Roger Bacon — Hereford, Herefordshire. Franciscan convent.
| Provenance: | Hereford, Herefordshire. Franciscan convent. |
| Location: | British Library, London |
| Shelfmark: | Royal 7 F.viii |
| Author/Title: | Roger Bacon |
| Type of evidence: | i: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership) |
| Notes on evidence: | "Iste liber est de ordine fratrum minorum concessus fratri Willelmo Herbert as usum quem librum ipse pro ordine procurauit. Qui eius usum habuerit oret pro anima dicti fratris. Hunc librum ... Minorum H ..." (fol. 47r; cf. fol. 13r, erased). |
| Date: | s. xiii ex. |
| Ownership: | This MS. and Royal 7 F.vii were in the Lumley Library, but came into the hands of Prince Henry's chaplain, John Prideaux, bp. of Worcester (1641–50), and thence into the Theyer collection. |
| Notes: | For W. Herbert see A.G. Little, EHR 49 (1934) pp. 301–302, where the inscr. on fol. 13r is quoted. Marginal notes by W. Herbert. |