[1322] Ibid. 59; he writes in 1267, ‘Nam per viginti annos quibus specialiter laboravi in studio sapientiae, neglecto sensu vulgi,’ &c.
[1323] Ibid.: this seems almost incredible; the Parisian libra at this time appears, from Paucton and Le Blanc, to have been a sum of 20 solidi, not (as Plumptre asserts) ‘a silver coin about the size of the more modern franc.’
[1324] See Part I, chapter vii.
[1325] Op. Ined. 325. A. of Hales died 1245.
[1326] Charles, p. 10; Op. Ined. p. 74.
[1327] Opus Majus, p. 190 (edition of 1750).
[1328] Hist. Reg. Angl. p. 82.
[1329] Op. Ined. p. 7, ‘famam studii quam retroactis temporibus obtinui.’ His name does not occur in the list of masters of the Friars Minors at Oxford; a note appended to that list says, that ‘according to other chronicles the fourth master is not mentioned here nor have I elsewhere found his name.’ Mon. Franc. I, 552; Phillipps MS. 3119, fol. 76. May not this have been Roger Bacon? That his name should be suppressed is not to be wondered at. (The Reg. of Friars Minors at London adds after the name of John of Parma, General Minister, 1247-1256: ‘Hic etiam scripsit fratri Rogero Bakon tractatum qui incipit, “Innominato magistro.”’ This treatise usually ascribed to Bonaventura is really addressed to a secular.)
[1330] Op. Ined. p. 7; Charles, 24-25.
[1331] See below.