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J. Wood Brown. An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot
An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. BIRTHPLACE AND EARLY STUDIES OF MICHAEL SCOT
CHAPTER II. SCOT AT THE COURT OF SICILY
CHAPTER III. SCOT AT TOLEDO
CHAPTER IV. THE ALCHEMICAL STUDIES OF SCOT
CHAPTER V. THE ASTRONOMICAL WRITINGS OF SCOT
CHAPTER VI. SCOT TRANSLATES AVERROËS
CHAPTER VII. SCOT AGAIN AT COURT
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST DAYS OF MICHAEL SCOT
CHAPTER IX. THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT
CHAPTER X. THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT—CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
LIBER LUMINIS LUMINUM
LIBER DEDALI PHILOSOPHI
Primo de sale communi
De sale rubeo
De armoniaco
De Sale Nitro Salso
De Sale Agro
De sale alebrot[333]
De allumine rubeo
De allumine et marocco
De allumine zucharino
De rocco
De Allumine Romano
De Atramentis
Incipit Quarta de Spiritibus
Capitulum de Spiritibus Volantibus
Incipit quinta de preparatione alluminum
Quomodo medicine debent solvi
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
ERRATA
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J. Wood Brown
Published by Good Press, 2019
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It is to be remarked, too, that the Scottish tales of wonder relating to Michael Scot have a local colour that accords well with the other signs we have noticed. The hill which the sorcerer’s familiar spirit cleaves in sunder is the triple peak of Eildon; the water which he curbs is that of Tweed; from Oakwood he rides forth to try the witch of Falsehope, and in Oakwood tower may still be seen the Jingler’s room: a curious anachronism, for Oakwood is a building much more recent than the days of Michael Scot, yet one which fixes for us in a picturesque and memorable way the district of country where, according to the greatest number of converging probabilities, this remarkable man was born.
As to the date of his birth, it is difficult to be very precise. The probability that he died suddenly, and before he had completed the measure of an ordinary lifetime, prevents us from founding our calculations upon the date of his decease, which can be pretty accurately determined. A more certain argument may be derived from the fact that Scot had finished his youthful studies, made some figure in the world, and entered on the great occupation of his life as an author, as early as the year 1210.[13] Assuming then that thirty was the least age he could well have attained at the period in question, the year 1180 would be indicated as that of his birth, or rather as the latest date to which it can with probability be referred; 1175 being in every way a more likely approximation to the actual time of this event.
