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Name Bacon, Roger, philosopher, Franciscan friar, c 1214-1292

1. Add MS 5025

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Alchemical rolls (The Ripley Scrolls)
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This is one of the twenty-one so-called Ripley Scrolls, a scroll that contains alchemical illustrations and a series of poems of the ‘Verses upon the Elixer’ that was produced for English owners from the fifteenth until the seventeenth centuries. The Ripley Scroll takes its name name from George...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
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Four paper rolls, framed in four parts

2. Add MS 8786

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ROGER BACON: collection of scientific, mathematical and alchemical works; 3rd quarter of 14th cent. Latin. Principal contents: - (1) ff. 2-10v. A version of part of the 'Compendium Philosophiae', vol. iii, book i, 'Communia Naturalium', inc. 'Ostensum quippe in principio huius compendii philosophiae', expl. 'terminus generationis', partly printed (ff. 7v-10v) in R. Steele (ed.), Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi (Oxford, 1911), fasc. iii, pp. 240-267; - (2) ff. 11v-12v. 'Opus Majus', part...
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Alchemy: Mathematics: Natural Philosophy: Roger Bacon, Franciscan: Natural Science: Collection of scientific, mathematical and alchemical works by Roger Bacon: 3rd quarter of 14th cent.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
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3rd quarter of the 14th century
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1 item

3. Add MS 15549

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A COLLECTION Of alchymical treatises, transcribed in the year 1474, by D. R., viz. " Nominale dictionum subtilium in hac sciencia; " being a table of Arabic and synonymous terms for metals and chemical substances, f. 2 ;-" Thesaurus Mundi, de transmutatione metallorum," divided into three parts, the last of which comprises a large collection of chvmical processes, with an alphabetical table prefixed. In a table of contents this work is entered as three articles.: the titles " Ycocedron Philo...
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David Ragor: Thesaurus mundi; an alchemical treatise. Alchemy: Alchymical treatises, transcribed by D[avid ?] R[agor ?]: in 1474. includes: f. 2 Chemistry: Nominale dictionlim subtilium in hac sciencia. f. 4 Thesaurus Mundi: An alchymical tract, probably compiled by David Ragor. f. 92 Frederi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1474
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 35253

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PHOTOGRAPH of Vatican MS. 4086, ff. 1-82 (early 14th cent.), containing:- 1. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, ]parts i.-iv. Beg. "Sapientie perfecta consideratio." f. 1. Ends "usquequo uestra reuerentia requirat principalem scripturam," omitting the section on astrology (ed. Bridges, Oxford, 1897, vol. i. p. 376). No titles to the several sections, which are marked (chapters and larger divisions alike) by ornamental initials. The text differs considerably from that of the Oxford edition, and...
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Court of Rome: Photograph of Vatican MS. 4086. Philosophy: Roger Bacon's Opus Majus: 14th cent. Francis Aidan Gasquet, DD, OSB: Prsented: in 1899. Roger Bacon: Opus Majus, parts i.-iv., and Letter to Clement IV.: 14th cent.: Photogr. includes: f. 149 Clement IV; Pope: Letter to, from R. Bac...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 36374

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(XIX. ff. 225). Oxford. County of Oxford: Views, plans and drawings: 1798-1849. City of Oxford: Drawings and plans of churches, etc.: 1757-1893. includes: ff. 7, 8 Oxford; University of : St. Alban Hall: Views: 1811, 1822. ff. 35-50 Oxford; University of. All Souls College: Views and drawing...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1757-1893
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1 item

6. Add MS 36674

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COLLECTIONS relating to Magic and Witchcraft from the papers of various 16th and 17th century astrologers, finally put together probably in the library of John Somers, Lord Somers (v. catalogue in Harl. MS. 7191, f. 158 b). The table of contents on f. 3 is in the same hand as Somers' catalogue. Artt. 1-4 belonged early in the 17th cent. to Gabriel Harvey, the poet and friend of Spenser, who has annotated them throughout (compare the hand with Add. MS. 32494). Art. 10 and probably some other ...
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Bookplates: White (Henry), F.S.A.: 19th cent. Magic: Collections relating to: 16th-17th cent. includes: f. 5 Solomon, King: "Clavicula Salomonis": 16th cent.: Lat. f. 23 b Henricus Cornelius Agrippa: Extract from "De occulta philosophia" of: 16th cent. f. 31 Petrus, de Abano: Heptameron: 16th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 46139

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MISCELLANEOUS ALCHEMICAL TRACTS, MEDICAL AND COOKERY RECIPES, etc., mainly in English. Partly (see below) in the hand of Alexander Gill (b. 1565, d. 1635), High Master of St Paul's School, cf. e.g. Sloane MS. 3722, viz.:- (1) Recipes, mainly medical, ff. 1-23b, and mainly cookery, ff. 24-57. F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
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1 item

8. MS Facsimile 55

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MS Facsimile 55
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ROGER BACON: Communium Naturalium, liber I. (Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, MS. 3576). Reduced photographs, unpublished. Presented by R. Steele, Esq. Roger Bacon: Communium Naturalium lib. i. Facsimile of Bibl. Mazarine MS. 3576.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
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1 item

9. MS Facsimile 64 S

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MS Facsimile 64 S
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(s) Roger Bacon, Metaphysics (Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS. lat. 7440, ff. 38-40, 25-32); 22 reduced photographs. Presented by Robert Steele, Esq. Roger Bacon: Metaphysica.: Facsimiles from Paris Bibl. Nat. MS. lat. 7440.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
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1 item

10. MS Facsimile Suppl III C

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MS Facsimile Suppl III C
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(c) Facsimiles of two miniatures containing portraits of Roger Bacon, from Bodleian MS. 211, 15th cent. Presented by Sir John Sandys. Roger Bacon, Franciscan: Portraits of, in MS. Bodl. 211: 15th cent.: Facsimiles [bef. 1921]. ART. ILLUMINATIONS AND DRAWINGS PORTRAITS: Roger Bacon, in miniatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1921
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1 item