[248] Muratori, Op. cit. ix. pp. 128 B, 670; and xiv. p. 1095. Other forms of this word are cerebrerium, celeberium or cerobotarium. It is of course derived from cerebrum, and the English equivalent would be brainpiece.
[249] See the Epistolarium of Petrus de Vineis. Jourdain reprints this letter with a French translation in his Recherches, pp. 156-162.
[250] In 1224.
[251] Frederick sought at Bologna for scholars to fill the chairs in Naples.
[252] Martenne, ‘Vett. scriptt. et Monumenta,’ ii. 1220.
[253] Opus Majus, pp. 30, 37, ed. Jebbi. ‘Tempore Michaelis Scoti, qui, annis 1230 transactis, apparuit, deferens librorum Aristotelis partes aliquas de naturalibus et mathematicis, cum expositoribus sapientibus, magnificata est Aristotelis philosophia apud Latinos.’
‘Veridicus Vates Michael, haec pauca locutus,
Plura locuturus obmutuit, et, sua mundo
Non paciens archana plebescere, jussit