An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot

by J. Wood Brown

[113] Of Pannopolis, a chemist of the fourth century.

[114] 6514.

[115] Fondo Vaticano, 4428, p. 114. This treatise is the same as the De mineralibus published along with the De Secretis at Venice (? 1501) by Bernardinus de Vitalibus.

[116] Speciale MS. No. vi. See the work by Sac. I. Carini, Sulle Scienze Occulte nel Medio Evo, Palermo, 1872. ‘Kalid Rex’ was Khaled ben Yezid ibn Moauia, and ‘Morienus’ was Mar Jannos, his Syrian master.

[117] Gayangos, i. 8. Eighty thousand books are said to have been burned in the squares of Granada alone.

[118] In the editions of 1622 and 1659, Argentorati. It has been stated that the Quaestio Curiosa is a chapter taken from the Liber Introductorius of Michael Scot. The alternative title of that work, Judicia Quaestionum would seem to favour this idea, and may in fact have suggested it. But an examination of the Liber Introductorius (MS. Bodl. 266), which I have caused to be made, proves that the statement referred to is without foundation. It was advanced in a paper read before the Scottish Society of Antiquaries by Mr. John Small, and printed in their Proceedings, vol. xi. p. 179.

[119] See the [note to p. 75] supra.

[120] Inf. iv. 131.

[121] In the Theatrum of Zetzner there is a tract: ‘Aristoteles de perfecto Magisterio,’ and the Bibl. Naz. of Florence has a MS., ‘De Tribus Verbis,’ ascribed to the same author.

[122] Sic pro indagine, v. cod. xvi. 142 of the Bibl. Naz. Florence, where this treatise is given to Alfidius, i.e. Al Kindi. In it occur the significant words: ‘est (alchimia) de illa parte physice quae Metheora nuncupatur.’