Note 399 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.

On translators from the Greek, see Haskins, Studies, 1924, pp. 141–241. Shortly after the middle of the twelfth century a certain Sicilian, Henricus Aristippus, brought from Constantinople a copy of a Greek text of Ptolemy’s Almagest as a present from the Byzantine Emperor for the Norman king, William I. Subsequently an anonymous medical student of Salerno made a Latin version of this work. Aristippus also distinguished himself at about the same time by turning into Latin from the Greek the fourth book of Aristotle’s Meteorology (Haskins and Lockwood, Sicilian Translators, 1910, pp. 75–102; Haskins, Further Notes, 1912—under Haskins and Lockwood in the Bibliography—pp. 155–166; Haskins, Studies, 1924, pp. 155–168; on Aristippus’ translation of the fourth book of the Meteorology, see also below, p. 401, note 60). A second translation of the Meteorology was made from Greek into Latin before 1260 (see Grabmann, Forschungen, 1916, p. 182; Fobes, Mediaeval Versions, 1915, p. 297). Translations from the Greek of the Physics, De caelo, and De generatione et corruptione were also known by the early thirteenth century (Grabmann, op. cit., p. 178; Haskins, Studies, 1924, pp. 149, 224, and 225, note 8).