Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi ...

The Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi, published in 1909 by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, represents a significant milestone in the early 20th-century effort to recover and analyze the scientific corpus of the medieval philosopher Roger Bacon. This particular volume, edited by Robert Steele, was part of a larger, ambitious editorial undertaking intended to make Bacon’s complex theological and scientific manuscripts available to the modern academic community for the first time.

The design of this edition reflects the scholarly rigor of the Oxford Clarendon Press during the Edwardian era, utilizing a sober, traditional aesthetic intended to convey the weight and authority of the medieval source material. By organizing Bacon's previously unpublished works into a cohesive series, the editors sought to reposition his contributions within the history of science, ultimately receiving positive reception from philologists and historians of philosophy for its meticulous transcription and dedication to textual accuracy.