The Grey Friars in OxfordLittle, A. G. (Andrew George)
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The Grey Friars in Oxford
Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
Franciscans -- Great Britain
Paris:--Mazarine 3576, _De coelestibus_ (five chapters). _Inc._ ‘Prima
igitur veritas.’
(3) _Gravity_, _Scientia ponderum de gravibus et levibus_.
Cf. _Tractatus trium verborum_.
Liber iii. (4) _Alchemy_, or, _De elementis_[1354].
Liber iv. _De vegetabilibus et generabilibus_[1355].
(5) _Agriculture._
See note in Brewer, _Opera Ined._ p. li.
(6) _Medicine._
(7) _Experimental Science._
Vol. IV. _Metaphysics and Morals._
_Inc._ ‘Quoniam intencio principalis est innuere nobis vicia studii
theologici que contracta sunt ex curiositate philosophie.’
MSS. Bodl.: Digby 190, fol. 86 b (sec. xiii-xiv). ‘Methaphisica
fratris Rogeri ordinis Fratrum Minorum, de viciis contractis in studio
theologie’ (25 lines).
Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 7440 (sec. xiv), fol. 38-40, fol. 25-32. ‘Incipit
metaphysica Rogeri Baconis de ordine praedicatorum’ (fragment).
It is, however, probable that these MS. fragments ought to be referred to
Bacon’s last work, the _Compendium Studii Theologiae_, rather than to the
_Compendium Philosophiae_.
_Compendium studii theologiae_, Bacon’s last work, bears the date 1292
(‘usque ad hunc annum Domini 1292’). Extracts from it are printed by
Charles, pp. 410-416. This work consisted of six parts or more.
Part i. _On the causes of error._
Part ii. _Logic and grammar in reference to theology._
These two parts are extant (though not complete) in MS. British
Museum, Royal F vii. pp. 153-161: there is a long gap between pp. 154
and 155.
According to this MS. the work consisted of two parts:
‘Incipit compendium studii theologiae et per consequens philosophiae
ut potest et debet servire theologicae facultati, et habet duas partes
principales; prima liberali communicatione sapientiae investigat omnes
causas errorum, et modos errandi in hoc studio.... Secunda pars
descendit ad veritates stabiliendas et ad errores cum diligentia
exterminandos.’
Part v. is preserved in Royal MS. 7 F. viii. f. 2 (sec. xiii) (almost
complete); it is a treatise on _optics_.
_Incipit_: ‘Acto prologo istius quintae partis hujus voluminis quam
voco compendium studii theologiae, in quo quidem comprehendo in summa
intentionem totius operis, extra partem ejus signans omnia impedimenta
totius studii et remedia, nunc accedo ad tractatum exponens ea quae
necessaria sunt theologiae de perspectiva et de visu.’
Part vi. is mentioned in Part v.: it is to be a treatise, ‘_De
multiplicatione Specierum_.’
In Part iv. also the words ‘_in partibus sequentibus_’ occur.
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