[2300] III, 17.
[2301] First published by Joachim Camerarius about 1571.
[2302] Published with Palladius by Sir Edward Bisse in 1665; MSS are numerous.
[2303] From this same MS Pfister published the Letter to Aristotle and other treatises mentioned above.
[2304] Its influence would therefore seem to have been upon the later prose romances and not upon French vernacular poetry. Known at first only in Italy and Germany, its popularity became general in western Europe toward the close of the middle ages.
[2305] Harleian 527, fols. 47-56.
[2306] Amplon. Quarto 12, fols. 200-201; presumably it includes only those chapters concerned with Nectanebus.
[2307] CUL 1429 (Gg. I, 34), 14th century, No. 5, 35 fols. Also in CU Trinity 1041, 14th century, fols. 200v-212v, “De Nectanabo mago quomodo magnum genuerit Alexandrum. Egipti sapientes....”
[2308] NH XXXVI, 14 and 19.
[2309] De anima, cap. 57, in Migne, PL II, 792.