Note 1704 — Chapter LIX
Reading edition
Although the treatise on Minerals has always been accepted as authentic, since its opinions in connection with magic and astrology are rather extreme, it may be well to list here some early MSS of it. Berthelot (1893) I, 290, regarded BN 6514, written about 1300, as “almost contemporary,” but some of the following are older, if the dating in the MSS catalogues is dependable.
CLM 353, 13th century, fol. 55- Lapidarius, fol. 69- liber de mineralibus.
CLM 540A, anno 1298, fols. 1-106, libri V mineralium.
CLM 23538, 13-14th century, 54 fols., de mineralibus libri V.
Amplon. Quarto 189, about 1300 A. D., fols. 40-67, liber de mineralibus et lapidibus.
Amplon. Quarto 293, 13th century, fols. 57-85, quatuor (vel potius quinque) libri mineralium domini Alberti Magni.
Magdalen 174, close of 13th century, fol. 51v- de mineralibus libri tres (?).
The Minerals is found in the following 14th century MSS, and doubtless in many others: Digby 119, 26; 183, 1; 190, 1; Ashmole 1471, fols. 1-48; Merton 285; S. Marco XIII, 18, fols. 1-31, “Explicit liber de lapidibus secundum fratrem Albertum qui liber oculo intitulatur”; CLM 16129, fols. 25-112; BN 7156, 2; BN 7475, 8.