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
MS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 2598, f. 138 (sec. xv), ‘Explicit de subjecto
transmutationis secundum Rogerum Bachonis.’ It perhaps occurs in one
of his larger works.
_Libellus Rogerii Baconi ... de retardandis senectutis accidentibus et de
sensibus conservandis_ (11 chapters). This work is assigned by Charles to
the year 1276. _Inc. prol._ ‘Domine mundi ex nobilissima stirpe originem
assumpsistis.’ _Inc. cap._ 1. (De causis senectutis). ‘Senescente mundo
senescunt homines.’
MSS. Brit. Museum: Sloane 2320, fol. 56.
Bodl.: E Musaeo 155, pp. 591-637 (sec. xiv-xv); Canonic. Misc. 334,
fol. 1 (sec. xv); and 480, fol. 1 (sec. xv).
Printed at Oxford in 1596 (and in English, London 1683).
_Antidotarius_, a second part of this work. _Inc._ ‘Post completum
universalis sciencie medicacionis tractatum.’
MSS. Bodl.: Canonic. Miscell. 334 (fol. 21{b} to 25), and 480 (fol.
16); E Musaeo 155, p. 645. Cf. MS. Canon. Misc. 480, fol. 38{b}-47,
below.
_Liber Bacon de sermone rei admirabilis, sive de retardatione senectutis._
_Inc._ ‘Intendo componere sermonem rei admirabilis domino meo fratri E,
cujus vitam deus prolonget.’
MSS. Bodl.: E Musaeo 155, pp. 655-666; Digby 183, fol. 45 (sec. xiv
exeuntis); Canonic. Miscell. 334, fol. 25-31.
_De universali regimine senum et seniorum._ _Inc._ ‘Summa regiminis senum
universalis est hoc ut dicit Avicenna.’
MSS. Brit. Mus.: Sloane 2629, fol. 57.
Bodl.: Canon. Miscell. 334, fol. 18{b}-21{b}; 480 (_explicit_ fol.
16); and E Musaeo 155, p. 638.
_De graduacione medicinarum compositarum._ _Inc._ ‘Omnis forma inherens.’
MSS. Bodl. Canon. Misc. 334, fol. 32; 480; fol. 23{b} (the author’s
name is obliterated in the MS.).
_Tractatus de erroribus medicorum_[1358]. _Inc._ ‘Vulgus medicorum.’
MSS. Oxford: Bodl. Canon. Misc. 334, fol. 42; 480, fol. 30 (author’s
name obliterated); E Musaeo 155, pp. 669-689. Corpus Ch. Coll. 127
(sec xv).
_Canones practici de medicinis compositis componendis_, ‘Cap. i. Extractum
de libro septimo Serapionis qui est antidotarium suum et est theoricum
capitulum.’ (13 chapters.) _Inc._ ‘Necesse est illi qui vult componere
medicinas.’ ‘Explicit tractatus de compositione medicinarum per fratrem
rugerium bacon editus.’
MS. Bodl. Canon. Misc. 480, fol. 38{b}-47.
_De leone viridi_ (on the manufacture of mercury); only the summary by
Raymund Gaufredi is extant. _Inc._ ‘Verbum abbreviatum.’
MSS. Brit. Mus.:--Sloane 692, f. 46 (sec. xv). Oxford:--Corpus Chr.
Coll. 277. Printed at Frankfurt, 1603 (_Sanioris medicinae_, p. 264),
&c.
A number of works on alchemy are attributed to Roger Bacon erroneously or
without any probability.
_De consideratione quintae essentiae_; 3 books.
The author was a Franciscan who entered the Order at Toulouse[1359]. _Inc.
opus._ ‘Dixit Salomon sapientie cap. vii. Deus dedit mihi.’
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