[2768] BN 7299A, 12th century, fol. 37v.
[2769] For further information on this point see Budge, Egyptian Magic, 1899, pp. 225-8; Webster, Rest Days, 1916, pp. 295-7.
[2770] Webster (1916), pp. 300-301, however, speaks of 30 in a 14th century MS, 32 in an English MS of Henry VI’s reign, and 31 in another 15th century MS.
[2771] Cited by Bouché-Leclercq, L’Astrologie grecque, 1899, pp. 485-6, 623.
[2772] De proprietatibus rerum, 1488, Lindelbach, Heidelberg, IX, 20. This is not to say, however, that they always appear in medieval calendars; I did not find them in any of the 14th and 15th century calendars from Apulia and Iapygia published by G. M. Giovene, Kalendaria vetera, Naples, 1828. His calendars consist of little save saints’ days, although in some of them the beginning of dog-days is marked and when the sun enters each sign of the zodiac.
[2773] “Black earth” was the name given by the Egyptians to their country.
[2774] Imago mundi, II, 109.
[2775] Speculum naturale, XVI, 83, printed by Anth. Koburger, Nürnberg, 1485.
[2776] HL 25, 329. My impression is that some medieval astronomers also denied to these Egyptian days any astrological importance, since they always came upon the same days of the months without reference to the phases of the moon or courses of the other planets: but I cannot put my hand on such passages.
[2777] And is approvingly cited to that effect by Arnald of Villanova, Regulae generales curationis morborum. Doctrina IV.