Note 624 — PART IV PROBABILITY OF THE TRANSMISSION OF ISLAMIC MODELS TO CHRISTIAN EUROPE AND PARTICULARLY TO DANTE

Sundby, 136, and passim, acknowledges that he does not know the origin of some passages; on p. 111 he admits that Brunetto availed himself of Arabic texts of the physician Ishaq ibn Hunayn. D’Ancona (Il Tesoro di B.L. versificato) points out the Arabic origin of some episodes of the story of Alexander the Great as told in the Tesoro (cf., p. 141). The very title of Tesoro is reminiscent of Arabic literature. Brockelmann quotes over sixty works bearing that title, some far earlier than the thirteenth century, when the fashion spread to Christian Europe.