⚠The text on this page is extremely faded and nearly illegible. The transcription below is recovered from the faint ghosted impressions of the printed text, supplemented by bibliographic identification of the work.

The following text is the title page of a scholarly edition published in 1920. The original page is severely faded, but the content identifies it as part of the primary collection of Roger Bacon’s previously unpublished manuscripts.

The Hitherto Unpublished Works of Roger Bacon

Fascicle V

THE SECRET OF SECRETS

WITH GLOSSES AND SHORT NOTES

A SHORT AND USEFUL TREATISE

FOR EXPLAINING CERTAIN OBSCURE PASSAGES

BY BROTHER ROGER

NOW EDITED FOR THE FIRST TIME

ROBERT STEELE

ACCOMPANIED BY

AN ENGLISH VERSION EDITED FROM THE ARABIC

BY PHILIP OF TRIPOLI?

A FRAGMENT OF AN OLDER VERSION?

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1920