[183] The doctrine of spontaneous generation, common among the Arabian Philosophers, and specially taught by Ibn Tofail.

[184] This is a notable saying which may well have given rise to the legend of a book De Tribus Impostoribus. It was certainly one of the foeda dicta blamed by Albertus Magnus.

[185] St. Mark, vi. 54 memb. saec. xiv. The De Substantia Orbis is said to have been completed by Averroës in Morocco in 1178.

[186] Also Fondo Vaticano, 2089, p. 1, with commentary by Alfarabius.

[187] This title recalls a passage in the De Anima of Averroës as reproduced by Pendasius: ‘Si intellectus esset numeratus ad numerum individuorum, esset aliquod hoc (i.e. aliquod particulare) determinatum, corpus aut virtus in corpore. Si hoc esset, esset quid intellectum potentia.’

[188] No. 620. See Cat. Gen. des Bibl. des Dep. vol. iii. Paris, 1855.

[189] See ante, p. [125].

[190] Colophon to cod. lxxix. 18 of the Laurentian Library.

[191] See ante, p. [59].

[192] Opus Tertium, Master of the Rolls ed. p. 91.