A Michaele Scoto me percepisse recordor.
Qui fuit astrorum scrutator, qui fuit Augur,
Qui fuit Ariolus, et qui fuit alter Apollo.’
Poem of Henri d’Avranches in ‘Forschungen zur Deutschen Geschichte,’ xviii. (1878), p. 486.
[242] Vol. x. p. 105. See also the same vol., pp. 101 and 148.
[243] L. ii. xvii. 338, p. 183vo.
[244] Bibl. Univ. No. 1557, p. 43. This MS. is of the fifteenth century.
[245] ‘Chronica F. Salimbene,’ Parma 1857, pp. 176-177.
[246] Muratori, Op. cit. ix. 660 B.
[247] Similar deceitful prophecies are not uncommon in mediæval story. Walter Map in the De Nugis Curialium tells how Silvester II. was assured by his familiar spirit that he would not die till he had said Mass at Jerusalem. The prediction was fulfilled, however, when the Pope did so at the altar called ‘in Gerusalemme’ in one of the Roman Churches, and soon thereafter expired.