The Works of Roger Bacon

Abstract

THERE has recently appeared a whole series of important works on Roger Bacon. Since 1926, four parts of the “Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi” have been issued from the Clarendon Press, and now an English translation of the “Opus Majus” appears, in two large tomes, from the University of Pennsylvania. The time is approaching when we shall be able to form a balanced judgment of Roger from a survey of all his works. In the meantime we must be content to consider these works separately.

(1) Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi. Fasciculus VI. Compotus Fratris Rogeri, accedunt Compotus Roberti Grossecapitis Lincolniensis Episcopi, Massa Compoti Alexandri de Villa Dei,

nunc primum edidit Robert Steele. Pp. xxviii + 302. 1926. Fasciculus VII. Questioned supra Undecimum Prime Philosophie Aristotelis, nunc primum edidit Robert Steele collaborante Ferdinand M. Delorme, O.F.M. Pp. xii + 160. 1926. Fasciculus VIII. Questiones supra libros quatuor Physicorum Aristotelis, nunc primum edidit Ferdinand M. Delorme, O.F.M. collaborante Robert Steele. Pp. xxii + 284. 1928. Fasciculus IX. De Retardatione Accidentium Senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus, nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little, E. T. Withington. Pp. xliv + 224. 1928. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press.)

(2) The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon.

Roger Bacon. A Translation by Robert Belle Burke. Vol. 1. Pp. xiii + 418 + 4 plates. Vol. 2. Pp. vi + 419-840 + 4 plates. (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 42s. net.