[143] Romanus de Higuera, a very doubtful authority.
[144] This village gave name to another Moorish writer, Abu Gafar Ahmed ben Abd-el-Rahman ben Mohammed, also surnamed el Bitraugi. He died in 1147 and his fame survives as that of the author of an encyclopedia of science.
[145] For the unfavourable judgment of Mirandola on this astronomer, see infra, p. [143].
[146] See the excellent account in Munk.
[147] Recherches, p. 133.
[148] These are Ancien Fonds 7399 and Fonds de Sorbonne 1820.
[149] ‘Qui vivit in aeternum per tempora.’
[150] There is a copy in the Barberini library (ix. 25 in fol. chart. saec. xv.) which reads ‘cum abuteo len̄ite.’ Another at Paris, MSS. lat. 1665 (olim Sorbonicus) has ‘c. Abuteo Levite.’ It would be rash to conjecture the sense of this curious phrase. It is evidently a sign of time, and perhaps astrological.
[151] The Barberini MS. (ix. 25) gives 1221 as the date of the version, but the consensus of the other copies shows this to be a mistake. Almost all the MSS. mention that the work was done at Toledo.
[152] See the references made to this work of Scot by Albertus Magnus and Vincent of Beauvais.