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

1. Add MS 15549

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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
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1 item

2. 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

3. 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
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English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
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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
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1 item

5. Add MS 8786

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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
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
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1 item

6. Sloane MS 1754

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Sloane MS 1754
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Scientific, medical and alchemical miscellany
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Content: Scientific miscellany including alchemical texts and pigment recipes in Anglo-Norman French and a medical recipe in Latin, French and Middle English (see V. Derrien and Tony Hunt, 'L'Alchimie Anglo-Normande',(2009): 1. 'Medicina quam faciebat sibi Ypocras [Hippocrates] et posuit ei n...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
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A parchment codex, 214 folios

7. Sloane MS 276

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Sloane MS 276
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Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: f. 3 Albertus, Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon: Compositum de Compositis: 1582; 16th cent.; 17th cent.: Engl. ff. 4-10 b Roger Bacon: Breviloquium alchymiæ: 15th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Sloane MS 692

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Sloane MS 692
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Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: ff. 1-9 b, 113-117 b Roger Bacon: Speculum secretorum Alchimiæ: 14th-18th cent. ff. 20-46 b Nicolaus de Comitibus, of Padua and Florence: De lapide philosop...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Sloane MS 1091

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Sloane MS 1091
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Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: ff. 3-51 Jabir Ibn Haiyan, Al-Tarsusi: Summa perfectionis: 15th-17th cent.: Engl. and Lat. f. 51 b Joannes Ticinensis, Philosophus: Ad aurum potabile facien...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Sloane MS 2327

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Sloane MS 2327
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Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. Owners of Manuscripts: Dee (John): 1557, 1559. includes: ff. 2-4b Arnaldus de Villa Nova: De secretis naturæ: 15th-17th cent. f. 4 b Hermes, Trismegistus: De lapide ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item