Note 75 — Chapter II · SCOT AT THE COURT OF SICILY

MSS. of the Secreta Secretorum are found in Florence, Bibl. Naz., xxv. 10, 632, chart. saec. xv.; Bibl. Laur. (S. Crucis) xv. sin. 9; Rome, Fondo Vaticano, 5047; Oxford, Bibl. Bod. Can. Misc., 562; Troyes and St. Omer, v. Cat. MSS. des Depart., vol. ii. pp. 517, 518, and iii. 295; Berne, v. Sinner’s Cat., vol. iii. p. 525. It is interesting to note that the title of this last MS. is Physionomia, just as the Physionomia of Scot is called De Secretis in the editions of 1584 and 1598. This confirms the relation between his work and that of Philippus Clericus. MSS. of the Italian version of the Secreta Secretorum are found at Florence, Bibl. Riccard., Q. I. xxii. 1297; R. I. xx. 2224; L. I. xxxiv. 108. The first of these is dated 1450. In the Bibl. Naz., Florence, there is another, and a similar one of the Physionomia Aristotelis. In the Chigi Library of Rome there is a MS., chart. saec. xvii., with the curious title: ‘Migel franzas, auctor obscurioris nominis, ad Physionomiam Aristotelis Commentarium.’ It is numbered E. vi. 205, and consists of 326 pages. The Secreta Secretorum with the De Mineralibus was printed at Venice (? 1501), by Bernardinus de Vitalibus, and a new version by G. Manente, comprehending the Morals and the Physionomia as well as the Secreta, issued from the same place in 1538. It was printed in 4to by Tacuino da Trino.