[73] See the MS. of the Laurentian Library, p. lxxxviii. cod. 24.
[74] By transposition ‘G. de Valentia vere civitatis,’ etc. (Bibl. Naz. Flor. xxv. 10, 632); by corruption ‘vere de violentia’ (Barberini MS.), or ‘grosso pontifici’ (Fondo Vaticano, 5047). This bishop has not yet been identified.
[75] MSS. of the Secreta Secretorum are found in Florence, Bibl. Naz., xxv. 10, 632, chart. saec. xv.; Bibl. Laur. (S. Crucis) xv. sin. 9; Rome, Fondo Vaticano, 5047; Oxford, Bibl. Bod. Can. Misc., 562; Troyes and St. Omer, v. Cat. MSS. des Depart., vol. ii. pp. 517, 518, and iii. 295; Berne, v. Sinner’s Cat., vol. iii. p. 525. It is interesting to note that the title of this last MS. is Physionomia, just as the Physionomia of Scot is called De Secretis in the editions of 1584 and 1598. This confirms the relation between his work and that of Philippus Clericus. MSS. of the Italian version of the Secreta Secretorum are found at Florence, Bibl. Riccard., Q. I. xxii. 1297; R. I. xx. 2224; L. I. xxxiv. 108. The first of these is dated 1450. In the Bibl. Naz., Florence, there is another, and a similar one of the Physionomia Aristotelis. In the Chigi Library of Rome there is a MS., chart. saec. xvii., with the curious title: ‘Migel franzas, auctor obscurioris nominis, ad Physionomiam Aristotelis Commentarium.’ It is numbered E. vi. 205, and consists of 326 pages. The Secreta Secretorum with the De Mineralibus was printed at Venice (? 1501), by Bernardinus de Vitalibus, and a new version by G. Manente, comprehending the Morals and the Physionomia as well as the Secreta, issued from the same place in 1538. It was printed in 4to by Tacuino da Trino.
[76] MSS. of the Physionomia: Oxford, Bibl. Bod. MSS. Canon. Misc. 555 (with the Liber Particularis) saec. xiv.; Milan, Bibl. Ambros. L 92 sup. (with the Liber Particularis); Padua, Bibl. Anton. xxiii. 616, chart. saec. xvii; Vatican, Fondo della Regina 1151 perhaps saec. xvi. Printed editions: 1477 perhaps double; 1485 Louvain and Leipsic; 1499 s. l. and five or six others of this century in 4to, s. l. et a.; 1508 Cologne, Venice, and Paris, the last in 8vo; 1514 Venice 8vo; 1515 s. l.; 1519 Venice 8vo; 1584 Lyons 24mo along with the Abbreviatio Avicennae and the De animalibus ad Caesarem under the general title of De Secretis Naturae; 1598 Lyons, De Secretis Naturae cum tractatu De Secretis Mulierum Alberti Magni; 1615 Frankfort 8vo; 1655 and 1660 Amsterdam 12mo. Editions of the Italian version appeared at Venice in 1533, 8vo, and 1537. During the sixteenth century an edition of the Latin text in 8vo appeared from the press of Pietro Gaudoul without date.
[77] Histoire Littéraire de la France. The list given above will show that this statement rather falls short of the truth than exceeds it.
[78] See Ticknor’s History of Spanish Literature, p. 395.
[79] Recherches sur l’âge et l’origine des trad. latines d’Aristote, Paris, 1843, chap. iii. passim.
[80] The bones of Aristotle were said to lie in the Mosque of Palermo, where they were highly reverenced. See Charles III. of Naples, by St. Clair Baddeley, London, 1894, p. 122.
[81] Notices et extraits des Mss., vol. vi. p. 412.
[82] Die Uebersetz. Arabischer Werke, Göttingen, 1877, p. 99.