[17] _Opus Majus_, ed. Jebbi, pp. 36, 37. The words are ‘Tempore Michaelis Scoti, qui, annis 1230 transactis, apparuit, deferens librorum Aristotelis partes aliquas,’ etc. See _infra_, ch. viii. [18] See Anderson, _Scottish Nation_, _sub nomine_. [19] _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, Note Y. See _infra_, ch. x. [20] See _infra_, p. 18. [21] Romance of _Elinando_. [22] He probably joined the Cistercian Order. [23] _Compendium Studii_, p. 425. [24] In the printed edition of Dempster, the reference is ‘lib. 3 sententiarum, quaest. iii.,’ but I have not been able to verify it. [25] _Hist. Litt. de la France_, vol. ix. p. 65. [26] _Opus Majus_, p. 84. [27] _Elinando._ [28] _Decamerone_, viii. 9. [29] See _infra_, chap. x. [30] The MS. of Scot’s _Physionomia_ in the Vatican Library (_Fondo della Regina di Svezia_ 1151, saec. xvi?) has joined to it some extravagant lines in praise of the Parisian schools, where the writer compares them to Paradise. There is no reason to suppose Scot wrote these verses, but they fully support the statement made in the text. [31] Pl. lxxxix. _sup._ cod. 38. See Appendix, No. 1. [32] See p. 244 of the MS. [33] _Domini Magistri._ [34] _Philipo._ [35] _Coronato._ [36] _Destinavit sibi._ [37] See Ducange, _sub voce_. [38] Huillard-Bréholles, _Hist. Dip. Frid. II._, vol. i. pp. 44, 68, 242, 255. [39] No. 354. [40] See _infra_, p. 37. [41] L’Anonimo Fiorentino, _Comento alla Divina Commedia_. Bologna, Fanfani, 1866-74. [42] See especially the preface to the _Physionomia_. [43] Smith’s _Dictionary of Christian Antiquities_, _sub voce_ ‘Magister.’ [44] From August 1200 to January 1208. See Amari, _Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia_. [45] See the _Hist. Dip. Frid._, _passim_. [46] Amari. [47] See _infra_, pp. 26, 59, and ch. vi. [48] _Compendium Studii_, p. 434. [49] See the preface to the _Secreta_. [50] Amari. See _infra_, p. 83. [51] Bibl. Bodl. MSS. Canon Misc. 555; cod. memb. in 4to ff. 97, saec. xiv. ineunt., with a portrait of Michael Scot in one of the initials. The preface opens thus:—‘Cum ars astronomie sit grandis sermonibus philosophorum.’ The book begins:—‘Cronica Grece Latine dicitur series ut temporis temporum sicut dominorum,’ and closes thus:—‘De expositione fundamenti terrae volentes his finere secundum librum quem incepimus in nomine Dei, Cui ex parte nostra sit semper grandis laus et gloria, benedictio et triumphus in omnibus per infinita saecula saeculorum Amen.’ Other MSS. of the _Astronomia_ are found at Milan, Bibl. Ambros. L. 92, _sup. cum figuris_; and at Munich, see Halm and Meyer’s _Catalogue_, vol. ii. part i. p. 156, No. 1242, saec. xviii. [52] ‘Quasi vulgariter.’