, f. ioi (with the introductory letter) ; Sloane 1754, ff. 62-74 1 This volume formerly contained ‘ Cosmographia R. Bacon 21. Scac- carium morale 87. Mathematices vis et usus 67/](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28993949_0423.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
