...•.,,•- & . 'Z.ni/3 CUu^tnt itf 13) S fem |Jttrd(}as4& ivmrn r\ 1 n Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/fratrisrogeribacOObaco BRITISH SOCIETY OF FRANCISCAN STUDIES VOL. III : : %ist ot ©fficcrs of tbc Socictg, \m. Hon. President — Paul Sabatier. Committee — A. G. Little, Chairman. Professor T. W. Arnold. G. G. Coulton. P. Descours. Rev. W. H. Frere. T. E. Harvey. C. L. KlNGSFORD. Professor W. P Ker. P E. Moon. Rev. Canon H. Rashdall. Rev. H. G. Rosedale. Professor M. E. Sadler. Miss E. Gurney Salter. Professor T. F. Tout. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer :— Mr. Paul Descours, 65 Deauville Road, Clapham Park, London, S.W. FRATRIS ROGERI BACON COMPENDIUM STUDII THEOLOGIAE H. RASHDALL una cum: APPENDICE DE OPERIBUS ROGERI BACON EDITA PER A. G. LITTLE O ABERDONIAE: TYPIS ACADEMICIS 3 "K?.8i ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. II. (P E C H A M.) [Most of these notes are taken from the valuable review of this volume by Father Livarius Oliger, O.F.M., in Archiv. Franc. Hist. iv., 147-152.] BlBLIOGRAPHY. P. 2. Super Magisirum Sententiarum. The Catalogue of the Library of the Friars Minor at ' Siena, drawn up in 1481, contained : Opus Joannis de Checcano super quatuor libros sententiarum ' (cf. Papini, LEtruria Francescana, Siena, 1797, 137). Probably Jo. de Pecham. P. 2. Add after 1. 25 : Summa de esse et essentia secundum l fratrem Johannem de pexano alias de piziano ; inc. Sensus mei penuria, temporis angustia et fratris instantia cogit '. MS. : Bibl. Angelica, 560 (fol. 1 14-5), at Rome (sec. xv.). P. 3, 1. 14. Bibl. Civit. MS. 203, at Angers, ff. 41-47, closely resembling Merton Coll. MS. 96, ff. 262-270. cod. P. 5. Formula Confessionum. —Add : MS. Bibl. Regia Lat. 14625, at Munich (attributed to Jo. Rigaud). P. 6. Canticumpauperis. —Add : MS. formerly Phillipps 12290, f. 25, now in possession of A. G. Little. P. 7. Vita S. Antonii Patavensis.—Delete the following lines and read : This has not been identified. The ascription to Pecham of the Life contained in a MS. in the library of the Capuchins at Lucerne (by Pere L. de Cherance, (1) ' 2 ADDITIONS ANfD CORRECTIOxNS TO VOL. II. Vie de Saint Antoine de Padoue, Paris, 1894, and by Pere Hilaire, Saint Antoine de Padoue, sa legende primitive, Geneva, 1890) is incorrect. See L. de Kerval, 5. Antonii de Padua Vitae duae (Paris, 1904), 5-6, 16- 17, 196. P. 8, 1. 22. Other translations (Italian and German) of the Philomela are mentioned in Arch. Franc. Hist. iv., p. 148. P. 8. Defensio Fratrum Mendicantium. — Add : MS. Corpus Christi Coll. 177, f. 198 (sec. xvi.), at Cambridge (anon.). P. 11. De Oculo Morali. — ln a MS. (sec. xiv.), formerly Phillipps, now in the Rylands Library at Manchester, this is ascribed to Pecham in a fifteenth century hand. P. 11. Last line.—Add: or by William de Pagula. P. 12. Addenda. —Another letter of Pecham's is contained in Oxford Univ. Archives, Twyne MS. XXII., 166. Last line—Add after Angers : a few lines only, near ' the end of the volume ; inc. Qui audit me non confunde- tur. Verba ista scripta sunt in Ecclesiastico. Tractatus Pauperis. P. 1. 35, 8. Papiam. —Add note : Papias Vocabulista, Lexicon Catholicum (Venet. 1496), s.v. 'Possidet \ P. I. After 'Gaufridus' 40, 24. add 'titulo' ; and in note 15 read : Goffredus de Trano (f 1245) Summa super rubricis Decretalit&m, tit. 33, lib. I Decret. Greg. IX. P. 8i,l. 18. For 'lupi' read 'lippi' (cf. Horace, Sat. L, vii., 3). Defensio. P. 153, 1. 1. Lines 258-264, 269-271, 277-280, contain refer- ences to the Epistola Concordiae inter Fratres Ord. Praed. et Ord. Min. Johannis a Parma et Humberti de Romanis, dated 2 Feb. 1255 (ed. Reichert, Mon. Ord. Praed. Hist., v. 25-31). The poem was therefore written after this date. P. 175, margin. For Religio read Mundus. — CONTENTS. COMPENDIUM STUDII THEOLOGIAE : Edited by Hastings Rashdall, D.Litt, D.C.L., Fellow and Lecturer of New College, Oxford, Canon Residentiary of Hereford, Fellow of the British Academy. PAGE Introduction ... ... ... ... ... ... i Pars I. —Prologus 25 Cap. i. De communicatione sapientiae liberali 26 Cap. ii. De causis generalibus humanorum errorum 28 Pars II. —Prologus 34 Cap. i. De ratione significandi generali ... 38 Cap. ii. De significatione vocis in particulari quoad quatuor ... ... ... 42 Cap. iii. De connotatis [et cointellectis per res quibus nomina inponuntur] ... 46 Cap. iv. Duo principia logice et metaphysice exponit ... ... ... ... 52 Cap. v. De hoc quod vox potest cadere a sua significatione ... ... ... 59 Cap. vi. De equivocis et analogicis ... ... 64 — 1 vi CONTENTS PAGE Appendix : List of Roger BacorTs Works ... ... ... 71 Compiled by A. G. Little, M.A., Lecturer in Palaeography in the University of Man- chester. Addenda ... M 1 1 Initia Operum ... 113 — INTRODUCTION. The treatise here printed is found in Royal MS. 7 F. vii. in the British Museum, a folio vellum MS., written at the end of the thirteenth century. On page 1 3 of the volume in which it " is included is the following (erased) inscription : Iste liber est de ordine fratrum minorum concessu W. Herebert qui eum ad ordinem procuravit". The MS. (with 7 F. viii., which also contains writings of Roger Bacon) was in the Lumley Library, and afterwards came into the possession of Prince Henry's chaplain, John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester (1641 -50), whose name occurs in a note (7 F. vii. fol. 46), and thence into the Theyer collection. It bears the name of John Theyer, with date 165 1. A MS. belonging to University College (No. 47) is a transcript of this MS. made by Prideaux. He has sometimes dealt freely with his text, and occasionally omits passages which he found it difficult to read. My text is that of the Royal MS. (R.), except where I have noted the fact that I have adopted the reading of the University College MS. (O.) or have altered it conjecturally. The MS. is in places very much contracted and hard to read. It was evidently written by a scribe who very imperfectly followed what he was writing. The MS. contains the following works : (1) Pars Quarta Compendii Studii Theologie (i.e. the sec- tions on mathematics and geography which now make part of part iv. of Roger Bacon's Opus Majus as printed by Bridges). (2) Tractatus de Visu et Speculis (a fifteenth-century title), [probably not by Bacon]. (3) A Letter of Henry of Southwark to , Bishop of Constantia (? Coutances) on Optical Problems. (4) Tractatus de Corporibus Celestibus (fifteenth-century title) v VOL. III. 1 — 2 INTRODUCTION 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) De Laudibus Mathematice (fifteenth-century title) another revision of what occurs in No. I (above) and in part iv. of Opus Majus. (6) The present work. " (7) 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 Introduc- tion 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) Another Baconian fragment on Communia Naturalia. chapters (9) A fragmentary and very corrupt copy of 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 Communia Naturalia in art. (8) 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 dis- putation, 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, improb- able 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." I do not venture to express an opinion as to the com- INTRODUCTION 3 plicated questions here raised. I shall not attempt to settle which fragments belong to the proposed Compendium Studii Theologie and which do not, or to determine their order and mutual relations. It is enough to say that what is here published is a fragment of an uncompleted work of which other fragments survive. From the work itself it is clear that it was written in A.D. 1292 (see below, p. 34). I will proceed to give some account of the contents, and then to make a few remarks upon their importance and signifi- cance. In order to make the summary fairly intelligible to readers who are not experts in scholastic philosophy, and to emphasize the essential points, I have not attempted to re- produce all the arguments adduced by Bacon in support of his various conclusions.