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  1. According to the website “Escutchions of Science” (http:// http://www.numericana.com/ arms/
    bacon.htm), Roger and Francis Bacon, although distantly related, belonged to the same distin-
    guished Norman family.

  2. In Precationes ad Deiparam, in Opp. Graec. Lat., III, 524– 537.

  3. Sedulius “Carmen paschale,” II, 28– 31, trans. Rev. See Koehler, Theodore A.  (SM),
    Christian Symbolism of the Rose (http:// campus.udayton.edu/ mary/ rosarymarkings36.html)

  4. Winston- Allen, Stories of the Rose.

  5. http:// campus.udayton.edu/ mary/ index.html

  6. Paradiso 2 3 : 7 3 – 74.

  7. The Marian Library of the University of Dayton has in its possession rare books of the
    eighteenth century with engravings by the renowned Augsburg artist, Josef Sebastian Klauber
    (ca. 1700– 68). The highly symbolic and illustrative reproductions are typical of the Baroque
    period.

  8. Seaton, B. (1989), Towards a historical semiotics of literary flower personification. Poetics
    To d a y 10(4):679– 701.

  9. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, which begins, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,”
    parodies poems with lavish comparisons like Campion’s. Such poems were very popular at
    the time.

  10. In the Indian Vedic Hymn, “Ode To a Black Bee,” perhaps dating to the first mil-
    lennium BCE, the black bee is also portrayed as the paramour of flowers. See Srimad
    Bhagavata Mahapurana (1971), 10th Canto, Discourse XLVII; C.  L. Goswandi, Gita Press,
    Gorakhpur, India.

  11. Ovid (2004), Fasti V, trans. A. J. Boyle, 193 ff. Penguin Classics.

  12. Burnett, C.  (1998), Adelard of Bath, Conversations with His Nephew. Cambridge
    University Press.

  13. Bacon was under the impression that De Plantis was Aristotle’s lost treatise on plants.

  14. Roger Bacon (1996), Communia Naturalium (~1268), in A. C. Crombie, ed., The History
    of Science from Augustine to Galileo. Dover.

  15. Easton, S. C. (1952), Roger Bacon and His Search for a Universal Science: A Reconsideration
    of the Life and Work of Roger Bacon in the Light of His Own Stated Purposes. Columbia
    University Press.

  16. Arber, A.  (1938), Herbals:  Their Origin and Evolution 1470– 1670 , second edition.
    Cambridge University Press.
    51. Ibid.

  17. Reeds, K. (1980), Albert on the Natural Philosophy of Plant Life, in J. A. Weisheipl, ed.,
    Albertus Magnus and the Sciences:  Commemorative Essays. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
    Studies, Toronto.

  18. Reeds, K. M. (1991), Botany in Medieval Renaissance Universities. Garland Publishing, Inc.

  19. Arber, Herbals.

  20. Reeds, Botany in Medieval Renaissance Universities.

  21. The Carthusian Order of enclosed monastics was founded by Saint Bruno. The name is
    derived from the Chatreuse Mountains in southeastern France, the site of the first Carthusian
    hermitage.

  22. Although originally brought over from the New World by Columbus, maize reached Central
    Europe via the Middle East and its true origin was soon forgotten. Hence, it came to be known

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