The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe

by Lynn Thorndike

[30]. Compendium Studii, Rolls Series, vol. xv, pp. 421–422.

[31]. Bridges, Opus Maius, vol. i, pp. 253–269.

[32]. De Secretis, ch. 3, discusses this question of fascination and also the power of words and of the human soul. In regard to characters and incantations, see De Secretis, ch. 2, and the Opus Tertium, which is also contained in vol. xv of the Rolls Series, ch. 26.

[33]. Opus Tertium, ch. 27.

[34].

“Gaspar fert myrram, thus Melchoir, Balthasar aurum.

Haec tria qui secum portabit nomina regum

Solvitur a morbo Christi pietate caduco.”

Hist. Litt., vol. xxv, p. 327.

[35]. See Liber Mineralium. Opera Omnia, ed. Borgnet (1890), vol. v, page 23 et seq.