[213] 22 July 1232. See ‘Ann. Colon. Max.’ in Pertz, Scriptores Rei Germanicae, xvii. 843.
[214] ‘Physicorum motuum.’ The passage will be found in the De Utilitate Linguarum.
[215] This city was founded in 1067-68 by En-Nacer ben Alennas ibn Hammad, who made it his capital.
[216] MSS. of the Liber Abbaci are to be found in Florence, Bibl. Naz. i. 2616, iii. 25, and xi. 21. The first of these has been exactly reprinted by Boncompagni at Rome, 1857. Other MSS. are in the Boncompagni library, see Narducci’s Catalogue, Nos. 176 and 255. The most important work on the whole subject is ‘Della Vita e delle Opere di Leonardo Pisano,’ by Boncompagni, Rome, 1852.
[217] See infra, [chap. ix].
[218] The University Library of Genoa has an interesting MS. (F. vii. 10), written in Arabic by an African hand. It belonged, A. H. 483, to Judah ben Jaygh ben Israel, servant of Abu Abdallah Algani Billah, a Moor of Malaga. It contains medical works by Johannes ben Mesue, Rases, Alkindi, Geber, and others.
[219] For an account of the school of Salerno, see Sprengel, Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Artzneykunde; Carmoly, Histoire des Médecins Juifs, Bruxelles, 1844; and De Renai, Collectio Salernitana, Naples, 1852.
[220] The De Urinis. See ante, p. [20].
[221] Historia Ecclesiastica, xii. 495. Dempster professed at Pisa and Bologna between the years 1616 and 1625.
[222] This was Symphorien Champier, physician to Henry II. of France.