[2590] Cantimpré’s citations of Adhelmus seem almost certainly drawn from the Aenigmata in the cases of Leo, ciconia, hirundinus, nycticorax, salamander, luligo (or, loligo), perna, draguntia lapis (natrix), myrmicoleon, colossus, and molossus. On the other hand, the citations concerning onocentaur do not correspond to the riddle De monocero sive unicorni; the two accounts of Scylla are different; and I do not find cacus or onager or harpy or siren or locust or the Indian ants larger than foxes in the Riddles as edited by Giles.
The passages in which Thomas of Cantimpré cites Adhelmus are printed together by Pitra (1855) III, 425-7.
[2591] Pitra (1855) III, xxvi. Only in the case of the salamander does Pitra say, “Thomas huc adduxit Adhelmi Shirbrunensis aenigma de Salamandra vatemque a philosopho clare distinxit.”
[2592] I have used the text in Migne, PL vol. 77.
[2593] Variarum IV, Epist. 22-23, Migne, PL 69, 624-25.
[2594] I derive the following facts from E. C. Quiggin, “Irish Literature,” in EB V, 622 et seq., where further bibliography is given.
[2595] “The Gaelic medical MSS, whether preserved in Ireland, Scotland, or elsewhere, ... are all, or nearly all, of foreign origin”:—Mackinnon, in the International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913, p. 413.
[2596] G. Flügel, Alkindi, genannt der Philosoph der Araber, ein Vorbild seiner Zeit, Leipzig, 1857.
F. Dieterici, Die Naturanschauung und Naturphilosophie der Araber im zehnten Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1861.
O. Loth, Al-Kindi als Astrolog. in Morgenländische Forschungen. Festschrift für Fleischer, Leipzig, 1875, pp. 263-309.