The Life & Work of Roger Bacon (1914) - Page 16

Contemporary events.	Statements resting on later authority.	Facts verified by Bacon's statement or by contemporary authority.
1274. Death of Bonaventura; Jerome of Ascoli becomes General of Franciscans. Death of Thomas Aquinas. 1280. Death of Albertus Magnus. 1288. Jerome of Ascoli becomes Pope Nicholas IV; Raymundo Galfredi succeeds him as General. 1292. Death of Nicholas IV.	1278. Imprisonment propter novitates suspectas (on account of suspected novelties), 1278. (See Summa Historialis of Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, a writer of the fifteenth century.) 1292. Release from prison probably 1292. Died 1292 or 1294. Buried in the Franciscan Church in Oxford. Legend as to the exposure of his writings to wind and weather told by Wood.	1266-7. Composition of Opus Majus, Opus Minus, Opus Tertium. 1268. Death of Clement IV. 1271. Writes the Compendium Studii Philosophiae, denouncing the corruptions of the Church. (See Brewer, p. liv.) 1292. Writes Compendium Studii Theologiae. See manuscript of this work (Br. M. Royal 7 F. vii, fol. 78).