The Belenus, as whose disciple Flaccus Africanus is represented, is also the reputed author of a work on astrological images found in several manuscripts of the British Museum.[718] Albertus Magnus in the _Speculum astronomiae_ attributed to Belenus two reprehensible books of necromantic images.[719] The _Turba philosophorum_, a medieval work of alchemy consisting in large measure of Latin re-translation of Arabic versions from Greek alchemists, also cites a Belus or Belinus. The name is believed to be a corruption from Apollonius of Tyana, with whom Apollonius of Perga, the mathematician, is perhaps also confused.[720] One of the _Incipits_ of the tracts listed in the _Speculum astronomiae_ is, “Said Belenus who is also called Apollo.” However, many medieval Latin manuscripts attribute works to Apollonius under that name, as in the case of a work on the Notory Art which we shall mention in another chapter.[721] FOOTNOTES: [699] I know of no very early printed editions, but have consulted a copy published at Leipzig in 1638, and two MSS, Ashmole 1471, late 14th century, fols. 143v-167r, and Arundel 342, 14th century, in an Italian hand. The work is also contained either _in toto_ or brief excerpt in several Sloane MSS, and was printed in English in 1685 as _The Magick of Kiranus_. See also Wolfenbüttel 1014, 15th century, fol. 102, _De libro Kyranidis Kyrani, regis Persarum_. I have not seen P. Tannery, _Les Cyranides_, in _Congrès international d’histoire des sciences_, Geneva, 1904. [700] I, 8. [701] See Black’s description of Ashmole 1471, “Translator qui libros tres operis huius ... e Gracca versione (ex Arabico textu anno 377 facta) ... Latinos fecit.” [702] Berthelot (1885) p. 47. [703] Article _Hermes Trismegistus_ in PW 798. [704] Ashmole 1471, fols. 143v-167r, “Incipit liber Kirannidarum in quo premittitur tale prohemium. Prudentissimo domino Magistro Ka. Parissen. infimus clericus salutem.” The translator’s address to his patron sounds a little like Hugh of Santalla, but a date after 1168 is rather late either for Hugh or the anonymous Sicilian translator of the Almagest, whom the association in this case with Paris also tends to preclude. Possibly the translator may be Philip, the cleric of Tripoli, who speaks of himself in a similarly humble style, and of whom we shall speak in the next two chapters. [705] According to the printed text of 1638. [706] Ashmole 1471, “_anno Christi_ 1280 _aliter_ 1169.” [707] Harpocration is cited by Galen: see Kühn XII, 629, “ad aures purulentas Harpocration.” [708] S. Marco XIV, 37, fols. 11-73 Alchirani, liber de proprietatibus rerum. Liber physicalium virtutum, compassionum et curationum, collectus ex libris duobus.