Lot 445
Bacon, Roger
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Opus majus ad Clementem quartum, pontificem Romanum. Ex MS Codice Dubliniensi, cum aliis quibusdam collato, nunc primum edidit S.Jebb. London: typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1733. First edition, folio, titlepage in red and black, folding table and two plates, contemporary mottled, rebacked, joints split, edges rubbed, titlepage and last leaf a little dusty, marginal tear in p. 123 (no loss), some internal stains
Footnote
Note: Dibner 76; Norman 99; Thorndike II, pp. 616-691
The first appearance in print of Bacon's principal scientific work, and one of the most important works of medieval science, written in 1266-1267. Jebb published the manuscript at Trinity College the most complete then known, containing six parts - a seventh part was later discovered but not published until 1860.