An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot

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.