[Tractatus trium verborum].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

leaves 1r-10r : paper ; 298 x 196 (227 x 150) mm bound to 306 x 207 mm

Contained In:

UPenn Ms. Codex 110.

Other Title:

Rogerus Bacun, Johanni Parisiensi salutem et se totum ... cum ego Rogerus rogatus a pluribus.

Epistolae tres ad Johannem Parisiensem.

Place of Publication:

[England?], [between 1400 and 1450?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Alchemical work by Roger Bacon.

Notes:

Ms. component part.

Title from Thorndike and Kibre, 296. Zacour-Hirsch also gives the alternate title: Epistolae tres ad Johannem Parisiensem.

Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Rogerus Bacun, Johanni Parisiensis salutem et se totum ... cum ego Rogerus rogatus a pluribus ... (f. 10r) in qua latet sapientia mundi.

Note on recto of second front flyleaf, dated 1 December 1892 and signed by Falconer Madan, states that this work had never yet been printed but that the British Museum owned three manuscript copies and Oxford four.

Cited in:

Thorndike, Lynn and Kibre, Pearl. A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin. Rev. and augm. ed. (London: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1963), 296.

In manuscript described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954), p. 231 (Ms. E. F. Smith 3).

OCLC:

155962427