SOURCE: "Roger Bacon and Philology," in Roger Bacon Essays Contributed by Various Writers on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of His Birth, edited by A. G. Little, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1914, pp. 101-51.
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