AVERROES (d. 1217). Moorish commentator on Aristotle.
AVICEBRON (d. 1070), OR IBN GEBIROL. A Spanish Jew. Author of the FONTIS VITA. A work translated by Gundisalvi, of the greatest influence on the Metaphysic of the Middle Age. See MUNCK, MÉLANGES.
AVICENNA (980-1036). An Arab physician, and commentator on Aristotle.
AYMON, OR HAYMON (d. 1244). An English Franciscan, afterwards General of the Order, who revised the breviary and rubrics.
BASIL (329-379). In HEXAMERON.
BEDE (673-735). The work by which he was best known in the thirteenth century was not his History but the works on the Calendar, etc.
BELETH, JOHN (before 1165). A French writer on ecclesiastical matters.
BERNARD (1091-1153).
BESTIARIUM. A collection of early myths on animals; of Eastern origin.
There are many different forms of this work. All are founded on
Physiologus.
BOETHIUS (470-526). His treatise on arithmetic is the work quoted here. His "Consolation" was almost unknown in the early Middle Age, his popularity resting on his translations of Aristotle and his treatises on Music and Arithmetic, the latter being a very important work in the history of the science.