[2716] Printed as the Lapidary of Aristotle, Merseburg, 1473, p. 2.
[2717] See De la Ville de Mirmont, L’Astrologie chez les Gallo-Romains, Bordeaux, 1904; also published in Revue des Études anciennes, 1902, p. 115-; 1903, p. 255-; 1906, p. 128-.
[2718] Goujet (1737), p. 50; cited by C. Jourdain (1838), pp. 28-9.
[2719] HL IV, 274-5; V, 182-3; VI, 9-10.
[2720] Palat. Lat. 487, fol. 40, opening, “Nouo et insolito siderum ortu infausta quaedam uel tristitia potius quam laeta uel prospera miseris uentura significari mortalibus pene omnia ueterum aestimauit auctoritas.”
[2721] HL VII, 137.
[2722] Ernest Wickersheimer, Figures médico-astrologiques des neuvième, dixième et onzième siècles, in Transactions of the Seventeenth International Congress of Medicine, Section XXIII, History of Medicine, London, 1913, p. 313 et seq. I have not seen A. Fischer Aberglaube unter den Angelsachsen, Meiningen, 1891, or M. Förster, Die Kleinlitteratur des Aberglaubens im Altenglischen, in Archiv. f. d. Studium d. Neuer. Sprachen, vol. 110, pp. 346-58.
[2723] Charles Singer, Studies in the History and Method of Science, Oxford, 1917, Plate XV, opposite p. 40, reproduces this illumination. The MS, BN 7028, seems to have once belonged to the abbey of St. Hilary at Poitiers.
[2724] Besides those in France mentioned by Wickersheimer may be noted two of the tenth century at Munich: CLM 18629, fol. 105, “Tabula cosmica cum nominibus ventorum, germanicorum quoque”; CLM 18764, fols. 79-80, “Schema de genitura mundi.” Also Vatic. Lat. 645, 9th century, fol. 66, Ventorum imagines et in circulo Adam in medio ferarum; fol. 66v, Planetarum figura. This same MS contains a conjuration written in a later hand of the eleventh or twelfth century: fol. 4v, “In nomine patris.... Tres angeli ambulaverunt in monte....”
For such an astrological diagram in an Arabic work of the tenth century see E. G. Browne (1921), 117-8.