Eius ut in tenues prodiret hanelitus auras.
Sic acusator fatorum fata subivit.’
Op. cit. verse 80 et seq.
[255] ‘History of the Rt. Hon. Name of Scot,’ in Lay of the Last Minstrel, Note W.
[256] The diploma is dated at Melfi on the 9th of August 1232. The colophon to the copy then made of the Abbreviatio Avicennae is as follows: ‘Completus est liber Avicenne de animalibus, scriptus per Magistrum Henricum Coloniensem, ad exemplar magnifici Imperatoris nostri Domini Frederici, apud Meffiam civitatem Apulie, ubi Dominus Imperator eidem Magistro hunc librum premissum commodavit, anno Domini MCCXXXII, in Vigilia Beati Laurentii, in domo Magistri Volmari medici Imperatoris.’ See Huillard-Bréholles, Hist. Diplom. Frid. II., vol. iv. part i. pp. 381-2.
[257] See this poem, canto xxv. oct. 42 and 259. Consult also Soldan, Magia Antica, and Storia dei Processi di Stregheria, and Conrad de Marburg.
[258] Illustrium Miraculorum, v. 4. See also i. 33 for another tale of the same kind.
[259] See Lenormant, La Magie Chaldéenne.
[260] See Wright’s Cat. of the Syriac MSS. in the British Museum. Iamblicus occurs in cod. dccxxix.
[261] I use this word in the general sense then given to it, which seems to indicate how little the Greek language was understood in those days.