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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![MSS. Oxford: St. John’s College 172, ff. 3iiv-2i (sec. xv), anon. : 19 chapters. Bodl. Digby 133 (sec. xvi), f. 22 : English translation, ‘ by Robert Freelove of London, mercer, the 16 of Februarii a0 1550 ’ : 15 chapters ; beginning, ‘ The bodies of all things being ’ (attributed to Roger Bacon). Ashmole 1418, ff. 47-60 (English). Brit. Mus., Sloane 1799 (English). Printed, English translation, in Salmon’s Medicina Practica (1707), pp. 585-620, under the title, 1 Rogerii Bachonis Radix Mundi, translated out of Latin into English and claused, by William Salmon,’ 15 chapters (chapters 1-13 of the translation correspond generally to capp. 1-13 of the Latin version). 56. De subjecto transmutationis. MS. Paris : Bibl. Nat. 2598, f. 138 (sec. xv) : inc. ‘ Licet in questione qua queritur utrum in materia in qua generatur aliquid sit principium activum non credam te aliquatenus dubitare.’ ‘ Explicit de subjecto trans- mutationis secundum Rogerum Bachonis.’ (It may occur in one of his larger works.) 57. Editio super Geberem1 de tribus ordinibus medicine a Rogero Bacon. Inc. ‘ Tres sunt ordines medicinarum secundum Geberem.’ Expl. * Et ista duo S. capitula sunt pars cedule speculi.’ MSS. Cambridge : Univ. Libr. Ff. iv. 12, ff. 294v-8 (a.d. 1528-9). Bologna : Bibl. Univ. 474 (sec. xv), ff. 73v-85r, ‘ Rogerus Bacum [szc] super Geberem de tribus ordinibus medicine.’ Cf. Oxford, Corp. Chr. Coll. 226, f. 34, and Cambridge Univ. Lib. Ff. iv. 12, ff. 63-71, Joh. Pauper de lapide philosophorum, or Breviloquium Johannis Pauperis: inc. 1 Testatur Gebar . . . quod tres sunt ordines.’2 58. 1 Compendium Alkymie secundum eundem Magistrum Rog. Bacon ut estimatur.’ Inc. ‘ Amice accipe artem in brevibus.’ MS. Cambridge : Univ. Lib. Ff. iv. 12, ff. 3o6v-ii. 1 i.e. Jabir ibn Haiyan. Some of his works on alchemy were printed at Venice 1475 (?) together with poems ascribed to Friar Elias ; and at Berne 1545 with the * Spec. Alchemiae R. Bachonis’. Cf. Cambridge, Corpus Chr. Coll. MS. 99, §§9, 10 ; Ashmole MS. 1445, § iv, ff. 1-5. On Geber and pseudo-Geber see Berthelot, La Chimie au moyen âge, i. 343, iii, 126. 2 English version in MS. Ashmole, 1418, ff. I3V~20V.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28993949_0426.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
