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[327] Here and elsewhere in this text are astrological signs which cannot be reproduced in print.

Transcriber’s Note: By comparison with a copy of Scot’s manuscript (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 89 sup. 038, ff. 409v-413r), the correct astrological signs have here been added.

[328] _Cf._ with the expression in the colophon ‘qui summus inter alios nominatur magister.’

[329] The manuscript shows a drawing of a magic circle here. It has the names of demons alternately with those of the cardinal points.

[330] These are names of philosophers probably the same as the ‘vnay et melchia’ of the _Luminis Luminum_, the rather that the phrase ‘non convertitur perfecte in lunam’ occurs in both passages. I do not know how to explain the fact that two paragraphs of the _Liber Dedali_ correspond so closely with one in the _Liber Luminis_.

[331] There is probably a reference here to the disputes which divided the different alchemical schools.

[332] The nature of this powder of moles is explained a little further on in the Liber Dedali, par. 10.

[333] A double chloride of ammonium and mercury, represented by the formula _2NH₄Cl. HgCl₂, H₂O_.

[334] The use of matters derived from the animal kingdom, carbonised toads or moles, may be illustrated from the Liber Dyabesi (Ricc. ms. l. iii. 13, 119, p. 4 recto) which treats of what had been ‘ab omni Latinitate intemptatum’ viz. the distillation of a white land-tortoise (v. p. 7 verso). Pliny remarks that goat’s blood sharpens and hardens iron tools and polishes steel better than any file.

[335] This passage is highly significant, and furnishes a key to the title of the treatise.

[336] The doctrine of the vitriols is here substantially the same as in the great work of Ibn Beithar of Malaga.

[337] There is a well-known tract _De aluminibus et salibus_ ascribed to Rases in the Paris MS. (6514 p. 128); it also occurs in the Speciale MS.

[338] This phrase is found in the _De aluminibus et salibus_ of Rases (Paris ms. 6514 p. 128) who calls the place ‘Elebla.’ Vincent of Beauvais ascribes the saying to Geber.

[339] The use of the first person singular here agrees with the notion that in this part of the _Liber Luminis_ we have the record of the author’s own experiments. See _ante_, p. 87.

INDEX

_Abbreviatio Avicennae_, 53-59, 66, 152, 177, 178.

Abd-el-Mumen, 112.

Aboasar, 101, 143.

Abraxas gems, 132.

Abrincensis, Henry, 164, 176.

Achinas, 31.

Alain de l’Isle, 195.

Alamout, Castle of, 147.

Albategni, 100.

Albertus Magnus, 78, 127, 143, 185.

Albigenses, 109, 111.

Albigensian Crusade, 111, 112, 193.

Alchemy, 65-95.

⸺ Disputes concerning, 73, 259.

Alexander the Great, 32, 33.

⸺ Legend of, 187-189.

Alexandria, 32, 69.

Alfarabi, 129.

Al Faquir, 49, 118.

Alfargan, 101.

Algebra and Magic, 100, 190-192.

Al Khowaresmi, 100.

Al Kindi, 71, 73, 74, 79.

_Almagest_, 98.

Al Mamun, 100.

Al Mansour, 112.

Almuchabola, 190, 192, 270.

Alpetrongi, 99-105, 124.

Alphagirus or Al Faquir, 49, 118.

Alphonso of Castile, 112, 143.

Ambassador, Scot as an, 169-175, 218.

Andrew, Scot’s interpreter, 119.

Anonymous Florentine, The, 8, 210, 211.

_Apologie des Grands Hommes_, 222.

Aquinas, S. Thomas, 204.

Arabic known to Scot, 24.

Arabs, their influence, 42-45.

‘Archelaus,’ Alchemy of, 82, 83.

Archimedes, 67.

Aristotle, 33, 46, 47, 107, 129.

⸺ Legend of, 187-189.

_Ars Aurifera_, 77.

Ars Notoria, 192, 195, 204.

Arthurian Legend, The, 195-205.

_Assephae, Liber_, 54, 235, 237.

_Astrologia_ of Scot, 141.

_Astrologorum Dogmata_ of Scot, 142.

Astrology and Magic, 184, 189.

Astrology taught by Scot, 141, 142.

_Astronomia_ of Scot, 26, 27, 28, 40.

Astronomy of the Arabs, 96-105.

Avalon, 194-205.

Avendeath, John, 35, 46, 53, 117-119, 235-239.

Averroës, vii, 106-110, 140, 185.

Avicenna, 46, 47, 53, 54, 73, 74, 106, 129, 183, 235-239.

Azarchel, 101, 103.

Bacon, Roger, 5, 12, 13, 14, 16, 118, 126, 135, 136, 145, 174, 175,
183, 185, 192, 195.

Baconthorpe, John, 15.

Baldi, Bernardino, vii-ix.

Balwearie, Scotts of, 9.

Bartholomew of Messina, 38.

Benefice sought for Scot, 157-163.

Benvenuto da Imola, 210.

Berwick, Bar of, 218.

_Bibliotheca_ of Manget, 77.

Birth of Scot, when, 10; where, 7-10.

Boccaccio, 16, 211, 212.

Boece, Hector, 222.

Bologna, 16, 173, 174, 210.

Bonacci, Leonardo, 148, 149.

Bonatti, Guido, 6, 124.

Book of Might, Scot’s, 203, 218, 221.

Burgh-under-Bowness, 221.

Byzantine Alchemy, 83.

Camperius, 153.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 158.

_Capitulum_ of Scot, 142.

Cashel, Archbishopric, 160, 161.

Castrensis, Robert, 75, 80.

Catskin, the bewitched, 225-227.

_Cento Novelle Antiche_, 197, 214.

Cervilerium, The, 168.

Character of Scot, 168, 169.

_Cheiromantia_, The, 215.

Circular Letter of Frederick II., 173.

_Compositiones ad Tingenda_, 67.

Constantia, Queen, 19.

⸺ Empress, 29, 111.

Cordova, 106, 112-114, 132.

⸺ Magic at, 19, 114, 115, 169, 215, 216, 231-234.

Courçon, Robert de, 110.

Crates _or_ Democritus, The Alchemy of, 33.

_Cronica dei Matematici_, viii, ix.

Crusades, 30, 156, 171, 172.

Da Buti, Francesco, 211.

Dante and his Commentators, ix, 16, 138, 206-211.

D’Avranches, Henry, 164, 176.

_De Alchimia_ of Scot, 88-94.

_De Aluminibus_, 262, 264.

_De Anima_, 125, 236.

_De Animalibus Avicennae_, 236, 237.

_De Animalibus ad Caesarem_, 48-53, 117.

Death of Scot, 175-178.

_Decamerone_, 212.

_De Causis_, 132, 237.

_De Coelo et Mundo_, 123, 235, 237.

_De Deo Benedicto_, 132.

Dee, Dr. John, 190.

_De Generatione_, 126, 237.

_De Generatione Lapidum_, 236.

_De Gestis Baldi_, 215, 216.

_De Mineralibus_, 73, 78, 79.

Democritus, 72.

Dempster, 6, 15, 152, 153, 216, 217, 221.

_De Partibus Animalium_, 59, 60, 134.

_De Presagiis_ of Scot, 142.

_De Secretis_, of Bacon, 209.

Despondency of Scot, 163-170.

_De Substantia Orbis_, 126, 237.

_De Tribus Impostoribus_, 130, 131, 186, 203.

_De Urinis_, 20, 153.

Dioscorides, 155.

_Dittamondo_, The, 207, 208.

Doxopatros, 163.

Dress of Scot, 138-140.

Dryburgh School, 11.

Dunkeld, See of, 161, 162.

Durham, 8, 11, 12.

Education of Scot, 11-16.

Eildon Hills, The, 10, 199, 200, 217.

Elias, Fra, 90-92.

El Mohdy, 198, 199.

Emanuel, Alchemy of, 83-85.

⸺ Comnenus, 163.

Erythræan Sibyl, the, 163.

Es-Seémiya, 208-209.

Essenes, 32.

Étienne de Rheims, 124.

Etna haunted, 194, 195.

Eugenio, Admiral, 145, 164.

Falsehope, Witch of, 219-221.

Familiar Spirit, Scot’s, 217, 218.

Fata Morgana, The, 195, 202, 203.

Fazio degli Uberti, 207.

Florentine tales of Scot, 222-227.

_Florian and Florete_, 195.

Folengo, Teofilo, 215, 218.

Frederick I., 30, 196.

⸺ II., 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, 56, 57, 110-112, 116, 131, 137, 138, 144,
147, 150, 151, 167, 171-174, 186, 196-198, 212, 214, 218.

Fresco at Florence, 139, 140, 203.

Galienus, 83.

Gazzali, 109.

Geber, 72, 264.

Geomancy, 190.

_Geomantia_, The, 215.

George of Antioch, 25, 83.

Gerard of Cremona, 20, 46, 191, 215, 238.

⸺ Sabloneta, 115, 125, 126.

Gervase of Tilbury, 194, 195.

Giovacchino di Fiora, 164.

Gipsies, The, 204, 205.

Glamour, what, 208, 209.

Grammar Schools of Scotland, 4, 11.

Grave of Scot, where, 177.

Greek, Scot’s knowledge of, 24, 38, 133-135.

Gregory IX., 162, 163, 171, 172.

Gundisalvus, Dominicus, 46, 53, 117-119, 236, 238.

Guy, Bishop of Tripoli, 37.

Hakim, Caliph, 112.

Heisterbach, Cæsar von, 180, 195.

Hemp used in Magic, 225.

Henry of Colonia, 57, 177.

Hermannus Alemannus, 5, 134.

Hispalensis, Johannes, 34, 36, 143.

Hispanus, Johannes, 35, 36.

_History of Animals_, Aristotle’s, 38, 43-63.

Ibn-Badja, 108.

Ibn-Beithar, 95, 155, 260.

Ibn-el-Bitriq, 34-36.

Ibn-Moauia, 72-75.

Ibn-Tofail, 100, 109.

Images, Magic of, 216.

Ittisal, The, 108, 109, 132.

Jacopo della Lana, 211.

Jacopone da Todi, 164.

Joachim, Abbot, 197.

Josephus, 32, 70.

Kitab Alchefâ, The, 54, 235.

Kyffhauser, The, 196.

Landino, 210.

Legend of Scot, 179-227.

Leonardo Pisano, 190, 192.

Lesley, 152.

_Liber Abbaci_, 148, 149, 190, 192.

_Liber Dedali_, 82, 84-86, 241-265.

_Liber duodecim Aquarum_, 84-85.

_Liber Dyabesi_, 85, 252.

_Liber Introductorius_, of Scot, 27, 28, 40, 77, 97, 141, 142, 184.

_Liber Invidiosus_, 85.

_Liber Lumen Luminum_, 85.

_Liber Luminis Luminum_, of Scot, 81-89, 240-268.

_Liber Particularis_, of Scot, 27, 28, 40, 97.

_Logica_, The, 235.

Lucken Howe, The, 200.

Lydgate’s version of the _Secreta_, 38.

Maddalena’s Tales, 223-227.

Magic, Arabian, 181-184.

⸺ Book ascribed to Scot, 191, 192, 270-274.

⸺ not impossible, 179.

⸺ power, how obtained, 224, 225.

⸺ Schools of, 180, 184.

⸺ Scot familiar with, 184.

⸺ Tales of, 180.

Magician, Was Scot a, 184.

⸺ Why Scot called a, 185-193.

Magisterium, what, 90.

_Magisterium_ of Scot, 79, 80.

Magna Grecia, 24.

Maimonides, 132.

Manuel Comnenus, 83.

_Mappae Clavicula_, 67, 68.

Mar Iannos, 72, 75.

Martorana, Library of the, 25, 83.

Master, Scot’s title of, 14, 19, 22, 23, 233.

Mathematician, Michael the, 13, 26.

Mathematics, Scot’s studies in, 26.

Maugis, 223.

_Maugis and Vivien_, 199.

Mauritius Hispanus, 110.

Medicine, 66, 149-156.

Mengot, Master, 223-227.

Merlin, 164, 199, 223.

Merlin Coccajo, 215.

_Metaphysica_, The, 126, 127, 235.

_Meteora_, The, 36, 71, 73, 79, 126, 237.

Mirandola, Pico della, 142, 143.

Mohammed, 199.

Monk’s Heath, tale of, 200-202.

Moorish Libraries, 76.

Morgana, The Fata, 195, 202, 203.

Naples, A Legend of, 146, 147.

Nationality of Scot, 5, 7.

Natural History, The Arabian, 60-63.

Naudé, x, 222.

Nectanebus, 187-189, 198.

Nicolas Peripateticus, 108.

_Notitia Convinctionis_ of Scot, 142.

_Nova Ethica_, 133.

Oakwood Tower, 10, 219.

Old Man of the Mountain, 147.

_Optica_ of Ptolemy, 145.

Oxford, 12, 175.

Palermo, 23, 25, 29, 30, 40, 41.

_Paradiso degli Alberti_, 212.

Paris, 13-15, 17, 174.

⸺ Council of, 109.

⸺ Tale of, 218, 219.

Parma, Tale of, 214.

_Parva Naturalia_, The, 125.

Pascal compared with Scot, 169.

Passavanti, Fra Jacopo, 203, 204.

Patronage, Abuse of, 158.

Pendasius, 132.

Peter the Notary, 119.

⸺ of Toledo, 119.

⸺ the Venerable, 119.

Philemon _or_ Polemon, 31.

Philip of Salerno, 37.

⸺ of Tripoli, 36, 37, 116, 157.

Philippus Clericus, 19, 21, 36.

Philopon, Johannes, 129.

_Physica_, The, 126, 127.

_Physionomia_ of Aristotle, 38.

⸺ of Scot, 30-40, 51, 52.

_Picatrix_, The, 183, 187, 216.

_Pillulae_ of Scot, 154, 155.

Plague, The, 40, 41, 156.

Plato, 130.

Pliny, 252.

Porphyry, 107.

Proclus, 132.

Prophecies of Scot, 163-168.

‘Province of Scotland,’ what, 8.

_Pseudo Boccaccio_, The, 214.

Ptolemy, 97-99, 101, 103, 143, 145.

Publication of Scot’s Works, 169-175, 177, 178.

_Pulvis Dom. Fred._, 154, 155.

Quadrivium, The, 28.

Quattrami, Fra Evangelista, 71.

_Quaestio Curiosa_, The, 77, 78.

_Quaestiones Nicolai Peripatetici_, 108, 127-132.

Rases, 32, 65, 73, 74, 79, 80, 152, 262, 264.

Raymon, Archbishop of Toledo, 45, 46, 53, 117.

Rossetti, 222.

Roxburgh School, 11.

Sacrobosco, Johannes, 11, 145.

Salerno, Philip of, 19, 20, 21, 23, 37.

⸺ School of, 150.

Salimbene, his tale, 144.

Saracens, The, 30, 198.

Satchells, 176, 221, 222.

Schmutzer, x, 222.

Scot, Bishop of Dunkeld, 161, 162.

Scotland dislikes Rome, 159.

⸺ in the twelfth century, 1-5.

⸺ Magic in, 217.

Scott, Sir Walter, 222.

Scottish Grammar Schools, 4, 11.

Scotus Erigena, 4, 7.

_Secreta Naturæ_, 82-84, 89.

_Secreta Secretorum_, 20, 25, 37.

Seismometer, a, 147.

Sergius of Resaina, 72.

Sicily, Arthurian, 194.

⸺ Court of, 18, 40, 137.

⸺ Languages spoken in, 24, 25, 194.

Signatures, Doctrine of, 31.

_Sirr-el-asrar_, The, 32-38.

Spain, Scot visits, 41.

_Specchio di Penitenza_, 203, 204.

_Sphera_, 98, 99.

⸺ of Sacrobosco, ix, 145.

Stephen of Bourbon, 195.

⸺ of Provins, 123, 124.

Suppression of Scot’s _Averroës_, 141, 157.

Tarasia, Queen of Spain, 35, 36.

‘Thales,’ Scot called, 214.

_Theatrum Chemicum_, 77, 79.

Themistius, 129.

Theological studies and style of Scot, 14, 15, 50, 56, 89.

Therapeutæ, The, 32, 33, 70.

Thuringia, Bertolph of, 195.

Tibbun, Samuel, 36.

Toledo, 63, 64.

⸺ Schools of, 35, 45, 46, 54, 106, 115-123.

⸺ Astronomy at, 97, 98, 104.

⸺ Magic at, 187.

Transformation a ruling idea, 80, 81.

Tripoli, Bishop of, 37.

⸺ Philip of, 20, 21, 36, 37.

Troubadours, The, 195, 196.

Trouvères, The, 195.

Tweed, The River, 218.

Urine, Works on the, 20, 153.

_Vergilius_, Romance of, 146.

Vincent of Beauvais, 176, 185, 264.

Vivien, 203.

Volmar, Master, 178.

Witchcraft, 182.

Zosimus, 72.

FINIS.

ERRATA

Page 55, line 11. _For_ ‘mºcºcºx,’ _read_ ‘mºccºx.’

Page 81, note 1. _For_ ‘The term had not been previously used in theology,’ _read_ ‘The term seems not to have been previously used in pure theology.’

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