Roger Bacon (1214-1294)
Note
AO The reference is probably to a list of pieces by Roger Bacon which were found among Thomas Allen’s MSS. Langbaine’s draft of it is found in MS. Langbaine 7, p. 393: see Clark’s Wood’s Life and Times, iv. 253.
Notes
321Roger Bacon, friar ordinis <S. Francisci>:—Memorandum, in Mr. Selden’s learned verses before Hopton’s Concordance of yeares, he speakes of friar Bacon, and sayes that he was a Dorsetshire gentleman. There are yet of that name in that countie, and some of pretty good estate. I find by... (which booke I have) that he understood the making of optique glasses; where he also gives a perfect account of the making of gunpowder, vide pag... ejusdem libri.
322Friar Roger Bacon:—Dr. Gerard Langbain had a CatalogueAO of all his workes, which Catalogue Dr. <Thomas> Gale, schoolmaster of Paule’s, haz now.