Volume 1

Opus majus / edited, with introduction and analytical table by John Henry Bridges.

  • Roger Bacon
Date:
1897-1900]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Opus majus / edited, with introduction and analytical table by John Henry Bridges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ *** ] multos et infirmitates varias occupationibus exterioribus studii non vacavi. He had written, he says, much before entering the Franciscan Order, with a view to the instruction of youth (multa in alio statu conscripseram propter juvenum rudimenta); and of late years he had sent fragments of his works to friends (ialiqua capitula nunc de una scientia nunc dc alia ad instantiam amicorum aliquando more transitorio compilavi. No treatise, however, on any department of philosophy had been issued in a complete form. On the whole I am inclined to think that the short work edited by Dr. Gasquet is a first draft of what was afterwards expanded into the Opus Tertium. Bacon tells us that he was in the habit of writing his discourses several times over until they were brought into satisfactory shape. Sentiens meam imbecillitatem nihil scribo difficile quod non transeat usque ad quartum vel quintum exemplum antequam habeam quod intendo. J. H. B. July 21, 1897. Bacon's Opus Majus.]