A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2) / During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era

GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations, 937
Abraham the patriarch, and astrology, 91, 449, 831;
oak-tree of, 387
Abscess, 561, 565
Accusation of magic, against Roger Bacon, 31, 628-9, 676-7, 680;
Albertus Magnus, 549;
Trithemius, 550;
philosophers and scientists, 660, 676-7;
Hubert de Burgh, 675;
Arnald of Villanova, 843;
Bernard Délicieux, 860-1;
Abano, 882, 888-90, 945-6, 978
Achates, a gem, 143, 364, 420
Achilles, 908
Acorn, 850
Adam, first man, 135-6, 154, 197, 201, 241, 292, 325, 327, 475
Adamant, mill worked by, 243;
magnetic force of, 387, 566, 573, 817;
breakable only by blood of goat, 546, 657
Adfar, 214, 216
Adultery, 728
Aerimancy or Aeromancy, 87, 320, 701-2
Agate, 331, 364, 469, 854
Agent, and patient, 738
Ages of man, 154, 834, 895;
golden age, 896
Agnus Dei, 352
Agriculture, 6, 80, 82, 177, 470
Agrimonia, an herb, 142
Air, 420, 504, 579, 768, 790, 886-7;
seven regions of, 324, 392-3
Alchemy, chaps, xlv, lxv, 80, 90, 177, 251, 433, 817;
Adelard and, 22-3;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 249, 251, 277;
Michael Scot, 319-20, 327, 333-7;
Franciscans, 335;
Grosseteste, 447, 452-3;
Vincent, 471;
Albertus Magnus, 545, 557, 562, 567-73, 588;
Aquinas, 607;
Roger Bacon, 626, 639, 651, 658, 679;
Arnald, 851, 855;
Lull, 867-8;
Abano, 906-7
Alcohol, 219, 501, 760, 766, 782, 784ff., 797
Alexander the Great, 301, 64 653-4, 786, 896-7, 908;
and see other index
Alexander IV, pope, 525
Alexandria, 74, 83, 214, 264, 322, 761, 794
Algebra, 89, 237
Alive, animal from which part taken, to remain, 781
Allegorical interpretation, of Bible, 11, 134, 207-8, 631, 648;
of nature, 131, 192, 376, 847;
in alchemy, 27, 217;
in zoology, 386, 434;
images, 899;
and see Personification, Symbolism
Alleluia year, 831
Alliataiu, a fish, 781
Almohades, 206
Aloes, 698, 817
Alphabetical order, 294ff., 302, 406, 420, 536, 877
Alps, 46, 133, 156
Alsace, 425
Altar, experiments and physicians of, 481, 752, 756
Alum, 335
Alvarotto, Jacopo, 946
America, discovery of, 645, 865
Ammonia, 573, 752
Amorites, 322
Amulet, 147, 209, 264, 276, 433, 769;
and see Ligatures and Suspensions
Amusements, 808
Anaesthetics, 860, 887
Anatomy, 130, 376, 537
Androsimon, 276
Anena(?), 790
Anglo-Saxon, 67
Animals, 31, 56-7, 231, 727;
intelligence, jealousy, remedies discovered by, 11, 35, 146, 200, 266, 423, 433, 473, 508-9, 563, 653, 908;
use of parts of, 496, 498, 761, 764, 781, 817;
and see names of individual animals
Anselm, “friend,” 784
Ant, 243
Ant-hill, 147
Anthony, St. 380;
church of, in Padua, 945-6
Antichrist, 138, 248, 460, 672, 674, 743, 842, 844, 954, 960
Antidote, 384, 858;
and see Poison, and, in other index, Antidotarium under various medical authors
Antioch, 46, 245, 270
Antipathy, 144, 349, 732
Antipodes, 199, 332, 538, 885-6
Ape, 384, 780;
eaten by sick lion, 563
Aplanon, 41
Apollo, 646, 908
Apoplexy, 887
Apothecary, 835, 872
Apparition, 345, 358, 381, 470, 528, 559, 603, 912;
and see Spirit
Apple, 244, 506, 789
Applied science, 81, 190, 275, 601;
Roger Bacon and, 651, 663
Apulia, 156, 426
Aqua ardens, see Alcohol
Arabic language and learning, 24-8, 206, 211, 310-2, 349, 449, 499, 582, 589, 640, 643-4, 647, 762, 778, 863, 888, 972
Archaeology, 279
Architecture, 82
Argenteus, 226
Ariolus, 553
Aristologia, an herb, 794, 908
Arithmetic, 70, 449, 790, 904
Armenia and Armenian, 239, 262, 863
Arms and armor, 82
Aromatics, 350;
and see Spice, Unguent
Arrow, 344, 561
Arsenic, 471, 573, 797
Art, stars and, 587, 610, 673, 857
Art, Universal, of Lull, 863, 865-7, 871-2
Artemisia, 565
Artery, 298, 887
Artisan, 326, 536, 544, 651;
and see Gild
Asbestos, 242
Asclepius, 290, 902
Ascoli, 956, 958, 967
Ash, reduced to, 386, 413, 433, 562, 767, 793
Ass, 57, 145, 345, 384, 482, 767, 781, 817
Assidios, 240-1
Astrolabe, 21-2, 45, 68, 112, 116, 865
Astrologia, medieval meaning of, 11, 81, 829, 890
Astrological medicine, 6, 72, 92, 323-4, 498-9, 513, 670-1, 767, 851, 855-6, 871-2, 890, 893ff., 957
Astrology, chaps, xxxviii, xxxix, xlii, li, lxii, lxvii, lxx, lxxi;
also discussed by, Abelard, 5-7;
Hugh of St. Victor, 11-13;
Adelard, 40-2;
William of Conches, 55-8, 61;
Hildegard, 143, 148-54;
John of Salisbury, 164-6;
Neckam, 202-3;
Maimonides, 211-2;
Kiranides, 233-4;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 253-9, 274-8;
Pseudo-Solomon, 283;
Sworn-Book, 287;
William of Auvergne, 366-71;
Thomas of Cantimpré, 393;
Bartholomew, 416-9, 423;
Grosseteste, 445-7, 451-2;
Vincent, 467-9;
Albert, 535, 577-92;
Aquinas, 608-15;
Bacon, 638-9, 655, 658-9, 664, 668-77;
Pseudo-Albert, 730, 739, 742, 744;
Sloane MSS, 805-8;
Arnald, 855-8;
Lull, 868-72;
relation to magic, 148, 343, 556, 558, 674, 816, 857, 892;
to other divination, 148, 298ff., 892;
to alchemy, 588;
writings against, 970;
dominance of, 973
Astronomia, medieval meaning of, 11, 81, 319, 577, 669, 790, 829, 890
Astronomy, of twelfth century, 70-1, 83, 198;
history of, 320-1;
defense of, 696-7;
of Dante, 826;
of Abano, 890;
of Sacrobosco, 964
Athens, 284, 332, 428, 639, 755
Atlantis, 895
Atlas, the giant, and astronomy, 322, 646
Atom, Atomic theory, etc., 61, 462, 648, 906
Augury, 149, 319, 329, 365, 576-7, 601
Augustinian Order, 8, 189, 882
Authority and Authorities, attitude to, and citation of, Abelard, 6;
Adelard, 28-9;
Athelardus, 42-3;
William of Conches, 60;
Pedro Alfonso, 71;
John of Spain, 78;
Robert Kilwardby, 82;
Daniel of Morley, 172-5;
Neckam, 193-6, 199;
Cantimpré, 373, 377-80;
Bartholomew, 403-5, 422-3, 432;
Arnold of Saxony, 430-2;
Grosseteste’s Summa, 448-51;
Vincent, 461-6;
Peter of Spain, 494-6, 502;
Albert, 536, 541-2;
Aquinas, 609;
De fato, 613;
Bacon, 633-6, 647, 657, 683;
Pseudo-Albert, 727, 731-4;
Picatrix, 815-6;
Bonatti, 826-7;
Abano, 885, 910;
miscellaneous, 241, 481, 677, 710, 732
Ave Maria, 117, 296, 952
Averroism, 709, 863-4, 887-8
Azure, 573
Babylon and Babylonia, 240, 257, 357, 359
Balaam, 318
Balagius, a gem, 469
Baldness, 31, 561
Balearic Isles, 863
Ballot, 931
Balsam, 239, 698
Baptism, 198, 391
Barber, 426
Barbo, a fish, 144
Barcelona, 83, 207, 845, 862, 930
Barley, 234
Barnacle bird, 200, 464
Basilisk, 202, 347, 361, 433, 562, 901, 905;
and cock, 201, 562
Bat, 195, 288, 498, 736, 795, 817, 850
Bath, 224, 227, 480, 500, 787;
Turkish, 273, 902
Bean, 850
Bear, 145, 767
Beard, 834
Beast, number of the, 672
Beasts, wild, 16, 232
Beatitudes, 325
Beaver, castration of, 199, 380, 433, 513, 540, 657
Becket, Thomas, St., chap. xli
Bed, taking a thing to, 142-3
Bee, 224, 744, 780
Beef, 147
Beet-juice, 563
Beetle, 790, 956
Belt, see Girdle
Benedict XI, pope, 844, 860
Benvenuto of Abano, 942-3
Berkeley, Lord, 806
Betony, 555-6
Bezoar, animal, 210, 909;
mineral, 909-10
Bibliographies, medieval, 88, 353-4, 403, 405, 408, 612, 693, 696, 867;
Dominican, 374, 395, 571, 599, 612, 694-5, 724, 741
Bird, 118, 145, 224, 265, 327, 507;
edible, 147;
of prey, 484, 504;
to catch, 803;
prediction by, 160;
nest, 365, 420, 473
Bisemum, 140
Bishop, Richard, 50, 156
Bitumen, 793
Black, color used, 484, 497, 574, 780
Black Art, 319;
and see Necromancy
Black Death, 406
Black, Joseph, 36
Blanche of Castile, 339
Bleeding, 275, 324, 412, 476, 480, 804, 856, 887, 894
Blind and Blindness, 365, 860
Blood, human, 137, 299, 319, 504, 834;
use of, 144, 227, 320, 332, 817, 886, 909;
of animals, used, 147, 226, 232, 288, 321, 332, 386, 421-2, 433, 484, 496-8, 507, 546, 561, 563, 736, 781
Blotches, 561
Boar, 202
Bohel, a spirit, 289
Bologna, and university of, 525, 638, 795, 801, 827, 863, 879, 950, 952, 955, 967
Bonacossi, Bordelone, 877
Bones, used, 143, 496, 819, 899;
discussed, 886
Boniface VIII, pope, 844, 857, 937-8
Book and Books, Neckam’s, 203-4, 984;
trade in, 405;
of magic, 279, 284, 660, 662, 696, 701, 704, 731, 861
Botany, 532
Bottle, 321
Bow, magic, 344
Box, 231, 264, 835
Boxwood, 506
Boy and Boys, story of two, 275;
medieval, 410;
virtue of parts of, 336;
used in divination and other magic, 365, 586-7, 818
Brabant, 427
Brahmans, 378
Brain, physiology of, 39, 48, 298-9, 408, 500, 857, 860, 886;
poison in, 907;
of animals, used, 393, 496, 555, 561, 764, 786, 817
Bramble bush, 851
Bread, wheaten loaf, 141
Breastplate of high priest, 389, 399
Bridge, 655
Brindisi, 426
Britain, British Isles, and Britons, 364, 428
Brittany, 428
Bronze, 279
Brooch, 769
Building materials, 427
Bull, tamed by figtree, 202
Bungay, Friar, 680
Burgundy, 424
Burial, for purposes of magic, 145, 370, 483, 736, 802
Burned, in effigy, 946;
bones, 943-4;
at stake, 949, 952
Burning glass, 442, 455-6, 651, 789
Business courses, 82
Butter, 142, 434, 505, 817, 908
Byzantine, 38, 238, 300, 390
Cabbage, 496-7
Caesar, Julius, 668
Cairo, 190, 206, 734
Calendar, Christian, 92;
reform, 444, 631, 644
Caliph, 390, 734
Calixtus II, pope, 239, 241
Camel, 362, 383, 710, 788, 902;
humps of, 145
Camelea or Cameleon, an herb, 472
Camphor, 142, 786
Can Grande, 933
Candelabrum, 699
Candle, magic, 231, 280, 345, 561, 736-7, 782, 786ff., 793, 800
Candlestick, seven-branched, 370
Canonization, 127-8, 612
Cap, 145
Carbuncle, 236, 565
Carnelian, 388
Cask, 263
Casket, 224, 227, 860
Castle, 832, 838, 843-4;
magic, 346
Castration, 506;
and see Beaver
Casziel (or Cassiel), a spirit, 289, 900
Cat, 781, 964
Catalan, chap. lxviii, 862, 867, 873
Cataract, 563
Cauldron, 279
Cauterization, 856
Censorship, 805, 851, 950
Ceremonial, in magic and medicine, 141ff., 344, 482-3, 496, 801, 818-9, 904
Ceruse, 573
Chaldean, 92, 162, 208, 270, 286, 298, 349, 423, 449, 863
Cham, see Ham
Chance, experience, 499, 854;
and fate, 212, 830-1
Channel, English, 190
Characters, 227, 279, 351, 552, 556, 603, 608, 622, 659, 661, 663, 669, 731-2, 802, 820, 848-50
Charcoal, 689, 737
Chariot, scythe-bearing, 654
Charlemagne, 241
Charles V, king of France, 256, 405, 695, 801
Charles of Anjou, king of Naples, 460, 757, 795
Charles of Calabria, duke of Florence, 953, 967
Chartres, 52, 100, 155
Chastity, 242, 364, 388, 470, 817;
and see Virgin
Cheese, 434, 507
Chelidonia, see Swallow-wort
Chelidonius, 420-1
Chemical and Chemistry, chap. lxv, 38, 484, 500, 566, 573, 906
Chess, 835
Chestnut, 786
Chick, to make dance, 736
Chicken meat, 502-3
Child-birth, 135, 144, 316, 329, 376, 470, 482, 493, 586, 767, 851;
formation of foetus, 418, 469, 484, 700, 744, 876, 957;
born after eight months, dies, 329, 904;
monstrous birth, 745
Chimaera, 138, 537
Chinese dictionary, 448
Chiromancy, 166-7, 266, 329, 331, 575, 606, 701-2, 804, 890
Christ, 299, 327, 965;
birth of, and astrology, 105, 148ff., 371, 452, 579, 590-1, 672-3, 676, 703, 896-7, 953-4, 960-1;
and astrological elections, 831;
effect of birth of on magic, 236, 607;
power of name of, 483;
child, 611
Christian and Christianity, 216, 244, 649, 672, 678, 891, 896;
and see Magic, Religion, Theology
Chronology, 92, 648, 897-8
Church fathers, 174, 589, 635, 848-9
Churl and Bird, tale of, 73
Cicada, 541
Cinnamon, 472
Cipher, 335, 688, 788
Circe, 719
Circle, magic, 227, 288, 321, 343, 345, 664, 669, 912;
in Lull’s Art, 865-6
Circumcision, 834
Cistercian, 458
Cithara, 44-5
Citron, 544
City, fortune of, predicted, 331, 832, 838, 954-5
Claretum, a drink, 434
Classical heritage, 51, 157, 191
Classification of the sciences, 10-11, 79-82, 475, 630, 681
Clement IV, pope, 256, 458, 597, 622-8
Clement V, pope, 207, 842-6, 938
Clergy, interest of, in divination, 121, 170, 832, 836;
as translators, 230;
attacked, 306, 844;
regular, 628, 759
Cloak, virtue of, 35, 160
Clock, see Time
Clothing, 82, 352, 391, 428, 818;
incombustible, 242;
and see the names of individual garments
Coal, 420;
soot, 793
Cock, 201, 383, 498, 781, 819, 850;
cock-crow, 263
Cold, the disease, 761
Colic, 887
Cologne, 523, 525-6, 544-5, 595ff., 638
Color and Colors, discussed, 42, 434, 793, 804;
making of, and experiments with, 787-8, 799-800, 806;
in magic, 288, 729
Combustible compounds, see Candle
Comet, 7, 58, 320, 371, 446-8, 452-3, 459, 469, 524, 583, 701, 961
Commune, 932, 941ff.
Compass, mariner’s, 31, 190, 199, 324, 387-8, 430, 621, 864
Compass, points of, observed, 140, 287, 343, 801, 819, 837, 964
Complexion, meaning physical constitution, 670, 886, 894, 896
Compostela, 488, 499
Compotus or Computus, 444, 644, 804
Compounds, medicinal, magical, etc., 480-2, 504, 508, 755, 769, 805, 817, 854
Conception, to aid, 730;
to prevent, 470, 736, 744, 763;
and the stars, 152, 316, 328-9, 876
Confederate, used in magic, 661, 669
Confessional, 742, 835
Conjunction, astrological, 146, 255, 583, 672, 872, 888, 896-7, 956, 960
Conjuration, see Incantation, and Spirit, invocation of
Consecration, of bells, books, gems, spirits, etc., chap. xlix, 243, 321, 353, 470, 556, 567
Constantine the Great, emperor, 729
Constantinople, 190, 230, 313, 638, 877
Constantius of Abano, 876
Constipation, 768
Consumption, 887
Contingent event, 12, 516, 559, 605
Contrary, cure by, 887
Cooking recipes, 799, 802
Copper, 545
Copprea, 143
Coptic, 214
Copyists, use of, and mistakes and frauds by, 171, 225, 297, 301, 427-8, 458, 464, 625-7, 742, 779, 909, 938
Coral, 470, 853-4
Cordova, 22, 205, 310
Cormorant, 473
Cornu cerastis, 242
Corpse, 32, 39, 192, 482, 496, 556, 762, 767, 782, 851;
and see Necromancy, Resurrection
Cotton, 561, 819
Cow, 57-8, 412, 729, 778, 780, 854
Crab, 362, 413
Crane, 144
Crape, 737
Creation, 58-61, 175, 181, 288, 317, 439, 461, 869, 962
Credulity and Scepticism, of Pedro Alfonso, 72;
John of Salisbury, 157;
Neckam, 199-200;
Maimonides, 208;
Michael Scot, 315;
of medical men concerning spirits, 359, 369, 889;
Cantimpré, 380-1;
Bartholomew, 433;
Vincent, 464-6;
Albert, 464, 539, 543-6, 562, 566;
Frederick II, 465;
William of Auvergne, 349, 358, 360-3;
Gilbert of England, 480-1;
Aristotle, 576;
Bacon, 656-7;
Pseudo-Albert, 731, 734;
Abano, 889, 903;
other medieval, 116, 234, 238, 276, 513, 795, 804, 806, 856-7, 969-70;
modern, 236
Critical days, 893
Criticism dreaded, 159, 634ff., 640, 643
Cross, sign of, 141, 143, 288, 321, 381, 467, 470, 483, 528, 608, 848, 850;
wood of, 549;
in form of, 860;
magic, 790
Crow, 193, 413, 496, 729, 791;
white, 793
Crusades, 239, 525, 845, 863
Crystal, 800, 808, 889
Cucumber, 834
Cummin seed, 148
Cyme, 231
Dacdel, a spirit, 289
Daily life, medieval, 406
Danube, 525, 541
Darius, 896
Date, of life or works of, Adelard, chap. xxxvi, app. i;
William of Conches, 50-2;
John of Spain, 74ff.;
Hildegard, 127-8;
Michael Scot, 310-11;
Sacrobosco, 332;
Cantimpré and Bartholomew, 373-4, 402-3;
Grosseteste, 438;
Witelo, 456;
Vincent, 458-61;
Gilbert of England, 478;
John of St. Amand, 510;
Albert and Aquinas, 461, 522ff., 594ff.;
Roger Bacon, 619ff., 628-30;
Picatrix, 813;
Abano, 876, 880, 933-5;
of introduction of Aristotle, 194-5, 312-3, 708;
of Sompniale dilucidarium Pharaonis, 296;
of Speculum astronomiae, 707-9
Day and Days, observance of, 42, 116, 150, 283, 296, 301, 319, 420;
length of, 185
Deafness, 145-6
Death, time of, 887
Decans, 118, 221
Deer (including Doeskin, Roebuck, Stag), 144, 148, 210, 496, 508
Degree, medical, 504
Delphic oracle, 167
Desert, spirits in, 43, 344, 357;
writings in, 43, 399-400
Design, argument from, 30
Desire, as a factor in magic, 665
Devil, 6, 134, 138, 208, 284, 318;
and see Spirit
Dew, 144, 324
Diacodos, a stone, 556
Diadochos, a stone, 556
Diagram, 116, 249, 282-3, 323, 627, 648, 790-1, 865, 867
Dialectic, 24, 29, 70, 88, 734, 789
Dialogue, 23, 50
Diarrhoea, 513, 793
Dice, 158
Dictionary, 448, 458
Diet, 82, 201, 273, 300, 383, 480, 500, 546, 560, 818, 887
Digestion, 145, 880;
effect on dreams, 330
Dinner, 411, 833, 887
Dioptra, 112
Diplomacy, 843
Direction, observed, 231, 698;
and see Compass, points of
Disc, 279
Disease, 126, 480;
magic transfer of, 499, 852;
and see Spirit, Woman
Dispensation, 311-12
Divination, chap. xxxix, 72, 286, 835, 902;
and magic, 319, 559;
by demons, 358, 407;
natural, 154, 168, 212, 349, 605;
by opening Psalter, 295-6;
by eating parts of animals, 497-8, 658;
by polished surfaces, 158-9, 168, 320, 354, 364-5, 964;
by shoulder blades, 86;
by lots, numbers, names, 277, 319;
from clouds, 320;
from Kalends, 326;
forbidden varieties of, 814, 848;
other varieties, 14, 81, 158;
and see Dream, Liver, Moon, Sieve, Thunder; also Aerimancy, Augury Chiromancy, Geomancy, Hydromancy, Lot-casting, Pyromancy, etc.
Divining-rod, 557
Dog, 348, 385, 762;
to keep from barking, 729, 821;
to cause to follow you, 787;
use of parts of, 209, 332, 496-7, 500, 562-4, 574, 736, 788, 803;
mad, 210, 413, 563, 762
Dog-days, 252, 484, 856
Dolphin, 423, 505, 768
Domestic science, 409, 503ff.
Dominicans, 305, 339, 374, 453, 525, 594ff., 629, 832-3, 843-4, 945;
and see Bibliographies
Door, used in magic, 603;
affected by magic, 287, 558, 729, 744
Dove, 15, 321, 507, 539
Dragon, 236, 262ff., 352, 380, 737;
use of, 242;
combat with elephant, 562;
flying, 242, 433, 562, 657-8, 668;
the constellation, 418, 967
Dreams, and interpretation of, chap. l, 40, 272, 276, 487, 605, 708, 710, 728, 902;
Hildegard on, 154;
John of Salisbury, 161-4;
Michael Scot, 319, 326, 330;
Bartholomew, 412;
Vincent, 467;
Albert, 558-9, 575-7;
Arnald, 845, 847;
Cecco, 955-6, 958
Dreaming-places, 290
Dromedary, 318
Dropsy, 470, 473, 485, 588
Drugs, 766, 769, 817
Drum, 603, 819
Duck, 147, 909
Dung, 209, 232, 496, 561, 728, 850, 909
Dyes, 573, 787, 806
Eagle, 195, 242, 301, 364, 420, 473, 487, 541, 544, 761, 854
Ear, 505
Earache, 761
Earth, sphericity of the, 35, 439-40, 864;
virtue of, 140, 142, 147-8, 801-2;
not allowing things to touch the ground, 421
Earthquake, 294
Ear-wax, 561, 736, 817
Earwig, 761
Eccentric, of planet, 176, 444, 446, 672
Ecclesiastical elections, 606;
offices, 833
Echeneis or Echinus, 361, 379
Echo, 789
Eclipse, 68, 151, 223, 294, 325, 603, 804, 897;
during Christ’s passion, 160, 371, 961
Economics, 11, 426
Eden, Garden of, see Paradise
Editions, especially early printed, William of Conches, 53, 63;
Daniel Morley, 172-3;
Neckam, 189, 191;
Morienus, 215;
Prester John, 239;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 248, 267-8;
Artemidorus, 290-1;
Dream-Books of Daniel and Joseph, 294;
Morale Sompnium Pharaonis, 296;
Michael Scot, 307-8, 333;
William of Auvergne, 338;
Bartholomew, 401-3;
Vincent, 457;
Thesaurus pauperum, 490-1;
John of St. Amand, 510;
Aquinas, 594, 598;
Bacon, 617-8, 679;
Pseudo-Albert, 571, 721, 735, 737, 739;
Bonatti, 826;
Arnald, 846, 853;
Lull, 862;
Abano, 875, 882, 917-26, 935;
Abraham Aben Ezra, 927-8
Education, as experienced or discussed by, Hugh of St. Victor, 8-10;
Adelard, 20-24;
William of Conches, 50-55, 61;
Gerard of Cremona, 87-9;
John of Salisbury, 155ff.;
Daniel Morley, 172-4;
Neckam, 188-90;
Cantimpré, 374;
Bartholomew, 403;
Grosseteste, 437-8;
Vincent, 458;
Gilbert, 481;
Peter of Spain, 488-90;
Albert, 522-6;
Aquinas, 595-8, 601-2;
Bacon, 619-21, 627, 630ff., 640-2;
Peckham, 629;
Arnald, 843, 847;
Lull, 863;
Abano, 876-7, 879;
Cecco, 950, 952, 954
Edward I, king of England, 309, 483, 909
Eel, 541
Egg, 886-7
Egypt, 42, 83, 162, 174, 190, 216, 293, 300, 349, 449, 755, 831
Egyptian Days, 420, 469, 484, 856
Elder tree, 563
Elections, astrological, 148, 183-4, 186, 255, 325, 390, 587, 673-4, 700, 831, 833-4;
and see Ecclesiastical
Electricity, 906
Elements, 41-2, 56-7, 131, 136, 175-6, 242, 253, 275, 332, 334, 341, 360, 394, 420, 447, 462, 480, 564, 580, 594, 830, 836, 871, 886, 906;
not found pure, 34, 53, 175, 231;
harmony of, 671
Elephant, 403, 562, 646
Elijah, 801
Elysium, 12
Ematites, a gem, 908
Embassies, 238, 293, 843
Emerald, 143, 210, 236, 239, 363, 546-7, 553, 853, 908, 937
Empiricism, 209-10, 362, 482, 538, 657
Encyclopedias, medieval, chaps. liii, liv, lvi, 193, 315;
modern, 382-5
Endor, witch of, 167
England and English, chaps. xxxvi, xli, xlii, xliii, liv, 156, 375, 428, 619-20, 788, 799-800, 802-3, 811
Ephialtes, 360
Epicurean, 61, 165, 582
Epidaurus, 290
Epilepsy, 143, 145-7, 151, 209, 349, 413, 470, 496-7, 515, 847-8, 904
Epitaph, 522, 913, 934
Error, causes of, 630-1, 636, 681
Errors, lists of condemned, 355, 571, 694, 707-12, 869-71, 882-3
Esau, see Jacob and
Eschinus, see Echineis
Esculapides, 269
Ethics, 630-1
Ethiopia and Ethiopic, 433, 562, 592, 656-7
Etruscan, 11
Etymology, 192, 315, 481, 572
Eucharist, 549, 649, 903
Eugenics, 151, 587
Eugenius III, pope, 126
Eunuch, 737
Euphrates, 265
Evangelists, four, 160
Eve, first woman, 60, 474-5
Excrement, human, 484
Exercise, physical, 409, 887
Exorcism, 168, 227, 320, 352, 359, 365, 439, 699, 892, 912
Experience, Experimental method, etc., chaps. lxiii, lxiv, lxv;
and magic, 8, 227-8, 292, 343, 345, 347, 353, 546-9, 561, 658-9, 701, 707, 738, 820, 899, 977, 982;
and divination, 115, 118, 161, 168, 301, 320;
in 12th century astronomy and astrology, 67-71, 77-8, 87, 183-5;
medical, 15, 412;
in alchemy, 336;
of India, 237;
with worms, 386;
at Paris, 657;
of Adelard, 38-40;
Neckam, 192, 196-7, 200, 202;
Maimonides, 209-10;
Kiranides, 229;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 247, 249, 251, 257, 277;
Michael Scot, 316, 321, 329;
William of Auvergne, 341, 343, 345, 355, 360-4;
Bartholomew, 433;
Grosseteste, 439ff., 451;
Witelo, 454-5;
Peter of Spain, 494-5, 498-500, 507-10;
John of St. Amand, 510-13;
Albertus Magnus, 532, 534, 536, 538-48, 564, 566-72, 576;
Roger Bacon, 306, 335, 647-59, 662, 664, 666, 681, 683;
Arnald, 853-6, 859-60;
Bernard Gordon, 856-7;
Lull, 864;
Abano, 884, 893, 899, 906, 912
Eye, structure of, 498;
complaints and cures, 144, 363, 421, 469-70, 472, 484, 498, 506-7, 762, 766, 855, 860
Eyebrow, 144, 153, 498
Eye-glasses, 859
Eyelash, 144
Ezzelino, 827
Faith, requisite in magic, 160, 665, 817;
in medicine, 887;
and Reason, see Religion and science
Falcon and Falconry, 464, 562
Fame, love of, 273
Fascination, 169, 202, 248, 385, 553, 558, 574, 607-8, 614, 662, 664-5, 710, 900-2
Fasting, 143, 211, 227, 242, 413, 561, 604, 818, 909
Fat, 384, 504, 560, 909
Fate, 165, 462, 589-92, 613-5, 712, 866
Faun, 358
Feather, 144
Fee, physician’s, 881
Fennel, 508, 563
Ferdinand the Catholic, 864
Ferrara, 955, 965
Feudal, 30, 241, 424, 427, 634
Fever, 143-4, 151, 470, 504, 588, 886-7
Fig tree, 816
Filcrum coarton, a gem, 262
Finger and Fingers, middle, 140;
two, 231;
crossed, 790
Finland, magic of, 429
Fir tree, 139, 142-3, 200
Fire, the element, 41, 394, 420, 506, 817;
marvelous, 252;
use of, 144;
at Rome in 192 A. D., 752;
universal, 57;
ordeal of, 818
Fireworks, 736-7, 791, 804, 807
Fish, 135, 143-4, 263, 327, 360, 423, 466, 504-8, 851
Flea, 147, 737
Flood, 57, 136, 222, 452, 582, 745, 897
Florence, 825, 952-4, 967-8
Floron, a spirit, 965
Flowers of St. John, 536-7
Fly and Flies, 484, 736-7, 763, 959
Flying machine, 654-5
Foca, 232
Foliot, Gilbert, 181
Folk-lore, 380, 815
Foot, 729
Footprint, 332
Forlì, 825ff.
Form, 420;
specific, 565, 567, 854, 906;
and see Good
Fountain, 349;
marvelous, 180, 244;
of youth, 219, 242, 798
Fox, 194, 209, 500
France, 70, 376, 427, 453
Francesco of Mantua, 879
Francis, St., 862
Franciscans, 305, 335, 403, 415, 418, 617, 620, 626-9, 642, 675, 682, 712, 796, 863, 945
Franciscus de Fullano, 836
Frankincense, 556
Frederick I, Barbarossa, 240, 271
Frederick II, emperor, see other index
Frederick of Sicily, 845
Frenzy, 412, 761
Freudian theory, 468
Friars, 305, 373, 501, 830, 958
Frog, 347, 359, 482, 497, 545, 762, 781, 854
Fruit, 505-6, 887
Fumigation, 135, 224ff., 288, 482, 560, 698, 766, 780-1, 817, 850-1, 854, 892, 912
Fungi, 506
Furnace, 572
Gabriel, angel, 900
Galerites, 729
Gall, 484, 496, 504, 561, 767, 781, 807, 850, 909
Ganges, 236
Gascony, 426
Gaul, 4, 20, 24, 28, 50, 87, 156, 375, 386
Gems, Hildegard on, 142-3;
Neckam, 202;
of India, 236, 242ff.;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 252, 261ff., 275-6;
William of Auvergne, 363;
Thomas of Cantimpré, 387ff.;
Bartholomew and Arnold of Saxony, 430-2;
Vincent, 469-70;
Albert, 566-7, 727;
Abano, 908;
found in animals, 210, 386, 421, 544;
used by animals, 473
Generation, of various animals, 144, 359, 382, 386,
and corruption, 417, 446, 670, 894;
spontaneous, 137, 347, 465, 543, 728, 736-7, 744;
human, 328-9, 886, 894, 910-1;
magic, 353, 780
Genethlialogy, 451, 585
Genius, a kind of spirit, 104
Genoa, 638, 885
Gentian, 413
Gentiles, 174, 299, 462
Geocentric theory, 176
Geoffrey Plantagenet, 51
Geography, of Bartholomew, 406, 424-9;
Bacon, 645, 648;
other medieval, 396
Geomancy, chap. xxxix, 90, 237, 294, 319, 331, 445, 588, 606, 701-2, 707, 712, 835-8, 865, 869, 890, 912
Geometry, 83, 88, 299, 456, 485, 641, 648, 651, 790, 885
Geranium, 140
German language, 128, 540-1;
scholarship, 518-9
Germany, 375, 403, 405, 525, 558, 740
Gesha, a gem, 261
Gesticulation, 209
Gild, 651, 879;
and see Artisan
Girdle, 143-8, 265-6
Girl, magic power, 146;
medieval, 411;
who ate spiders, 544;
and see Virgin
Glass, mirror, 190, 199;
chapel, 244;
cask, cave, or submarine, 263;
vessels, 321, 372, 387;
spheres and tigress, 543;
perspective-, 680;
lantern, 785
Glaucus of Beneventum, 761
Gloss and Glossator, 327, 764
Glow-worm, 737, 786
Glue, 788
Gnostic, 857, 867
Goat, 385, 546, 854
Goat-milker, 473
God and gods, celestial, 530;
terrestrial, 350;
factitious, 350;
name of, 224, 352, 391, 407, 873;
Adelard avoids discussion of, 41;
Lull on, 865, 872;
miscellaneous, 893;
and stars, see Star and Astrology;
and nature, see Religion and Science
Gold, 202, 224, 236, 817, 855, 858, 899, 908;
potable, 806, 854
“Good form,” 981
Goose, 147, 505, 793
Gothic cathedrals, 536
Gout, 482, 807, 847, 887
Grammar, 52, 72, 129, 156, 325, 439, 644, 648, 788
Gravitation, force of, 35-6
Greece, 20, 184, 546
Greek, 178, 241, 437, 640-1, 644-5
Greek fire, 31, 736, 784ff.
Green, 35
Gregory VIII, pope, 76
Gregory IX, pope, 231-2
Gregory X, pope, 490
Gregory XI, pope, 864
Griffin, 236, 420, 541, 546
Gualfridinus, 957
Guido of Montefeltro, 828
Guido of Valencia, bishop of Tripoli, 270
Gunpowder, 31, 688-91, 736, 786, 793;
noiseless, 807
Gurkhan of Kara Khitai, 240
Guy de Foulques, 622;
and see Clement IV
Gymnosophists, 378
Gypsum, 910
Hadrian, emperor, 860
Hair, 331, 483, 496, 563, 744, 834;
tonic, 565, 793
Ham, son of Noah, first magician, 321, 449, 911
Hand, 31;
clapping, 819
Hardewin the Teuton, 156
Hare, 736, 817
Harlot, 348
Harpy, 541
Haruspex, 166, 319, 553
Hawk, 15, 200
Hazel rod, 361, 512, 659, 662, 690
Head, magic, speaking, etc., 680, 825
Headache, 144, 146, 412, 761
Hearsay, 381, 542
Heart, physiology of, 298-9, 513, 907;
use of, 144-7, 232, 362, 384, 422, 497-8, 555, 574, 729, 767, 851;
disease, 508, 880
Heat and Hot, 142, 817
Heaven and Heavens, one or many? 131ff., 176-7, 275, 322, 332, 414-6, 581;
animated? 287, 333, 367;
empyrean, 355-6, 414-5;
revolution of eighth sphere, 871, 895-6;
and see Stars, Music of Spheres, Waters above firmament
Hebrew and Hebrews, 67, 120, 174, 192, chap. xliv, 261, 268, 272, 286, 312, 363, 437, 495, 640-1, 644-5, 778, 780, 824, 863, 877-8, 926, 930, 937
Hecate, 279
Hedge-hog, 762
Heliotrope, an herb, 724, 728;
a gem, 361, 363, 429, 470, 961
Hellenistic, 678
Helun, a beast, 148
Hemorrhage, 469, 853
Hemorrhoids, 432
Hen, 484
Henry VII, emperor, 933
Henry I, king of England, 23, 48, 69, 72
Henry II, king of England, 21, 49, 51, 65, 156, 160
Henry III, king of England, 619, 675
Henry VII, king of England, 181, 827
Henry of Eastry, 25
Herbs, Hildegard on, 141-2;
Kiranides, 231, 233-4;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 275-6;
William of Auvergne, 362;
Vincent, 472-3;
Albert, 555-6, 564-6, 727;
in sculpture, 536-7;
miscellaneous, 505, 656, 851;
plucking of, 140-1, 160, 209, 234, 466, 472, 482, 556, 608, 728
Heredity, 910, 956
Heresy, 127, 239, 531, 831, 944;
and see Errors, Inquisition
Hermaphrodite, 109, 329, 376
Heron, 144-5, 513
Herring fisheries, 386
Hippocratic school, 769;
for Hippocrates see other index
History, Hugh of St. Victor on, 11;
Bacon on, 646-7;
modern critical, 685,
uncritical, 980;
ages of, 475;
and astrology, 42, 647, 897,
and see Conjunctions;
of astronomy, 321-2;
of science, 533-4, 681;
of magic, 647, 659-60
Hole, 482
Holm oak, 135
Holy Ghost, 152, 367
Holy salt, 353
Holy wafer, 903
Holy water, 353, 850
Homeopathy, 907
Honey, 324, 393, 434, 506, 565, 795, 817
Honorius III, pope, 311
Honorius IV, pope, 881, 935
Hoopoe, 288, 362, 421-2, 497, 555, 729, 763
Horaeus, 52
Horn and Horns, used, 496, 854;
magic, 264;
why men don’t have, 30
Horoscope, 14, 107, 672, 956
Horse, 262, 359, 390;
meat, 506;
wild, 904
Hour, observance of, 201-3, 293, 300, 327, 344, 670-1, 819, 855;
length of, 185
House, astrological, 5, 486, 871-2;
marvelous, 782
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, 172
Howard, William, Lord, 172
Hubert de Burgh, 675
Hubert Walter, 478
Hugo Eterianus, 292
Human body, physiology of, 57, 152, 192, 311, 499-500, 886;
virtue of, 734, 907;
use of parts of, 142-3, 474, 480, 496, 816-7;
is human flesh nutritious?, 503;
how poisoned?, 907
Humanism of twelfth century, 51, 191
Humors, 150-2, 762
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, 121
Hundred Years War, 406
Hunting, 157
Hydromancy, 86, 320, 701-2
Hyena, 199, 544
Hygiene, 886
Hyperborean, 440
Hypnotism, 346, 467, 901
Hyssop, 227
Ice, 148, 818
Idolatry, 343-4, 698, 702
Idols, of Lucretius, 667;
of Francis Bacon, 681
Illuminated manuscripts, 15, 111-2, 117-8, 121, 263, 286, 322, 761, 788, 827
Illumination of mind and soul, 362, 865
Image, engraved and astrological, 158, 164-5, 177, 220, 223ff., 231-2, 251, 257-8, 275-6, 280, 287ff., 327, 351, 370, 388ff., 399-400, 469-70, 549, 579, 588, 603, 615, 658, 673-4, 676, 731, 802, 815ff.;
Albert on, 567;
Aquinas, 610-1;
Speculum astronomiae, 696, 698ff.;
Bonatti, 835;
Arnald, 857-9;
Abano, 898-900, 908;
Cecco, 958-9;
wax, 814, 818, 835;
other magic, 264, 349, 806
Imagination, power of, 608, 614, 911
Impotence, 605, 821, 850, 853
Incantation, chap. lxvi, 141ff., 160, 232, 237, 242-3, 258, 275-6, 320;
in Vincent, 466, 470;
in 13th century medicine, 482-3, 498, 851-2, 858;
Albert, 563, 574;
Aquinas on, 608;
Bacon, 621, 652, 661-5, 669;
Abano, 889-90, 900, 902-4;
Cecco, 953;
in books of experiments, 731, 780, 788, 802-3, 807;
experiments that work as well without, 361, 513, 662;
and see Notory Art; Words, power of
Incense, 817, 820
Incubus, 299, 353, 358, 897, 960
India, chap. xlviii, 92, 224, 236-7, 293, 300, 325, 336, 346-7, 433, 588, 645-6, 656, 786, 885, 894, 898-9
Indicum, 434
Infancy and Infant, 32, 332, 834, 957;
and see Child-birth
Ink, 288, 788, 800, 806;
invisible, 467;
and see Writing
Innocent IV, pope, 309, 459, 943
Innocent V, pope, 525
Innocent VIII, pope, 743
Inoculation, 907
Inquisition, 206-7, 368;
Bacon and, 31, 688-9;
Arnald and, 843, 846;
Spanish, 851;
Délicieux and, 860-1;
Lull, 864;
Abano, 875, 881, 934, 938-47;
Cecco, chap. lxxi
Insanity, 142-3
Insect, 537
Insomnia, of Rasis, 754, 766
Instruments, scientific, 29-30, 454, 627, 652-3, 884;
musical, see Music
Intellect, active, 631, 633;
unity of, 633
Intent, as a factor in magic, 665
Interpolations, 240, 461-6, 492, 722
Interrogations, astrological, 183-6, 255, 326, 370, 390, 579, 701, 711, 832-3, 893;
of geomancy, 838
Intestines, 470, 899
Inventions, church and, 30-1;
Roger Bacon and, 651, 654-5, 682-3;
Francis Bacon and, 681;
magic and, 975-6
Invisible, to become, 232, 287, 363, 387, 470, 603, 729, 800, 961;
and see Writing
Ionicon, 322
Ireland and Irish, 190, 236, 408
Iron, use of, 232, 793;
taboo of, 386, 496, 819;
oriental, 392
Irrigation, 249, 601
Israelites, 389
Italy and Italian, chaps, lxvii, lxx, lxxi, 824, 925
Jacinth, 141
Jacob and Esau, 469, 591
Jacob of Brescia, 952
Jacob of Padua, 941
James II, king of Aragon, 843-6
Jasper, 135, 331, 364, 389, 470
Jaundice, 482, 561
Jealousy, 54, 248, 769, 910, 967
Jerusalem, 160, 216, 239
Jew and Jewish, chap. xliv, 42, 195, 278, 288, 290, 299, 314, 389
Joachimite ideas, 842
John the Baptist, feast of, 483, 537
John XXII, pope, 713, 881, 935-8
John XXIII, pope, 644
John, bishop of Norwich, 174
John, patriarch of India, 239
John Orbelian, 240
John Venibene, 956
John of Vicenza, 831-2
John, see Prester, and other index
Joints, of fingers and toes, 324;
pains in, 752
Joseph’s divining cup, 159
Judges in schemes of divination, 113ff.
Juggler, 789
Julian, father of Peter of Spain, 488
Julius Caesar, 896
Juno, used for planet Venus, 109
Jupiter, the planet, 418, 583, 672, 834-5
Jusquiam, an herb, 496, 556, 725, 733
Kathariel, spirit of Saturn, 323
Katherine, St., 327
King and Kingship, discussed, 268, 272-3, 909;
as patron of learning, 189;
predictions for, 296, 302, 583-4, 672, 895-6
Knife, 111, 789
Knot, in magic and divination, 429, 819
Laboratory, 216, 538, 572, 653
Ladder of Hermes, 481
Lamp, experiment with, 737, 782;
marvelous, 786
Land and water on earth’s surface, 645
Langton, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, 311-2
Language and Languages, 728;
scientific study of, 81, 192, 630, 640, 644-7, 863;
of animals or birds, 730, 782
Lantern, 785
Laon, 47
Lar, 357
Lateran Council, Second, 31;
Fourth, 465
Latin, learning, 70-1, 174, 375, 644, 677;
and see Education, Scholasticism, Style, Textual criticism, Translation
Laudanum, 324-5
Laurel, 506, 728, 816
Law, canon, 158, 189, 329-30, 631, 668, 931;
Mosaic, 162, 208, 212, 345, 371, 386;
Roman, 172-3, 179, 189, 193, 634, 636, 647, 896, 931;
miscellaneous, 273, 733, 834;
and see Inquisition, Legislation, Trial
Laxative, 275, 504, 565
Lead, 224, 392, 802, 817, 857;
pencil, 173
Leather, 860
Left hand, etc., used or preferred, 231-2, 329, 482, 736, 762-3, 854, 887
Legislation, concerning magic, 284, 660, 814
Lemon pips, 210
Lens, magnifying, 440-1, 456, 668
Lent, 465
Leopard, 145, 817, 909
Leprosy, 147, 331, 413, 573, 791
Lettuce, 564
Levitation, 359, 821, 904
Liberal arts, seven, 8, 23, 72, 190, 449, 788ff., 889;
and see Quadrivium
Libraries, medieval, 62, 462, 627, 677, 845
Ligatures and suspensions, 14, 140, 142-3, 160, 209, 433, 470, 482, 494, 496, 498, 561, 573, 608, 736, 762-3, 769, 779, 793, 853-4, 902
Light, 332, 344, 456, 591-2, 899
Lightning, 564
Like loves like, 732
Lily, 728
Lincoln cathedral, 536
Linen, 391, 763
Liniment, 780
Lion, 57, 145, 361, 631, 732, 762;
Thomas of Cantimpré on, 381-5;
use of parts of, 243, 433, 560, 732-3;
figure of, 857-8, 899
Lioness, amours of, 384, 563
Liturgy, 292, 801
Liver, disease, 565;
divination, 299, 486;
use of, 135, 145, 148, 393, 484, 496-7, 561, 764
Livonia, 403
Lizard, 484, 786
Locusts, to avert, 854
Logic, 4, 155-7, 247, 489, 648, 865, 886;
magic, 144-7
Longevity, 655, 658, 894, 899;
predictable, 149, 701;
and see Fountain of youth
Loosing bonds, 729, 737
Lord’s Prayer, 116, 120, 296, 467, 482, 608, 801, 848, 851-2, 952
Lorraine, 427
Lot-casting, 111ff., 320, 606-7, 662, 707;
and see Geomancy, and in other index Sortes sanctorum
Louis IX, St., king of France, 448, 458-9
Louis of Bavaria, emperor, 954
Love, 349, 731, 958;
charms and potions, 291, 555, 731, 736-7, 802, 808
Lunacy, 145, 907
Lung, 143, 145, 412, 565
Lynx, 200
Lyons, Council of, 526
Machinery, 654-5
Magi, who came to Christ child, 6, 111, 239, 318, 483, 497, 553, 591, 611-2, 614, 904, 961;
of Persia and east, 291;
Prester John and, 239;
Michael Scot on, 318
Magic, chaps, lxiii, lxv, lxvi;
discussed by Hugh of St. Victor, 13-5;
Hildegard, 138-9;
John of Salisbury, 157;
Maimonides, 208-9;
Michael Scot, 318-21;
William of Auvergne, 341-9, 353-4;
Albert, 548-60, 704-6;
Aquinas, 602-5;
Bacon, 659-63, 704-6;
Cecco, 963-4;
Pico della Mirandola, 970;
as an art, 605;
use or abuse of nature, 139;
materials employed, 138-9, 227, 603;
personal requirements of magician, 209, 604-5, 733, 817-8;
relation to science and medicine, 8, 79-80, 138-9, 559-60, 604-5, 663, 666, 816, 848, 977, 982;
reality of, 319-20, 603;
fraud and illusion of, 14, 343, 345, 349, 358, 585, 660-1, 669, 821, 975;
evil, 319-20, 604, 713;
good or natural, 237, 339, 343, 346-7, 550, 554, 970;
immunity from, 352-3, 553, 731;
marvelous results of, 603, 821;
history of, 647, 659-60, 911;
final definition, 973ff.;
of the present, 979-81;
and see Accusation, Legislation, Maleficium, Necromancy, Sorcery, Witchcraft, etc.
Magna Graecia, 46
Magnet, 48, 143, 261, 316, 359, 361, 388, 482, 524, 556, 566, 607, 734, 769, 791, 854, 907;
magnetic poles, 907
Magnus annus, 203, 370, 418, 589, 710, 744, 895
Majorca, 862-64
Maleficium, 14, 158, 320, 347, 551, 604, 901;
personified, 138-9
Mallow plant, 140
Mandragora, 135, 139, 142, 817
Manfred, king of Sicily, 221, 254, 757, 930, 965
Mani and Manicheism, 60, 611, 672
Mania, 408, 858
Manna, 243, 324-5, 393
Mansions of sun or moon, 113ff., 183, 223, 699, 820
Mantike, 14
Manuel Comnenus, emperor, 230, 240, 292
Manuscripts, are discussed too frequently in notes and text to index;
for individual MSS see Index of Manuscripts;
for Illuminated MSS see Illumination
Maps, 426
Marble, 386, 737
Marduch, 298
Maria or Marietta, Abano’s housekeeper, 940, 946
Maria, a star, 387
Mariner’s compass, see Compass
Marriage, 605, 850
Mars, the planet, 418, 583
Marseilles, 91-3, 181, 206, 486-7, 638, 844
Marsilius de Carrara, 943
Martin IV, pope, 828
Martin de Oliviera, 937
Martyr and Martyrdom, 333, 682, 863, 949
Marvels, chap. lxiii;
of Toledo, 174;
of Prester John, 241ff.;
and experience, 655, 734;
of art and nature, 663-8, 733-4, 737-8;
cures, 768-9
Mary, the Virgin, 355, 549, 672
Mass, sacrament of, 800, 851
Matesis, see Mathesis
Mathematica, 14
Mathematical method, 647-9, 682
Mathematics, 438, 630, 803, 813;
teaching of, 641
Mathematicus, 11, 148, 309, 418, 445, 553, 580, 669
Mathesis, 11, 158, 319, 580, 669
Matilda, wife of Henry I of England, 45
Matter, 181, 368, 420, 581, 633, 699;
eternity or indestructibility of, 36, 208
Mead, 434
Meal, 148, 506
Measurement, 653
Meat, cooked made to appear raw, 787
Mechanical devices, 654, 661, 669, 865
Medicine, chaps. lvii, lviii, lxiv, lxviii, lxx, 289, 533-6, 542, 802, 804, 807, 828;
of Hildegard, 126, 130;
Secret of Secrets, 273;
Michael Scot, 331;
Bartholomew, 412-3;
Lull, 866-7, 872;
theological attitude toward, 15, 168, 364, 369;
and see Astrological, History of, etc.
Melancholy, 137, 145, 408, 506, 850, 907
Melon, 834
Memory, 34, 584
Menstrual fluid, 329, 332, 470
Mephus, a tree, 781
Mercenaries, English companies of, 802
Merchant, 273, 349
Mercury, metal, 471, 573,
and see Quicksilver;
planet, 234, 325, 672, 955
Merlin, 190, 331, 954, 960
Mermaid, 544
Meropis, an herb, 555
Metals and Metallurgy, 32, 217, 392, 459, 572, 788, 806;
and see Planets and, Alchemy
Meteor, 562
Methodism, in medicine, 499
Michael, the angel, 288, 900
Michael, bishop of Tarazona, 86-7, 257
Microcosm, 153, 174, 325, 377, 446, 577, 586
Microscope, 112, 441
Middle ages, influence in, of early Christian literature, 53, 157;
Adelard, 43;
William of Conches, 61-2;
Daniel of Morley, 180-1;
and see Classical Heritage
Midnight, 140, 144
Milk, cow’s, 434, 728-9, 793, 887;
woman’s, 32, 505, 563, 744;
other, 496, 505, 737
Mill, 351, 787
Millionaires, 349
Mind, occult virtue of, 557, 731, 849, 902
Mining, 545
Mineralogy, 261, 545, 573
Minium, 434, 573
Miracle, 552, 631;
of apostle Thomas, 238-9;
John of Vicenza, 831;
distinguished from magic, 148, 160-1, 602-3;
denied, 944
Mirror, 177, 190, 199, 262, 442;
comic and magic, 243, 287, 789, 806, 817;
and see Divination by polished surfaces, Optics
Miserere, 296
Missionary, 863
Mob, see Populace
Modern, 25-6, 58, 86-7, 91, 210, 413, 450-1, 464, 495, 548, 729
Modesty or lack of, in writers, 406, 499, 643, 761, 764
Mohammed and Mohammedanism, 20, 42, 672, 863, 897-8
Mole, 147, 288, 336, 341, 545, 737, 793
Monasticism, 14, 189ff., 299, 363, 381, 437, 487, 490, 634, 758, 761, 806, 838
Monster, 264, 358, 433, 537;
and see Chimaera
Monstrous races, 241, 376
Monte Cassino, 595-6
Monteus, “friend,” 759-60
Montfort, Simon de, 448, 622
Month, specified, 856
Montheus, see Monteus
Montpellier, 190, 200, 336, 525, 843, 845, 852-3, 863, 881, 935
Moon, controls generation and corruption, 145, 150-1, 164, 326, 329, 393;
observance of, 113, 116, 143, 148, 152-3, 209, 234, 319, 323, 325, 467, 569, 588, 671, 795, 856;
relation to other planets and to signs, 484-5, 804;
man in, 192;
addressed, 819;
and see Bleeding, Mansions of
Moonbeam, 72, 202
Moon-tree, 389
Morea, 231
Morphea, a disease, 471
Moth, 560
Mouse, 146, 393, 817, 909
Mountain, 236, 424
Mouth, holding in, 143
Moving picture, 384
Murder, 482
Muscle, 158, 565
Music, 790;
divisions of, 37;
and astrology, 40;
and medicine, 445, 887;
instruments, 45, 363, 435;
of the spheres, 203, 325
Myrtle, 506
Mysticism, 9, 272, 764
Mythology, 57, 191
Nahe river, 126, 132
Nail, metal, 148, 209
Nail parings, 483, 834
Names, see Christ, God, Place, and Words, power of
Naples, 284, 314, 596-7, 757, 843, 959
Napoleon, 785
Narce, 780
Narcotic, 559;
and see Anaesthetic
Nasturtium, 565
Nativities, 152, 212, 255, 300, 326, 369, 585, 700, 893, 895, 955-6
Nature, 733, 857;
nothing impure in, 30;
medieval love of, 537
Navigation, 80, 177, 236, 654;
and see Compass
Nebuchadnezzar, 299, 449, 897-8;
era of, 898
Necromancy, chap. lxvi, 166;
Michael Scot on, 319, 322, 327;
William of Auvergne, 343, 358;
Albert, 549-52, 555-6, 579;
Bacon, 661;
at Paris, 707, 713;
in experimental books, 782, 800, 803;
Arnald on, 848-50;
Lull and theistic argument from, 861, 872-3;
relation to science, 72, 80, 177, 346, 734;
images of, 258, 280, 356, 696, 698, 701, 705-6, 731, 899-900;
Abano and, 912, 946;
Cecco and, 963-6
Nectanebus, 246, 264, 350, 587, 700
Needle, 227
Neo-Platonism, 531
Nero, emperor, 134
Nestorians, 239
Nightingale, 144
Night time, and magic, 319, 899, 976;
and see Midnight
Nigromancy, see Necromancy
Nile, 583
Nine, 143, 280, 496, 563
Nitrate, 484
Noah, 254;
as one of three Hermeses, 215, 222;
sons of, 837
Nogaret, 843
Noiseless guns and powder, 807
Noon, 140
Norman and Normandy, 45, 51
Nose, why above mouth, 30
Nosebleed, 761
Notebook, 264
Notory art, chap. xlix, 235, 319, 604, 903-4
Nudity, 802
Number, observed and perfect, 53, 276-7, 366, 444, 485, 702, 904
Numerals, Hindu-Arabic, 237, 312
Nymph, 357
Oak, 387
Obscenity, in magic or medicine, 561, 743-4, 817
Observation, by Adelard, 39;
medieval astronomers, 186, 262;
Bartholomew, 406;
Witelo, 456;
Albert, 532, 534, 539-41, 547;
sculptors, 536-7;
Bacon, 652;
reputed Chaldean, 838;
Arnald, 843, 864;
Abano, 884
Occult virtue, discussed in general by, John of Salisbury, 160-1;
Neckam, 201-2;
Maimonides, 209-10;
Michael Scot, 324, 331;
William of Auvergne, 361ff.;
Thomas of Cantimpré, 387-8;
Peter of Spain, 494, 507, 511;
Albert, 565-6;
Aquinas, 607;
Bacon, 664, 667;
Arnald, 854-5;
Abano, 892-3;
relation to fetishism and animism, 893;
miscellaneous, 766, 769, 779, 972
Octave, 203, 325
Odor, 434, 905
Oil, 413, 484, 505-6, 561, 737, 753, 762, 766, 786, 817
Old men, death of, desired, 526
Old-wives, 351, 358, 482, 608, 662, 851, 853;
and see Witch
Oliviera, Martin de, 937
Olympias, mother of Alexander, 587
Olympus, Mt., 242
Omens and portents, 159-60, 301
Onager, or wild ass, 474
Onocentaur, 380
Onyx, 243
Ophites, a Gnostic sect, 867
Opthalmius, a gem, 729
“Opinion,” in animals, 35
Opium, 496, 755
Optics, 80, 89, 409, 592;
Grosseteste, 438, 440-3;
Witelo, 454-6;
Roger Bacon, 619, 629-30, 638, 649, 667-8;
optical illusions, 561, 736, 787, 885
Oracle, 269, 291, 298
Orbelian, John, 240
Ordeal, 736-7, 786, 903
Originality, 10, 53, 131, 618, 635, 764
Origanum, an herb, 508, 564
Ostia, 279
Ostrich, 386, 541
Ouija board, 110
Owl, 195, 336, 729
Ox, 807
Oxford, 190, 355, 438, 525, 621, 629, 634, 637-8, 685-6, 863
Oyster, 191
Padua, 456, 523, 875-6, 879-83, 888-9, 914-6, 930-3, 941-7
Paganism, 102, 141, 288
Pain, 886
Painting, 889
Palazzo della Ragione, 889
Palermo, 638
Palestine, 244
Palmistry, 282;
and see Chiromancy
Pamphile, a witch, 975-6
Pan, a kind of spirit, 104
Panacea, 471
Papacy, 238-9, 596;
and poisons, 905, 909, 938;
papal physicians, 244-5, 479, 490, chap. lviii, 844-6, 881;
other patronage of science, 311-2, 622ff., 643, 689, 758, 881, 901, 939, 945;
abuses at papal court, 437
Paradise, 198, 238, 242, 387, 462, 474
Paralysis, 145, 506, 560, 588, 768, 887
Parchment, 227, 288, 482, 627, 788, 800
Pard, 382
Parietary, 852
Paris, and university of, 4, 52, 155, 172-3, 189, 237, 306, 313-4, 339, 355, 362, 374, 381, 403, 405, 415, 427, 489-90, 523-8, 545, 576, 595ff., 601, 628, 634, 637-40, 645, 657, 675, 694, 707, 712, 742, 792, 801, 803, 842-4, 863, 869-71, 877, 915, 929
Parliament, 621
Parrot, 473
Parsley, 508, 565
Partridge, 496
Paternoster, see Lord’s prayer
Patriarchs, 283, 632, 646, 671, 894
Paul, apostle, 333;
potion of, 481, 860
Paul II, pope, 832
Peacock, 195
Pearl, 513
Peking, 674
Pelican, 542
Penalty, 273
Penance, 391, 952
Penates, 358
Pentagon, 280, 288, 351
Peony, 209, 359
People, 273
Pepper, 472, 506, 733, 817, 851
Peripatetic, 37, 70, 450, 584, 896, 902, 939
Persecution, reputed cases of, 31, 311, 620ff., 628, 674-7, 682, 685, 707
Persia and Persian, 228, 239-40, 261, 278, 293, 299-300, 449, 612, 898
Persian fire, 565
Personification, 23, 48, 102
Perspective, see Optics
Peter III, king of Aragon, 843
Peter, Judex de Altichino, 933
Pharaoh’s fig, 877;
magicians, 8, 296, 350, 408, 552
Pharmacy, 480, 856
Philip of Macedon, 262
Philip IV, the Fair, king of France, 843, 938
Philology, see Etymology, and Languages, scientific study of
Philosopher’s stone, 215ff., 802
Philosophy, Greek, 25, 30, 174, 179, 195, 480;
history of, 448-50, 646-7;
medieval, 53, 70, 157, 340, 522, 630, 635, 637, 765, 889-91;
divisions of, 283;
and magic, 72, 663
Phison river, 239
Phoenix, 532
Phoenicia, 361
Physica, 10, 160
Physics, 72, 89, 198, 591, 649, 765
Physicus, 422
Physiognomy, 169, 328-9, 485, 575, 887, 890, 910
Physiology, 408
Pie, 505
Pietro di Tarantasia, see Innocent V
Pig, 57, 325, 412, 505, 764, 766
Pill, 140, 331, 482, 753, 761, 769
Pisa, 638
Pith, 563
Place names, 30
Placides, 791
Plagiarism, 88, 216, 626-7
Plagues of Egypt, 223, 352, 583
Planetary week, 203
Planets, motion, 195;
properties, 57, 417-8, 820, 829, 834-5, 849, 868-9;
and metals, 42, 323, 335, 445, 452, 797;
and herbs, 908;
and human body, 486, 833, 855-6;
and religious change, 42, 370, 672,
and see Conjunctions;
spirits of, 323, 820, 888, 900
Plantagenet, an herb, 139, 482
Plaster, 324, 412, 480, 766, 852
Plate, metal, 854
Platonism, 5, 55, 178
Plumbing, 392, 678
Plurality of benefices, 312
Poetry, 100, 191, 862
Poison, Maimonides on, 210-1;
Abano, 904-10;
poisonous human beings, 277, 483, 544;
other cases of, 413, 483, 504, 714, 861;
safeguards against, 144, 242, 386,
and see Antidote
Poland, 454, 526, 545
Politics, 11, 953-4
Poplar, 506
Populace and Popular risings, control of stars over, 369, 586, 610, 671, 890;
and see Vulgus
Pork, 147, 505
Pottery, 34, 572, 801
Practica, 801-2
Practical utility, Roger Bacon’s insistence on, 630, 641, 651, 678, 681
Practice, medical, 480, 575, 684, 740, 761, 881
Praestigium, 15, 320, 551, 556
Prayer, 55, 126, 274, 327, 369, 549, 666;
and see Incantation, Lord’s Prayer, Notory art
Predestination, 866
Prester John, chap. xlvii, 270
Priest, 39, 391, 497, 740-2, 835, 850
Priscillianists, 611
Private parts, 480, 561
Professions, learned, 54, 317, 769
Prometheus, 647
Prophecy, 168, 212, 354, 357, 359, 461, 558, 902
Providence, 166, 589
Psychology, 408, 461, 497
Pulse, 887
Pun, 189
Purgatory, 286, 325
Purification, 142, 288, 320, 352, 729
Purple, 231, 421
Pygmy, 357
Pyrenees, 322
Pyrites, 431
Pyromancy, 86, 701-2
Pythagorean, 487, 566, 574, 895
Quadrivium, 10, 22, 80, 156
Quadruped, 145ff.
Qualities, four, 34, 54, 480, 507, 733, 871, 886;
innate, 732
Quicklime, 782, 785, 793
Quicksilver, 263, 499, 500, 573, 793, 797, 907;
and see Mercury
Quinquefolium, an herb, 725
Quinsy, 852-3, 858
Rabbi, 206, 209
Races, monstrous, 241, 376
Radiation of force, light, etc., 443, 455, 648, 667, 906
Rainbow, 440, 547, 652
Rain-making, 780-1, 910, 976
Rain-water, 133
Raphael, the angel, 288, 900
Rat, 792
Raymond, archbishop of Laon, 33, 627
Raymond, archbishop of Toledo, 73, 76
Readers and Reading, medieval, 10, 481
Reason, process of, 299, 317, 983;
and experience, 28-9, 78, 298-301, 499, 508ff., 727, 734, 765, 854-5;
life of, 981
Red, used, 231, 413, 482
Red Sea, 236, 387, 729
Reed, 363, 497
Reformed churches, 845
Reflection and Refraction, see Optics
Regulus, a serpent, 905
Reims, 340
Relics, 601
Religion, medieval attitude, 192, 493, 528, 571, 649, 678, 764-7, 779, 826, 888, 939;
and magic and astrology, 42, 284, 370, 962;
and science, 28, 31, 58-62, 131, 168-9, 175, 179ff., 197-8, 207-8, 305-6, 327-8, 340ff., 415, 439, 530-1, 600ff., 631-2, 640, 644, 709-13, 863, 939, 971-2;
and see Theology
Renaissance, 273, 593, 883
Reputation for magic, see Accusation of
Resurrection of the body, 355-6, 671, 944
Resuscitation of corpses, 287, 656, 831, 903
Revelation, 647, 855
Revolutions, astrological, 700, 832-4, 895-6, 960
Rhetoric, 24, 72, 100, 296-7, 341, 788-9
Rheum, 858
Rialto, 244
Rich, Edmund, archbishop of Canterbury, 459
Richard I, king of England, 188
Richard, bishop of Bayeux, 21, 44ff.
Riddles, 789
Right, hand, etc., used or preferred, 144-6, 231, 329, 421, 482, 508, 729-30, 762, 767, 854, 887
Ring, 143, 280, 321, 351, 387, 793, 853, 908, 959
Ringworm, 473
River, 132-3, 802
Roads, medieval, 623
Robbers, 232, 574
Robert, king of Naples, 846, 967
Romances, medieval vernacular, 263
Rome, 189, 239, 525, 596-7, 629, 861, 863
Rose, 561, 787;
oil of, 384
Royal Society, 804
Ruddy complexion, 336
Rue, 386;
eaten by weasel, 506
Ruins excavated, 526
Rustic experience, 509
Sabians, 756
Sacrament, last, 832
Sacrifice, 228, 288, 321, 347, 556, 603, 652, 666, 669, 755, 817, 820;
human, 319-21, 964
Saffron, 140, 820
Saga, Norse, 540
Sage, the spice, 790
Saint, see Canonization, Relics
St. Albans, 188
Saladin, 206
Sal ammoniac, 472, 793, 797
Salamander, 242, 473, 909
Salary, professor’s, 931-3
Salerno, 46, 190, 200, 210, 482, 757, 851
Saliva, 142ff., 202, 211, 277, 360, 483, 561, 817, 860
Salmon, 143
Salt, 336, 453, 483, 573, 797;
and see Holy
Saltpeter, 690, 737, 793, 807
Salvia, 386, 744, 790
Sanjar the Seljuk, 240
Sapphire, 242, 363, 431, 553, 566, 855
Sardonix, a gem, 242
Sarpedon, 290
Satia, a spirit, 358
Satire, 872
Saturn, the planet, 57, 289, 418, 820, 869, 894
Satyr, 358
Saxony, 526, 545
Scab, 473
Scammony, 511
Scarification, 412
Scepticism, see Credulity and
Schism, papal, 126
Scholasticism, chap. xxxv, 19, 26, 272, 315, 502, 613, 632-3, 641, 647, 681, 730, 738, 885
Scholiast and Scholium, 232
Sciatica, 761
Scientific spirit, curiosity, etc., 27, 31ff., 139, 196-7, 406, 503ff., 535ff., 657, 663, 792, 816, 886, 891-2, 970-1, 978-9;
and see Experience, Observation, Religion and science
Scorpion, 210, 383, 413, 561, 699, 768, 796, 899
Scot and Scotland, 428
Sculpture, 536-7
Sea, 132, 341;
of sand, 242
Sea-calf, 899;
fowl, 190;
serpent, 544
Seasons, four, 300, 886-7
Secrecy, 197, 224, 258, 265, 267, 271, 284, 299, 320, 571, 621, 625, 636, 663, 754, 761, 763, 765, 805, 835, 905, 982
Seed, grows instantly, 782
Semen, 332, 345
Sense, deceived, 789;
of nature, 348, 350, 361, 407;
origin of all ideas, 847
Sepulcher, 423
Serf and Servant, 410
Sermon, 375-6, 634, 952
Serpentaria, a root, 908
Seven, 41, 72, 111, 153, 224, 276, 323, 392, 498, 563, 737, 788, 817-9, 866
Seven Sleepers, 725, 759
Sex and Sexual, observed in magic, 147, 353, 494, 563, 736, 899;
predicted, 329, 469, 590, 744, 838;
controlled, 730;
medieval and modern attitude to discussion of, 742-3;
of snake, 413;
of palms, 361;
of planets, 164, 417;
intercourse, 224, 329, 331, 353, 358, 382, 546, 561, 901
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 298
Shaving the head, 142, 412, 563
Sheep, 190, 348, 733
Sheepskin, 147
Shem, 321, 449
Ship, 349, 835
Shipwreck, 232
Shirt, 483
Shoe, 143
Sicily, 30, 45, 309-10, 341
Sick room, 506
Siena, 489
Sieve, 903
Sigmund, Count Palatine, 740
Silence, observed, 482, 487
Silk, 231, 819
Silvanus, 104
Silver, 202, 224, 470, 818, 853-4, 907
Simon Magus, 320, 954
Simples, 510, 816-7
Sin, 286, 324, 328, 474-5, 858, 870;
effect on nature, 136, 192, 201;
as an obstacle to science, 632
Sinciput, 737
Siphon, 199, 249, 790, 804
Siren, 380
Skin, 143, 145, 484, 560;
changing, 795
Skull, 859
Slav and Slave, 909
Sleep, 887
Sleight-of-hand, 343, 345, 661, 669, 789
Smallpox, 482-3
Smoke, 362
Snake, Alexander and, 262, 266;
experiments with, 656, 785, 794-6;
charming, 904;
safeguards against, 420, 483, 506, 539, 561;
medicinal and other use of, 226, 413, 484, 513, 769;
skin of, 74, 345, 363, 498;
poison of, 905, 908
Sneeze, divination from, 330, 606
Soap bubble, 787, 790
Socrates, 112, 262ff., 278, 908;
and see other index
Sodom, apples of, 387
Solids, regular, 648
Solon, 647
Soporific, 262, 753
Sorcery, 7, 265, 319, 332, 423, 731, 848-50;
counter-magic against, 139-40, 497, 850-1;
and see Witchcraft
Sortilegi, 14
Soul, human, discussions of, 376, 408, 485, 735;
Plato on, 104, 865;
immorality of, 255, 462, 838;
power of, 574-5, 664-5, 674, 849;
from stars, 40, 211;
or from God?, 329, 584;
relation to stars, 590, 614, 710;
other than human, 35, 348, 362, 564-6, 584, 710;
and see World
Sound, 32
Spain and Spanish, chap. xxxviii, 172-3, 181, 322, 813, 862;
era of, 74
Sparrow, 505
Spatulamancy, 86
Species, 443, 732, 855, 893, 906;
permanence of, 533, 867;
for Specific form, see Form
Spice, 472
Spider, 348, 413, 544, 763
Spirits,
good or evil, discussed by,
Athelardus, 42-3;
William of Conches, 55, 61;
Bernard Silvester, 104;
Hildegard, 134ff.;
Maimonides, 208;
Pseudo-Aristotle, 259-60;
William of Auvergne, 353ff.;
Thomas of Cantimpré, 393;
Bartholomew, 407;
Vincent, 462, 468;
Roger Bacon, 667;
Abano, 889;
Cecco, 963-6;
expulsion of, and power over, 135, 143, 232, 357, 359-60, 387, 965,
and see Exorcism;
fall of, 55, 104, 130, 134, 136, 357;
in the air, 55, 104, 135, 139, 323, 357, 394, 466;
in heavens and stars, 55, 136, 287, 289, 323, 343, 355-6, 468, 581-2, 608, 670, 710, 849, 897, 899, 953, 958, 963;
in the moon, 323, 698;
in nature, 7, 135ff., 355, 358-60, 387;
invocation of, 280, 320ff., 327, 422, 556, 674, 712, 781, 807, chap. lxvi, 848-9, 892, 912, 953, 959, 963,
and see Necromancy, Notory art;
magic, astrology, arts and sciences ascribed to, 6, 138, 154, 158, 160, 298, 319ff., 343, 551-2, 603-6, 661, 669, 733-4, 818, 899;
mediums between God or gods and man, 55, 208, 227, 461;
orders of, 55, 104, 285, 317, 357-8;
possession by, 355, 497, 816;
safeguards against, 135, 148, 241-2, 261, 470
Spiritual Franciscans, 842
Spiritus, 33, 298, 385
Spleen, 470, 504, 565
Spring, water, 133, 744;
caused to flow, 819;
and see Fountain, Seasons
Stars, nature of, 5, 40-1, 48, 103, 149, 208, 366, 381, 697;
as signs and not causes, especially of evil, 149ff., 316, 367;
affected by magic, 225-6;
fixed, 368, 418, 820;
shooting, 320;
and see Astrology, Planets, etc.
State, 157
Statue, of Abano, 947;
animated, 351;
and see Head, speaking
Steel, 135, 392, 453, 788, 791
Stephen, St., 160, 327-8
Stoic, 582, 895-6
Stomach, 145, 470, 472, 504, 565, 853-4
Stone, the disease, 546, 844, 847, 857-8
Stork, 422
Storm-averting magic, 232, 287, 353, 469-70, 821
Strasburg, 597
Stupor, 761
Style, literary, 54, 129, 157, 191, 216, 261, 290, 410, 693, 725, 764
Stylus, 227, 762
Submarine, 263, 654
Substance and accident, 734
Succubus, 358, 897, 960
Sucking out poison, 908
Suffumigation, see Fumigation
Sugar, 325, 817
Suggestion, force of, 346
Suicide, 107
Sulphur, 471, 573, 737, 786, 793, 797, 817
Sun, and magic, 153, 470, 728;
rising, 140;
before sunrise, 232, 472;
before sunset, 140, 232;
miraculous suns, 318;
variations in heat of, 368;
oracle of, 269;
tree of, 387
Surgery, 480, 760, 856, 894
Swallow, 420-1, 767, 853;
wort and stone, 420-1
Swan, 145
Sweat, 135
Sword, magic, 227;
poisoned, 561, 910
Symbolism, 137, 198, 402;
in alchemy, 217, 562
Sympathetic magic, 202, 497, 561, 852, 907
Symptoms, 766
Syria, Syriac, and Syrian, 66, 231, 237, 239, 244, 248, 261, 294, 756
Syringe, 908
Tables, astronomical, 68, 92, 262, 638, 644, 668, 814;
of contents, 130-1
Talisman, 264, 675;
and see Amulet, Image
Tambourine, 819
Tape-worm, 887
Tarasia, queen, 76
Tarragona, 843, 846
Tartars, 645, 674
Taxo, a beast, 336
Teacher and Teaching, see Education
Tears, 345, 817;
and see Weeping
Telescope, 112, 441
Temistius, horn of, 265
Templars, 910
Ten, 444, 819
Terra sigillata, 210, 909
Testicles, 561, 850;
and see Beaver
Tetragrammaton, 210, 800, 857
Text, Textual criticism and history, 213, 230, 240, 268ff., 450, 460-3, 491-2, 519, 647, 722, 739;
and see Interpolation
Textbooks, 406, 456, 489, 491, 620, 641
Thamur, or worm of Solomon, 386-7
Thaumaturgy, 456
Theater, 32, 82, 158
Thebes, 284
Theft, discovery of, or recovery of stolen objects, 287, 348, 603, 728, 800, 804, 806-8, 903;
prevention of, 143, 348-9
Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, 156
Theobald, king of Navarre, 296
Theodoric the East Goth, 803
Theodosius de Flisco, 836
Theology, attitude, chap. lii. 3, 169, 317, 462, 466, 530-1, 602, 631-2, 792;
teaching of, 11, 156, 375, 475, 595-8, 639-40, 848, 865-6;
boy theologians, 11, 639;
grades of theologians, 451;
criticism of, 634, 638-41, 831;
and magic, 660;
and astrology and astronomy, 90-1, 621, 694, 703, 709ff., 830-3, 869-71, 892, 899, 901, 949;
Arnald and, 843-5;
and see Religion
Theriac, 210, 361, 473, 755, 909-10
Theurgy, 286
Thomas, apostle, chap. xlvii, 475, 477
Thorn, 483
Thoth, god, 227
Thought, freedom of, 103;
indestructibility of, 983-4
Three, 142-3, 140, 277, 496, 744, 851-2
Threshold, 497
Throat, 492
Thunder, divination from, 223, 320, 351, 804;
miscellaneous, 326, 562, 583
Tide, 57, 366
Tiger, 542
Tigris river, 239
Time, ways of telling, 68, 223, 325;
divisions of, 419;
observed in magic, 209, 293, 300, 365, 603, 800;
and see Day, Month, Moon, Sun, Calendar, etc.
Timeo, 743, 791
Tin, 392, 802, 959
Toad, 201, 336, 352, 381, 386, 545-7, 768, 796, 909
Toledo, 87-88, 171ff., 179-80, 262, 284, 310, 638, 668, 784, 814
Tongue, 231, 408, 555
Tooth, 209, 273, 470, 482, 560, 574, 728, 762-3, 767, 782, 851
Toothache, cures for, 144, 492, 496, 561, 565, 767-8
Toothpowder, 496
Topaz, 331, 363
Torpedo, 361
Tortoise, 362, 564, 854
Torture, 273, 903
Touch, 886, 905
Toulouse, 156, 262, 668
Tours, 46, 100
Tradition, see Authority, Textual history
Transformation, magic, 320, 345, 603, 662, 674, 736, 821, 965
Translation, chaps. xxxviii, lxiv, lxv;
from Greek into Arabic, 213, 249, 260, 759, 764;
vernacular, 66, 74, 241, 405-6, 480, 490-1, 677, 827, 846, 877, 926;
pretended Latin, 26-7, 66, 240;
of Aristotle and the Psuedo-Aristotle, 194-5, 247ff., 269ff., 276, 310ff., 394-5, 576, 598-600, 633, 708;
Roger Bacon on, 633-4, 643;
by Abano, 877-9, 883-4, 888, 927;
miscellaneous Latin, 20ff., 100, 111-2, 119-20, 205-7, 214ff., 229-30, 233, 291ff., 310ff., 394-5, 438, 455-6, 487, 643, 708, 778-9, 847, 929-30, 972
Travel, 45, 156, 238, 481, 541, 843, 877
Treasure, hidden, 557, 603, 807, 838, 965
Tree, 139, 231, 296, 325, 387, 539, 817, 853;
of life, 266;
of sun and moon, 474;
figure of, in Lull’s Art, 867;
poisonous, 907
Tree-toad, 139
Treviso, 880-1, 930-1
Trials for heresy and magic, 674-7, 843-5, 860-1, 938, 942-7, chap. lxxi;
and see Accusation, Inquisition
Trinity, 53, 58-60, 317-8, 407, 462, 493
Trivium, 10
Trophonius, 290
Tropics, 583, 878
Trumpet, 803
Truth, 25, 211, 489, 642, 652, 662-3, 732
Tunny fish, 143
Turk, 294;
see Bath for Turkish bath
Turpentine, 784, 793
Turquoise, 431
Turtle, 541, 736
Twins, marvelous, 557, 745;
and astrology, 895
Tyriac, see Theriac
Ugo, brother, 832
Ulcer, 470, 472, 566
Underworld, 13, 356, 671, 827
Unguent, 142, 144, 480, 561
Unicorn, 146
Universals and particulars, 535, 633
Universe, theories of, 12-3, 35-8, 129ff., 150ff., 175ff., 275, 366, 413, 439, 462;
duration of, 255, 317, 341, 648, 898
Universities, see names of cities, as Paris, Oxford, Treviso, Bologna
Urban IV, pope, 94, 453, 459, 597, 599
Urine, use of, 251, 331, 336, 360, 392, 487, 506, 563, 736, 788, 817, 860
Uucathon, a spirit, 289
Vacuum, 37, 196, 199, 648
Valbona, battle of, 638, 827
Valence, 906
Valencia, 842, 844
Vein, 131
Veneficus, 904-5
Venibene, John, tyrant of Ascoli, 956
Venice, 426, 523
Ventriloquism, 651
Venus, the planet, 109, 260, 356, 552, 672, 955
Verbena or Vervain, 555
Villa, 183, 525
Vinegar, 412, 816
Viper, 413, 483, 564
Virgin and Virginity, 365, 382, 386, 729, 819
Virtue, animal, natural, and vital, 886;
and see Occult
Virtues, seven, 886
Vision, theories of, 32-3, 409, 440, 456, 901
Visions, 126ff., 155, 212, 549, 559, 577
Viterbo, 456, 597
Vitriol, 336
Vivisection, 487
Voice, 359, 661, 665
Vomiting, 273, 510, 908
Vulgus, 54, 190, 369, 621, 631, 636, 731, 738, 859
Vultivoli, 158
Vulture, 144, 262, 348, 496-7, 851
Wager of battle, 241
Wall of house, 199, 497
Walrus, 144
Wand, magic, 680
War, 196, 273, 275, 469, 634, 671, 838;
decried, 30, 136
Warts, to get rid of, 852
Washing, feet, 500;
head, 860
Water, 199, 508;
bodies of, 423;
drinking, 133-4, 507, 887;
in which washed, 147, 500;
soaked in, 143-6;
dissolves magic, 139-40;
made to appear by magic, 344;
hot thought to freeze faster, 656;
jar, organ, and works, 38-9, 196, 790;
waters above firmament, 57-8, 133, 355, 413, 464;
marvelous, medical, and chemical, 251ff., 320, 326, 500-1, 797-9;
and see Fountain, Holy, Sea, etc.
Wax, images in magic, 227, 264, 349, 353, 790, 818;
used in medicine, 146, 345;
light, 359;
cloth, 860
Weasel, 146, 200, 231, 506, 767
Weather, prediction, 160, 164, 294, 325, 445, 473, 586, 656, 766, 893;
and see Rain-making, Storm-averting magic
Weeping for joy and as a salutation, 34, 154
Weights, 435, 649, 654, 789
Well, 349, 523
Wenzel II, king of Bohemia, 263, 266
Werwolf, 359
Whale, 423-4, 505, 540, 899
Wheat, 234
Wheel, divining, 116
White, 321, 801
Wick, 561
Will, free, 16, 152, 574, 866;
and astrology, 6, 12, 106, 164, 203, 212, 311, 326, 369, 393, 446, 452, 469, 584, 609ff., 669, 671, 699-701, 711, 833, 869-70, 901, 953, 959, 962;
power, and magic, 665, 902;
and experimental science, 659;
last wills and testaments, 832;
of Arnald, 845, 934;
Lull, 863-4;
Abano, 881-2, 931-5, 940-3
William the Bad of Sicily, 89
William, bishop of Syracuse, 21, 44ff.
Wind, 132, 150, 223, 323, 429
Wine, 140, 144, 191, 231, 320, 326, 413, 473, 504, 546, 768, 789, 817, 854, 886
Witch and Witchcraft, 38, 162, 497, 605, 608, 653, 675, 805, 903, 973
Wolf, 202, 348, 385, 393, 433, 497, 560, 728, 733, 736, 767, 817
Woman, 60, 607;
of Norwich, 671;
diseases of, 213, 378, 739-45;
adornment of, 742-3
Wood, 344, 698
Wool, 426
Words, power of, 140-1, 148, 202, 232, 282ff., 351-2, 361, 603-4, 610-1, 658, 661, 665-6, 674, 731, 801, 849, 873, 981
World soul, 53, 341, 366-7, 566, 586, 710
Worms, 348, 386, 473, 484, 543
Wormwood, 472
Wound, 505, 795
Wren, 200
Writing, materials, 111, 173, 227, 788;
invisible, 736, 787-8, 792;
legible in mirror, 788
Youth, perpetual or renewed, see Elixir, Fountain, and Longevity
Zodiac, 150, 332, 582, 671, 829, 858, 871;
and parts of human body, 177, 324, 417, 833, 856, 871, 894, 957

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