London, British Library, ms. Royal 7 F.VII (fin. s. XIII)
330 x 230mm. (250 x 175), en dos columnas. Pergamino. 115 fols. (+ 4 fols. iniciales en papel, añadidos posteriormente + 3 fols. finales en pergamino +1 fol. al final en papel del s. XVI).
En algunos folios, ofrece esquemas matemáticos en tinta negra, con elementos en rojo: (fols. 4v-17 passim, 44r, 87r-v, 91v-92, 1v -en el margen-).
Catálogo, sobre la proveniencia del ms.: “William Herbert (or Herebert) (d. c. 1333-1337), 43rd regent master and lector in theology, Franciscan Convent, Oxford: marginal annotations, possibly in his hand throughout the Opus Maius (ff. 2-62v); the same hand inserted notes in Royal 7 F VIII, which probably originally formed part of Royal 7 F VII, Part 2 (see the Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections (1921), pp. 201-02). The Franciscan Convent, Hereford: possibly given by William Herbert while bound with Royal F VIII, which bears the inscription (now effaced), ‘Iste liber est de ordine fratrum minorum concessus W. Herebert qui eum ad ordinem procuravit’ (f. 13) (see Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections (1921), pp. 202-03, and Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1964), p. 100).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 774 (The Lumley Library (1956), no. 2181).
John Prideaux (b. 1578, d. 1650), bishop of Worcester from 1641 to 1650, regius professor of divinity at Exeter College, and chaplain of Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his name inscribed (f. 2r); note in his hand (f. 46).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: inscribed, ‘Joh[an]es Theyer, 1651’ (f. 2); inscribed, ‘Joh[an]es Theyer’ (ff. 112v, 114); included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, ‘1697’, but 1698?), II, 6375.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 16.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with the other 311 manuscripts from Theyer’s library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.”
Catálogo, notas: “This volume contains philosophical and mathematical treatises, chiefly by Roger Bacon (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1292), and was probably originally bound with its sister volume, Royal MS 7 F VIII, and subsequently separated while in Oxford in the middle of the 16th century. Other leaves of the manuscript from which f. 1 (an excerpt from Horace’s Epodes) was taken are now in Merton College, Oxford, MS E.3.19 and Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library (C. J. Rudoff collection) (Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings (1954), p. 57 and Corrigenda and Addenda (2004), no. 623).”
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descriptiones:
- Little (1914), 382-383
- Rashdall (1911), 1-2
- Warner, George F. – Gilson, Julius P. (1921), Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, London, vol. I, 201-202.
continentur:
Rashdall (1911), 1-2 (con añadidos propios):
(1) fols. ?: Pars Quarta op. 13.4 Compendii Studii Theologie (i.e. the sections on mathematics and geography which now make part of part iv. of Roger Bacon’s Opus Majus as printed by Bridges).
(2) fols. ?: Tractatus de Visu et Speculis (a fifteenth-century title), [probably not by Bacon].
(3) fols. ?: A Letter of Henry of Southwark to , Bishop of Constantia (? Coutances) on Optical Problems.
(4) fols. ?: op. 13.4 Tractatus de Corporibus Celestibus (fifteenth-century title) included with (i) by Bridges in part iv. of the Opus Majus. The author of the Catalogue thinks that this really belongs to the Opus minus.
(5) fols. ?: op. 13.4 De Laudibus Mathematice (fifteenth-century title) another revision of what occurs in No. I (above) and in part iv. of Opus Majus.
(6) fols. 78r-83r: op. 28 Compendium de studii theologiae.
(7) fols. ?: The third book of the pseudo-Ovidian poem De Vetula, forged in Ovid’s name, apparently by Richard de Fournival, Chancellor of Amiens (c. 1246). (See the Introduction by Cocheris, La Vieille, 1861, an edition of the medieval French translation of the work.) It is presumably inserted here because quoted by Bacon ; cf. Op. Maj., ed. Bridges, p. 263.
(8) fols. ?: Another Baconian fragment on op. 16 Communia Naturalia.
(9) fols. ?: A fragmentary and very corrupt copy of chapters forming the opening part of diffinitio quarta in a scheme wherein languages, logic and mathematics appear to have formed diff. i.-iii. The matter is in part the same as that of the op. 16 Communia Naturalia in art.
(8) fols. ?: above.
I am indebted to Mr. Gilson of the British Museum for the use, prior to publication, of the new catalogue of Royal MSS., from which I have derived the preceding information. I append the description of the present work in the new Catalogue: “The first part, on the three causes of error (c/. the first three causes in Op. Maius, part i.) is complete (extending to little more than three pages), and enough (dist. i., capp. 1-6) exists of the second to give an idea of its scope, which seems to be confined to a study of the logical apparatus of scholastic disputation, containing a discussion of that vis significativa of words to which the author alludes in Op. Tertium, cap. xxvii. as an important branch of grammar. It seems, therefore, improbable that Little is right in supposing that the quarta pars Compendii Studii Theologie in 7 F. viii. belongs to the same scheme. There is, however, some reason for supposing that art. (9) [see abovej below really forms part of it.”
(autor: Óscar de la Cruz. actualizado: 15.11.2019)