[83] See Lane’s _Modern Egyptians_, vol. i. p. 197 note. [84] We should remember, however, the Emperor’s instructions to his translators: ‘verborum fideliter servata virginitate.’ See his circular of 1230 to the Universities.—Jourdain, _Recherches_, p. 133. [85] _De Animalibus ad Caesarem_, chap. ix. [86] Bibl. Laur. Pl. xiii. sin. cod. 9 in fol. perg. This MS. was written in 1266. [87] Fifteenth Century s. l. et a. in fol. pp. 54. There are also Venice editions of 1493 and 1509. [88] Fondo Vaticano 4428 in fol. perg. saec. xiii. See a complete inventory of this MS. in Appendix II. [89] See Roger Bacon, _Opus Majus_, p. 37. [90] P. 158 _recto_, the last line of the third column. [91] _Recherches_, p. 133. [92] See _ante_, p. 10. [93] There is an evident reference to Prov. i. 9 in these words which accords well with Scot’s usual style. [94] Printed, but very incompletely, at Augsburg in 1596 in 8vo. [95] _Hist. Dip. Frid. II._ vol. iv. pt. i. pp. 381, 382. [96] Can this have been _Cologna_, a village about four miles north of Salerno? [97] Fondo Vaticano 4428. [98] The words are: ‘Ex libro animalium Aristotelis Domini Imperatoris in margine’ (p. 158 _recto_): see facsimile at p. 55. [99] Bibl. Chisiana E viii. 251, at p. 41 bottom margin. [100] P. 158, _recto_ col. 1. [101] p. 164. [102] Pl. xiii. sin. cod. 9. Other MSS. of the _Abbreviatio Avicennae_ are these: Fondo Vaticano 7096; Fondo Regina di Svezia 1151; Bibl. Burgensis 8557 in 8vo memb. saec. xiii. vel xiv.; Bibl. Pommersfeld, saec. xiv.; Paris, Anc. Fonds 6443; Venice, Bibl. St. Marc. 171 memb. saec. xiv. (the same library has another MS. in 4to memb. saec. xiv., see the Catalogue by Valentinelli, vol. v. p. 58). Bologna, Bibl. Univ. 1340 in fol. chart. saec. xiv. doubtful; Oxford, Bodl. MSS. Canon. Misc. 562 saec. xiv. et xv.; Merton Coll. MS. 277 saec. xiv.; All Souls MS. 72 saec. xiv. [103] _Recherches_, p. 133. [104] P. 13, _recto et verso_, in the undated fifteenth century edition of the _Abbreviatio_. [105] _Ibid._ pp. 33 _verso_, 34 _recto_. [106] See _ante_, p. 32. [107] _La Chimie au Moyen Age_, Paris, 1893. One cannot praise too highly the interest and value of this monumental work. I am greatly indebted to it for many of the facts and conclusions here repeated.