448 COGITATIONES DE SCIENTIA HUMANA. 



He then proceeds to speak of the Historia Median- 

 ica, the third and last. And here, the blanks being 

 fewer, the sense may be clearly traced, and the missing 

 words probably supplied.] 



Sequitur et superest [Historia] Naturalis Mechanica, 

 sive Exper[ientige] qualem artes exhibent: ut agri- 

 c[ultura], Pictoria, 1 Tinctoria, Fabrilis. Addo [etiam 

 practicas] omnes, licet in artem non coaluerint, ut 

 [ve]nationum, aucupiorum, piscationum. N[eque ta- 

 men] exclude mechanicam partem liberalium artium, 

 quas vocant; Musicas, Perspective, Medicinse. Hsec 

 autem historia licet res minus solemnis sit et honoris et 



[And here the manuscript suddenly stops in the 

 middle of the page ; being evidently a transcript from, 

 an original of which the outside leaves had been torn 

 away, and the others more or less injured, most 

 towards the end.] 



1 pinctura in MS. 



