[193] Compendium Studii, p. 467. The De Plantis is found at p. 83 of MS. Fondo Vaticano 4087.
[194] Namely the novel called Il Paradiso degli Alberti (Bologna, Wesseloffsky, 1867, vol. ii. pp. 180-217), and No. xx. of the Cento Novelle Antiche (Testo Borghiniano).
[195] Inferno, xx. 115, 116.
[196] The faja still worn in Spain is a direct survival of this custom.
[197] According to ecclesiastical reckoning; the direction of the altar being taken as eastward. The [frontispiece] reproduces part of this fresco.
[198] See infra, [chap. ix].
[199] The fact that Averroës himself is painted on the opposite wall holding in his hand the Great Commentary seems highly to increase the probability that the figure here described was meant for Michael Scot, the recognised interpreter of that forbidden philosophy. Averroës occupies a similar position in Orgagna’s fresco in the Campo Santo of Pisa.
[200] Scot reckoned twelve signs in augury answering to the twelve celestial houses. Six came from the right hand: Fernova, fervetus, confert, amponenth, scimasarnova, scimasarvetus; and six from the left: Confernova, confervetus, viaram, harenan, scassarnova, scassarvetus. See the Physionomia, chap. lvi.
[201] Unless indeed these, or some of them, should prove to be merely detached fragments of the Liber Introductorius itself, like those at Milan, Padua, and Rome. See ante, p. [27].
[202] No. 1091. It is perhaps the same as the Astrologorum Dogmata, which appears in the lists of Bale and Pitz.