 Bacon remarks in the Opus tertium [OQHI], written c. 1267 that he had devoted forty years to study since he first learned the alphabetum and that no other scholar had worked as much in the Arts and Sciences as he. Some scholars use this text to argue that Bacon was writing about his elementary education and therefore that was born c. 1220 [Crowley (1950), Easton (1952), Lindberg (DMS, 1983)]; others hold that he was writing about his early university education – Alphabetum philosophiae is a term Bacon uses in the chapter from which the following cited text is taken – and thus that he was born c. 1214 [Little (RBE, 1914), Maloney (CSTM, 1988), Hackett (2016), Molland (2004)]. The text reads: