[834] Very similar is the story in the Gilgamesh epic, a work “far more ancient than Genesis,” of a serpent stealing a life-giving plant from Gilgamesh while he was bathing in a well or brook. The plant, which had been revealed to Gilgamesh by the deified Utnapishtim, “had the miraculous power of renewing youth and bore the name, ‘the old man becomes young.’” Sir James Frazer (1918), I, 50-51, follows Rabbi Julian Morgenstern (“On Gilgamesh Epic, XI, 274-320,” in _Zeitschrift f. Assyriologie_, XXIX, 1915, p. 284ff.) in connecting this incident with the serpent and the tree of life in the Biblical account of the fall of man, and gives further examples from primitive folk-lore of other jealous animals, such as the dog, frog, duck, and lizard, perverting divine gifts or good tidings to man to their own profit. [835] Sloane 2030, fols. 125-26; Additional 15236, fols. 154-60; BN, 7420A (14th century) #16. [836] Richard Förster, _De Aristotelis quae feruntur physiognomonicis recensendis, Kiliae_, 1882; _De translat. latin. physiognom., Kiliae_, 1884; _Scriptores Physiognomici, Lipsiae_, 1893-1894. [837] Cotton Julius D-viii, fol. 126ff.; Harleian 3969; Egerton 847; Sloane 2030, fol. 95-103; Additional 15236, fol. 160 (in abbreviated form); Sloane 3281, fols. 19-23; Sloane 3584; Egerton 2852, fol. 115v, _et seq._ [838] There is a manuscript copy of a commentary on it of the fourteenth century at Erfurt, Amplon. Quarto 186. See Schum’s catalogue for MSS of the _Physiognomia_ itself in the Amplonian collection. [839] R. Förster, _De Aristotelis quae feruntur secreta secretorum Commentatio_, Kiliae, 1888; _Handschriften und Ausgaben des pseudo-aristotelischen Secretum secretorum_, in _Centralblatt f. Bibliothekwesen_, VI (1889), 1-22, 57-76. And see Steele (1920). [840] M. Gaster, in his “Introduction to a Hebrew version of the Secret of Secrets,” in the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_ (1908, part 2), pp. 1065-84; for the Hebrew text and an English translation, _Ibid._ (1907), pp. 879-913 and (1908, part 1), pp. 111-62. [841] Ed. Robert Steele, EETS, LXVI, London, 1894. Volume LXXIV contains three earlier English versions. There are numerous MSS of it in Italian in the Riccardian and Palatini collections at Florence. [842] _De Somno et vigilia_, I, ii, 7. [843] Tanner 116, 13th century; Corpus Christi 149, 15th century. Recently edited by Robert Steele, 1920, as Fasc. V of his _Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi_.