[274] _History of Classical Scholarship_ (1903) I, 515; _Illustrations of Medieval Thought_ (1884) p. 118. [275] EHR (1920) p. 331. [276] HL XII (1763) p. 261 _et seq._ [277] Berlin 193 (Phillips 1827), fol. 25v, “Proverbia.” [278] Indeed, the 15th century catalogue of that abbey lists one MS, 1482, which contains both the _Megacosmus_ and _Mathematicus_, with the treatise of Valerius to Rufinus on not getting married sandwiched in between. [279] Poole (1884) pp. 117-18. [280] _De mundi universitate_, II, 6, 10, “Caelum ipsum Deo plenum est.... Sua caelo animalia ignes siderei....” [281] _Ibid._, I, 3, 6-7, “Motus circuitus numina turba deum Dico deos quorum ante Deum praesentia servit.” Also II, 4, 39, “deos caelumque.” [282] _Ibid._, II, 6, 49, “Qui quia aeternae beatitudinis visione perfruuntur, ab omni distrahentis curae sollicitudine feriati in pace Dei quae omnem sensum superat conquiescunt.” [283] _De mundi universitate_, II, 4, 49-50. “Corpore iam posito cognata reibit ad astra Additus in numero superumdeus.” [284] _Ibid._, II, 6, 36-, “Participatenim angelicae creationis numerus cum siderum divinitate quod non moritur; cum homine, quod passionum affectibus incitatur.” [285] _Ibid._, II, 6, 92 _et seq._ [286] _De mundi universitate_, II, 6, 47-. [287] _Ibid._, I, 4, 5-. [288] _Ibid._, II, 1, 23-. [289] _Ibid._, I, 3, 33 _et seq._ [290] _De mundi universitate_, II, 4, 31-50; and II, 1, 30-32. [291] _Ibid._, II, 1, 33-35. “Parcarum leges et ineluctabile fatum Fortunaeque vices variabilis Quae sit in arbitrio res libera quidve necesse.” [292] HL VII (1746) p. 137. [293] C. Jourdain, _Dissertation sur l’état de la philosophie naturelle etc._, Paris, 1838, p. 116, note. [294] Migne, PL 171, 1446. Juno here stands for the planet Venus: see Hyginus II, 42, “Stella Veneris, Lucifer nomine, quam nonnulli Junonis esse dixerunt”; and other passages cited by Bouché-Leclercq, _L’Astrologie grecque_, 1899, p. 99, note 2. [295] J. B. Hauréau, _Les mélanges poétiques d’Hildebert_, 1882, pp. 138-47. In Digby 53, a poetical miscellany of the end of the 12th century, no author is named for the “De Ermaphrodito” nor for some other items which appear in the printed edition of Hildebert’s poems, although Hildebert’s name is attached to a few pieces in the MS. [296] Ashmole 345, late 14th century, fol. 64. Bodleian Auct. F. 3. 13, fol. 104v. For a summary of the MSS see Appendix I at the close of this chapter. [297] Digby 46, 14th century, fol. 1v, the first line is blue, the next red, etc. _An sors instabilis melius ferat ars docet eius_ _In septem stabis minus una petens numerabis_ _Post septem sursum numerando perfice cursum_ _Translator Bernardus Silvester_ _Hic infallibilis liber incipit autem peius._