[761] See Arundel MS 165, 14th century. On the general subject of the Pseudo-Aristotelian literature the reader may consult V. Rose, _Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus_, and _De ordine et auctoritate librorum Aristotelis_; Munk’s article “Aristote” in _La France littéraire_; Schwab, _Bibliographie d’Aristote_, Paris, 1896; and R. Shute, _History of the Aristotelian Writings_, Oxford, 1888. It is, however, a difficult subject and for the middle ages at least has not been satisfactorily investigated. Grabmann (1916) devotes only a page or two of supplement to it; see pp. 248-51. A work on Aristotle in the middle ages, announced in 1904 by G. H. Luquet, seems not to have appeared. [762] Sloane 2030, fols. 110-13. [763] Hammer-Jensen, _Das sogenannte IV Buch der Meteorologie des Aristoteles_, in _Hermes_, vol. 50 (1915) pp. 113-36, argues that its teachings differ from those of Aristotle and assigns it to Strato, his younger contemporary. Not content with this thesis, which is easier to suggest than to prove, Hammer-Jensen contends that it was a work of Strato’s youth and that it profoundly influenced Aristotle himself in his last works. “The convenient Strato!” as he is called by Loveday and Forster in the preface to their translation of _De coloribus_ (1913) vol. VI of _The Works of Aristotle_ translated into English under the editorship of W. D. Ross. [764] So Hammer-Jensen, p. 113, and earlier Heller (1882), I, 61. [765] Nürnberg Stadtbibliothek (centur. V, 59, membr. 13th century)--cited by Rose, _Hermes_ 1, 385,--“Completus est liber metheororum cuius tres primos libros transtulit magister Gerardus Lumbardus summus philosophus de arabico in latinum. Quartum autem transtulit Henricus Aristippus de greco in latinum. Tria ultima capitula transtulit Aluredus Anglicus sarelensis de arabico in latinum.” Steinschneider (1893) pp. 59 and 84; (1905) p. 7; and others, including Hammer-Jensen, give the name of the translator of the fourth book from the Greek as Hermann and of the last three chapters as Aurelius, whom Steinschneider is more correct in describing as “otherwise unknown.” On the other hand, we know that Aristippus and Alfred translated other Aristotelian treatises. Evidently Steinschneider and the others have followed MSS where the copyist has corrupted the proper names. [766] Steinschneider and Hammer-Jensen quote from MSS, “tria vero ultima Avicennae capitula transtulit Aurelius de arabico in latinum.” Albertus Magnus, _Mineral_, III, i, 9, also ascribed the passage to Avicenna; others have suggested that it is by disciples of Avicenna. See J. Wood Brown (1897) pp. 72-3, for a similar passage from Avicenna’s _Sermo de generatione lapidum_. [767] They were printed at Bologna, 1501, as _Liber de mineralibus Aristotelis_ and also published, sometimes as Geber’s, sometimes as Avicenna’s, under the title, _Liber de congelatione_.