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
Bodl.: Ashmole 1485, pp. 173-188 (sec. xvi), ‘Liber aquarum.’
_Thesaurus spirituum_, four treatises on the influence of planets, &c.
_Inc._ ‘Hec est doctrina omnium experimentorum.’
MS. Brit. Museum: Sloane 3853, f. 3-40 (sec. xv). ‘Hec est tabula
libri sequentis ... a quodam viro venerabili ordinis Minorum fratre
summa composita et ordinata, et a diligencia M. Rogero Bakon ordinis
Minorum nuper recognita, qui quidem liber pro omnibus hujus mundi
experimentis sufficit,’ &c.
‘Explicit liber qui secundum Robertum Turconem et Rogerum Bakon
fratrem Minorum Thesaurus spirituum nuncupatur.’
Cf. MS. Sloane 3850, f. 129{b}, _De nigromantia_, extracted from the
above.
_De fistula._
MS. Sloane 238, f. 214{b}-216{b} (sec. xv). ‘Secundum Rogerum Bacon ut
habetur in libro qui dicitur Thesaurus pauperum[1361].’
_Necromanciae._ _Inc._ ‘Debes mundare manus et pedes ante visionem
characterum.’
MS. Sloane 3884, f. 44{b} (sec. xv-xvi): ‘Haec sunt quae Rogerus Bacon
de pura necromancia dixit.’
Other worthless recipes, fragments, &c., attributed to Bacon will be found
in MSS:--
Bodl. 3, 349, ‘Index simplicium’; Ashmole 1423, iv. pp. 1-7 ‘Opus,’
‘Opus Commune,’ ‘De conclusionibus’; Sloane 692, f. 102, ‘Finalis
conclusio’; Harl. 2269, art. I; Cott. Jul. D. V. ‘De colore faciendo’;
Digby 196, f. 163{b}, ‘Septem virtutes naturae’; Ashmole 1485 (sec.
xv), various.
_De intellectu et intelligentia_, and _De nutrimento_, which Charles
considers genuine, are printed among the works of Albertus Magnus.
MSS. Bodl.: Digby 67, f. 107 (sec. xiv), anon: and Digby 55, f. 193,
anon: Alb. Magnus, _Opera_, V. p. 239 and 175 (Lugd. 1657).
_Tractatus de veritate theologiae in septem partes distributus_, perhaps
by Robert Bacon. _Inc._ ‘Flecto genua mea ad patrem domini nostri Jesu
Christi.’
MS. Bodley 745 (= 2764) (sec. xiv) pp. 113-188: ‘Incipit tractatus
fratris B.’ Part i. de trinitate dei; ii. de creatura dei; iii. de
corruptela peccati; iv. de incarnacione verbi; v. de gratia spiritus
sancti; vi. de medicina sacramentali; vii. de statu finalis judicii.
_Tractatus super Psalterium_, probably by Robert Bacon.
MS. _ibid._ pp. 193-497. ‘Incipit tractatus fratris R. Bacun, super
psalterium. Beatus vir qui.’
_Excerptiones Rogeri Bacon ex auctoribus musicae artis_; or correctly,
_Excerptiones Hogeri abbatis_, &c.
MS. Cambridge:--Corp. Chr. Coll. 260 (_olim_ 189).
Cf. MS. Milan:--Ambrosiana, _Rogerii de Baccono de generatione et
corruptione, de Musica, de prospectiva_ (Montfaucon, p. 523). Cf.
Opera Inedita, 295 _seq._
_De sacrae scripturae profundis misteriis authore Rogero Bacon._
MS. London:--Gray’s Inn, 17 (sec. xv); the title is in a later hand.
It is probably a version of the Expositiones Vocabulorum de singulis
libris Bibliae Rogeri compotistae monachi S. Eadmundi;
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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