Note 51 — Chapter II · SCOT AT THE COURT OF SICILY

Bibl. Bodl. MSS. Canon Misc. 555; cod. memb. in 4to ff. 97, saec. xiv. ineunt., with a portrait of Michael Scot in one of the initials. The preface opens thus:—‘Cum ars astronomie sit grandis sermonibus philosophorum.’ The book begins:—‘Cronica Grece Latine dicitur series ut temporis temporum sicut dominorum,’ and closes thus:—‘De expositione fundamenti terrae volentes his finere secundum librum quem incepimus in nomine Dei, Cui ex parte nostra sit semper grandis laus et gloria, benedictio et triumphus in omnibus per infinita saecula saeculorum Amen.’ Other MSS. of the Astronomia are found at Milan, Bibl. Ambros. L. 92, sup. cum figuris; and at Munich, see Halm and Meyer’s Catalogue, vol. ii. part i. p. 156, No. 1242, saec. xviii.