Note 256 — Chapter VIII · THE LAST DAYS OF MICHAEL SCOT
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The diploma is dated at Melfi on the 9th of August 1232. The colophon to the copy then made of the Abbreviatio Avicennae is as follows: ‘Completus est liber Avicenne de animalibus, scriptus per Magistrum Henricum Coloniensem, ad exemplar magnifici Imperatoris nostri Domini Frederici, apud Meffiam civitatem Apulie, ubi Dominus Imperator eidem Magistro hunc librum premissum commodavit, anno Domini MCCXXXII, in Vigilia Beati Laurentii, in domo Magistri Volmari medici Imperatoris.’ See Huillard-Bréholles, Hist. Diplom. Frid. II., vol. iv. part i. pp. 381-2.