Note 2518 — Chapter LXV
Reading edition
Steinschneider (1905), p. 51, notes only four of the following MSS, namely, those starred:
Sloane 1754, 14th century, fol. 30, “De pelle serpentis 12 experimenta et quaedam vera.” No author or translator is mentioned: the treatise immediately follows the Experiments of Nicholas of Poland.
Royal 12-D-XII, late 14th century, fol. 111v.
Arundel 251, 14th century, fol. 35v.
CU Trinity 1081, 15th century, fol. 69.
Bodleian 177 (Bernard 2072), late 14th century, fols. 29v-30r.
* Ashmole 1437, 15th century, fol. 3v, “De corio serpentis.” John’s prefatory statement is omitted and no author is mentioned.
* Amplon. Folio 276, early 14th century, fol. 69.
CLM 206, 15th century, fol. 38, De viribus corei serpentis pulverisati.
* CLM 444, 14th century, fol. 200.
* CLM 534, 14th century, fol. 42v.
Bologna University Library 135, 14th century, fols. 31r-32r, “Aichauus, Liber vitae.... Illum autem librum fecit Aichauus fysicus.”
Arezzo 232, 15th century, fol. 80, “Secreta magistri Iohannis,” from the fact that they follow the Verbum abreviatum ascribed to Roger Bacon are probably the alchemical treatise attributed to Bacon’s disciple, the youth John, rather than our treatise.
Sloane 3679, 17th century, fol. 96v—, “Sequuntur quaedam Experimenta mirabilia de spolio serpentis quae Jo. Hispalensis ex Arabico transtulit in Latinum ex libro salutis vitae Alcani philosophi Arabici.”