Note 537 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.
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Miller, op. cit., vol. iii, pp. 123–126. On p. 124 Miller states that “in the manuscript of the Magna de naturis philosophia of William of Conches ... in the Stuttgart Library, three maps are included, described by Santarem.” See Santarem, Essai, vol. iii, 1852, pp. 499–505. Beazley (Dawn, vol. ii, 1901, p. 626), following Miller, also ascribes these maps to a manuscript of the Magna de naturis philosophia. The manuscript in question, however, is of no other work than William of Conches’ De philosophia mundi, which Santarem (op. cit., pp. 499–500) ascribed wrongly to William of Hirschau (see above, p. 398, note 28). No manuscripts or copies of the Magna de naturis philosophia are extant, and Poole believes that if such a work ever existed it has been wrongly attributed to William of Conches (Poole, Illustrations, 1920, pp. 306–310).