A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our EraThorndike, Lynn
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era
Thorndike, Lynn
Magic -- History; Science -- History
Arundel 377, 13th century, well-written small quarto, fols.
88-103, “Philosophia magistri danielis de merlai ad iohannem
Norwicensem episcopum ... / ... Explicit liber de naturis
inferiorum et superiorum.” Until very recently this was
supposed to be the only MS of Daniel’s sole extant work.
No other treatise has as yet been identified as his, but
several other MSS may be noted of the whole or parts of the
aforesaid “Philosophia” or “Liber de naturis inferiorum et
superiorum.”
Corpus Christi 95, 13th century, where, according to K.
Sudhoff in the publication noted below, the first two or
three books ascribed to William of Conches are really the
work of Daniel of Morley.
Berlin Latin Quarto 387, 12th century, 51 fols. Attention
was called to it by Birkenmajer in the publication noted
below. It has many slips of copyists and is regarded by him
as neither the original nor a direct copy thereof. For the
MS to be written in the twelfth century this would require
a very rapid multiplication and dissemination of Daniel’s
treatise which was at the earliest not composed until after
1175.
The remaining MSS have not hitherto been noted by writers on
Daniel:
CUL 1935 (Kk. I. 1), 13th century, small folio, fols.
98r-105r (and not to 115r, as stated in the MSS catalogue,
which gives Daniel Morley as the author, but _De creatione
mundi_ as the title). From rotographs of fols. 98r-v, 100r,
and 105r, I judge that this copy is almost identical with
Arundel 377 but somewhat less legible and accurate.
Oriel 7, 14th century folio, fols. 194v-196v (191-193,
according to Coxe), extracts from _De philosophia Danielis_,
opening, “Nos qui mistice.”... They are immediately preceded
by extracts from “Adelardi Bathoniensis ... de decisionibus
naturalibus.”
Corpus Christi 263, early 17thI’ll sp century, fols.
166v-67r, “Ex Daniele de Merlai” (or, “Merlac,” according to
Coxe) “alias Morley in lib. de superioribus et inferioribus
primo De creationis Mundi.” This MS is one of the notebooks
of Brian Twyne, the Elizabethan antiquary, written in his
own hand.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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