An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot

by J. Wood Brown

INDEX

• Abbreviatio Avicennae, [53-59], [66], [152], [177], [178].
• Abd-el-Mumen, [112].
• Aboasar, [101], [143].
• Abraxas gems, [132].
• Abrincensis, Henry, [164], [176].
• Achinas, [31].
• Alain de l’Isle, [195].
• Alamout, Castle of, [147].
• Albategni, [100].
• Albertus Magnus, [78], [127], [143], [185].
• Albigenses, [109], [111].
• Albigensian Crusade, [111], [112], [193].
• Alchemy, [65-95].
• ⸺ Disputes concerning, [73], [259].
• Alexander the Great, [32], [33].
• ⸺ Legend of, [187-189].
• Alexandria, [32], [69].
• Alfarabi, [129].
• Al Faquir, [49], [118].
• Alfargan, [101].
• Algebra and Magic, [100], [190-192].
• Al Khowaresmi, [100].
• Al Kindi, [71], [73], [74], [79].
• Almagest, [98].
• Al Mamun, [100].
• Al Mansour, [112].
• Almuchabola, [190], [192], [270].
• Alpetrongi, [99-105], [124].
• Alphagirus or Al Faquir, [49], [118].
• Alphonso of Castile, [112], [143].
• Ambassador, Scot as an, [169-175], [218].
• Andrew, Scot’s interpreter, [119].
• Anonymous Florentine, The, [8], [210], [211].
• Apologie des Grands Hommes, [222].
• Aquinas, S. Thomas, [204].
• Arabic known to Scot, [24].
• Arabs, their influence, [42-45].
• ‘Archelaus,’ Alchemy of, [82], [83].
• Archimedes, [67].
• Aristotle, [33], [46], [47], [107], [129].
• ⸺ Legend of, [187-189].
• Ars Aurifera, [77].
• Ars Notoria, [192], [195], [204].
• Arthurian Legend, The, [195-205].
• Assephae, Liber, [54], [235], [237].
• Astrologia of Scot, [141].
• Astrologorum Dogmata of Scot, [142].
• Astrology and Magic, [184], [189].
• Astrology taught by Scot, [141], [142].
• Astronomia of Scot, [26], [27], [28], [40].
• Astronomy of the Arabs, [96-105].
• Avalon, [194-205].
• Avendeath, John, [35], [46], [53], [117-119], [235-239].
• Averroës, [vii], [106-110], [140], [185].
• Avicenna, [46], [47], [53], [54], [73], [74], [106], [129], [183], [235-239].
• Azarchel, [101], [103].
• Bacon, Roger, [5], [12], [13], [14], [16], [118], [126], [135], [136], [145], [174], [175], [183], [185], [192], [195].
• Baconthorpe, John, [15].
• Baldi, Bernardino, [vii-ix].
• Balwearie, Scotts of, [9].
• Bartholomew of Messina, [38].
• Benefice sought for Scot, [157-163].
• Benvenuto da Imola, [210].
• Berwick, Bar of, [218].
• Bibliotheca of Manget, [77].
• Birth of Scot, when, [10]; where, [7-10].
• Boccaccio, [16], [211], [212].
• Boece, Hector, [222].
• Bologna, [16], [173], [174], [210].
• Bonacci, Leonardo, [148], [149].
• Bonatti, Guido, [6], [124].
• Book of Might, Scot’s, [203], [218], [221].
• Burgh-under-Bowness, [221].
• Byzantine Alchemy, [83].
• Camperius, [153].
• Canterbury, Archbishop of, [158].
• Capitulum of Scot, [142].
• Cashel, Archbishopric, [160], [161].
• Castrensis, Robert, [75], [80].
• Catskin, the bewitched, [225-227].
• Cento Novelle Antiche, [197], [214].
• Cervilerium, The, [168].
• Character of Scot, [168], [169].
• Cheiromantia, The, [215].
• Circular Letter of Frederick II., [173].
• Compositiones ad Tingenda, [67].
• Constantia, Queen, [19].
• ⸺ Empress, [29], [111].
• Cordova, [106], [112-114], [132].
• ⸺ Magic at, [19], [114], [115], [169], [215], [216], [231-234].
• Courçon, Robert de, [110].
• Crates or Democritus, The Alchemy of, [33].
• Cronica dei Matematici, [viii], [ix].
• Crusades, [30], [156], [171], [172].
• Da Buti, Francesco, [211].
• Dante and his Commentators, [ix], [16], [138], [206-211].
• D’Avranches, Henry, [164], [176].
• De Alchimia of Scot, [88-94].
• De Aluminibus, [262], [264].
• De Anima, [125], [236].
• De Animalibus Avicennae, [236], [237].
• De Animalibus ad Caesarem, [48-53], [117].
• Death of Scot, [175-178].
• Decamerone, [212].
• De Causis, [132], [237].
• De Coelo et Mundo, [123], [235], [237].
• De Deo Benedicto, [132].
• Dee, Dr. John, [190].
• De Generatione, [126], [237].
• De Generatione Lapidum, [236].
• De Gestis Baldi, [215], [216].
• De Mineralibus, [73], [78], [79].
• Democritus, [72].
• Dempster, [6], [15], [152], [153], [216], [217], [221].
• De Partibus Animalium, [59], [60], [134].
• De Presagiis of Scot, [142].
• De Secretis, of Bacon, [209].
• Despondency of Scot, [163-170].
• De Substantia Orbis, [126], [237].
• De Tribus Impostoribus, [130], [131], [186], [203].
• De Urinis, [20], [153].
• Dioscorides, [155].
• Dittamondo, The, [207], [208].
• Doxopatros, [163].
• Dress of Scot, [138-140].
• Dryburgh School, [11].
• Dunkeld, See of, [161], [162].
• Durham, [8], [11], [12].
• Education of Scot, [11-16].
• Eildon Hills, The, [10], [199], [200], [217].
• Elias, Fra, [90-92].
• El Mohdy, [198], [199].
• Emanuel, Alchemy of, [83-85].
• ⸺ Comnenus, [163].
• Erythræan Sibyl, the, [163].
• Es-Seémiya, [208-209].
• Essenes, [32].
• Étienne de Rheims, [124].
• Etna haunted, [194], [195].
• Eugenio, Admiral, [145], [164].
• Falsehope, Witch of, [219-221].
• Familiar Spirit, Scot’s, [217], [218].
• Fata Morgana, The, [195], [202], [203].
• Fazio degli Uberti, [207].
• Florentine tales of Scot, [222-227].
• Florian and Florete, [195].
• Folengo, Teofilo, [215], [218].
• Frederick I., [30], [196].
• ⸺ II., [18], [19], [20], [22], [29], [56], [57], [110-112], [116], [131], [137], [138], [144], [147], [150], [151], [167], [171-174], [186], [196-198], [212], [214], [218].
• Fresco at Florence, [139], [140], [203].
• Galienus, [83].
• Gazzali, [109].
• Geber, [72], [264].
• Geomancy, [190].
• Geomantia, The, [215].
• George of Antioch, [25], [83].
• Gerard of Cremona, [20], [46], [191], [215], [238].
• ⸺ Sabloneta, [115], [125], [126].
• Gervase of Tilbury, [194], [195].
• Giovacchino di Fiora, [164].
• Gipsies, The, [204], [205].
• Glamour, what, [208], [209].
• Grammar Schools of Scotland, [4], [11].
• Grave of Scot, where, [177].
• Greek, Scot’s knowledge of, [24], [38], [133-135].
• Gregory IX., [162], [163], [171], [172].
• Gundisalvus, Dominicus, [46], [53], [117-119], [236], [238].
• Guy, Bishop of Tripoli, [37].
• Hakim, Caliph, [112].
• Heisterbach, Cæsar von, [180], [195].
• Hemp used in Magic, [225].
• Henry of Colonia, [57], [177].
• Hermannus Alemannus, [5], [134].
• Hispalensis, Johannes, [34], [36], [143].
• Hispanus, Johannes, [35], [36].
• History of Animals, Aristotle’s, [38], [43-63].
• Ibn-Badja, [108].
• Ibn-Beithar, [95], [155], [260].
• Ibn-el-Bitriq, [34-36].
• Ibn-Moauia, [72-75].
• Ibn-Tofail, [100], [109].
• Images, Magic of, [216].
• Ittisal, The, [108], [109], [132].
• Jacopo della Lana, [211].
• Jacopone da Todi, [164].
• Joachim, Abbot, [197].
• Josephus, [32], [70].
• Kitab Alchefâ, The, [54], [235].
• Kyffhauser, The, [196].
• Landino, [210].
• Legend of Scot, [179-227].
• Leonardo Pisano, [190], [192].
• Lesley, [152].
• Liber Abbaci, [148], [149], [190], [192].
• Liber Dedali, [82], [84-86], [241-265].
• Liber duodecim Aquarum, [84-85].
• Liber Dyabesi, [85], [252].
• Liber Introductorius, of Scot, [27], [28], [40], [77], [97], [141], [142], [184].
• Liber Invidiosus, [85].
• Liber Lumen Luminum, [85].
• Liber Luminis Luminum, of Scot, [81-89], [240-268].
• Liber Particularis, of Scot, [27], [28], [40], [97].
• Logica, The, [235].
• Lucken Howe, The, [200].
• Lydgate’s version of the Secreta, [38].
• Maddalena’s Tales, [223-227].
• Magic, Arabian, [181-184].
• ⸺ Book ascribed to Scot, [191], [192], [270-274].
• ⸺ not impossible, [179].
• ⸺ power, how obtained, [224], [225].
• ⸺ Schools of, [180], [184].
• ⸺ Scot familiar with, [184].
• ⸺ Tales of, [180].
• Magician, Was Scot a, [184].
• ⸺ Why Scot called a, [185-193].
• Magisterium, what, [90].
• Magisterium of Scot, [79], [80].
• Magna Grecia, [24].
• Maimonides, [132].
• Manuel Comnenus, [83].
• Mappae Clavicula, [67], [68].
• Mar Iannos, [72], [75].
• Martorana, Library of the, [25], [83].
• Master, Scot’s title of, [14], [19], [22], [23], [233].
• Mathematician, Michael the, [13], [26].
• Mathematics, Scot’s studies in, [26].
• Maugis, [223].
• Maugis and Vivien, [199].
• Mauritius Hispanus, [110].
• Medicine, [66], [149-156].
• Mengot, Master, [223-227].
• Merlin, [164], [199], [223].
• Merlin Coccajo, [215].
• Metaphysica, The, [126], [127], [235].
• Meteora, The, [36], [71], [73], [79], [126], [237].
• Mirandola, Pico della, [142], [143].
• Mohammed, [199].
• Monk’s Heath, tale of, [200-202].
• Moorish Libraries, [76].
• Morgana, The Fata, [195], [202], [203].
• Naples, A Legend of, [146], [147].
• Nationality of Scot, [5], [7].
• Natural History, The Arabian, [60-63].
• Naudé, [x], [222].
• Nectanebus, [187-189], [198].
• Nicolas Peripateticus, [108].
• Notitia Convinctionis of Scot, [142].
• Nova Ethica, [133].
• Oakwood Tower, [10], [219].
• Old Man of the Mountain, [147].
• Optica of Ptolemy, [145].
• Oxford, [12], [175].
• Palermo, [23], [25], [29], [30], [40], [41].
• Paradiso degli Alberti, [212].
• Paris, [13-15], [17], [174].
• ⸺ Council of, [109].
• ⸺ Tale of, [218], [219].
• Parma, Tale of, [214].
• Parva Naturalia, The, [125].
• Pascal compared with Scot, [169].
• Passavanti, Fra Jacopo, [203], [204].
• Patronage, Abuse of, [158].
• Pendasius, [132].
• Peter the Notary, [119].
• ⸺ of Toledo, [119].
• ⸺ the Venerable, [119].
• Philemon or Polemon, [31].
• Philip of Salerno, [37].
• ⸺ of Tripoli, [36], [37], [116], [157].
• Philippus Clericus, [19], [21], [36].
• Philopon, Johannes, [129].
• Physica, The, [126], [127].
• Physionomia of Aristotle, [38].
• ⸺ of Scot, [30-40], [51], [52].
• Picatrix, The, [183], [187], [216].
• Pillulae of Scot, [154], [155].
• Plague, The, [40], [41], [156].
• Plato, [130].
• Pliny, [252].
• Porphyry, [107].
• Proclus, [132].
• Prophecies of Scot, [163-168].
• ‘Province of Scotland,’ what, [8].
• Pseudo Boccaccio, The, [214].
• Ptolemy, [97-99], [101], [103], [143], [145].
• Publication of Scot’s Works, [169-175], [177], [178].
• Pulvis Dom. Fred., [154], [155].
• Quadrivium, The, [28].
• Quattrami, Fra Evangelista, [71].
• Quaestio Curiosa, The, [77], [78].
• Quaestiones Nicolai Peripatetici, [108], [127-132].
• Rases, [32], [65], [73], [74], [79], [80], [152], [262], [264].
• Raymon, Archbishop of Toledo, [45], [46], [53], [117].
• Rossetti, [222].
• Roxburgh School, [11].
• Sacrobosco, Johannes, [11], [145].
• Salerno, Philip of, [19], [20], [21], [23], [37].
• ⸺ School of, [150].
• Salimbene, his tale, [144].
• Saracens, The, [30], [198].
• Satchells, [176], [221], [222].
• Schmutzer, [x], [222].
• Scot, Bishop of Dunkeld, [161], [162].
• Scotland dislikes Rome, [159].
• ⸺ in the twelfth century, [1-5].
• ⸺ Magic in, [217].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [222].
• Scottish Grammar Schools, [4], [11].
• Scotus Erigena, [4], [7].
• Secreta Naturæ, [82-84], [89].
• Secreta Secretorum, [20], [25], [37].
• Seismometer, a, [147].
• Sergius of Resaina, [72].
• Sicily, Arthurian, [194].
• ⸺ Court of, [18], [40], [137].
• ⸺ Languages spoken in, [24], [25], [194].
• Signatures, Doctrine of, [31].
• Sirr-el-asrar, The, [32-38].
• Spain, Scot visits, [41].
• Specchio di Penitenza, [203], [204].
• Sphera, [98], [99].
• ⸺ of Sacrobosco, [ix], [145].
• Stephen of Bourbon, [195].
• ⸺ of Provins, [123], [124].
• Suppression of Scot’s Averroës, [141], [157].
• Tarasia, Queen of Spain, [35], [36].
• ‘Thales,’ Scot called, [214].
• Theatrum Chemicum, [77], [79].
• Themistius, [129].
• Theological studies and style of Scot, [14], [15], [50], [56], [89].
• Therapeutæ, The, [32], [33], [70].
• Thuringia, Bertolph of, [195].
• Tibbun, Samuel, [36].
• Toledo, [63], [64].
• ⸺ Schools of, [35], [45], [46], [54], [106], [115-123].
• ⸺ Astronomy at, [97], [98], [104].
• ⸺ Magic at, [187].
• Transformation a ruling idea, [80], [81].
• Tripoli, Bishop of, [37].
• ⸺ Philip of, [20], [21], [36], [37].
• Troubadours, The, [195], [196].
• Trouvères, The, [195].
• Tweed, The River, [218].
• Urine, Works on the, [20], [153].
• Vergilius, Romance of, [146].
• Vincent of Beauvais, [176], [185], [264].
• Vivien, [203].
• Volmar, Master, [178].
• Witchcraft, [182].
• Zosimus, [72].

FINIS.

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ERRATA

[Page 55, line 11.] For ‘mºcºcºx,’ read ‘mºccºx.’

[Page 81, note 1.] For ‘The term had not been previously used in theology,’ read ‘The term seems not to have been previously used in pure theology.’

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