20 THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT 



same way, apparently for the last time, in 1213. 

 This date, and the particular designation of Philip 

 the Notary as ' of Salerno,' connect themselves very 

 naturally with the title of a manuscript belonging 

 to the De Rossi collection. 1 It is as follows : ' The 

 Book of the Inspections of Urine according to the 

 opinion of the Masters, Peter of Berenice, Con- 

 stantine Damascenus, and Julius of Salerno ; which 

 was composed by command of the Emperor 

 Frederick, Anno Domini 1212, in the month of 

 February, and was revised by Master Philip of 

 Tripoli and Master Gerard of Cremona at the 

 orders of the King of Spain,' etc. The person 

 designed as Philip of Salerno was very likely to be 

 put in charge of the revision of a medical treatise, 

 and as he disappears from his duties as notary for 

 some time after 1213 we may suppose that it was 

 then he passed into the service of the King of Spain. 

 This conjecture agrees also with the mention of 

 Cordova in the Florence manuscript, and with other 

 peculiarities it displays, such as the spelling of the 

 name Philippus like Felipe, and the way in which 

 the title Dominus is repeated, just as Don might 

 be in the style of a Spaniard. There is, in short, 

 every reason to conclude that Philip of Salerno and 

 Philip of Tripoli were one and the same person. 

 We may add that Philip was the author of the first 

 complete version in Latin of the book called Secreta 

 Secretorum, the preface of which describes him as a 

 clericus of the See of Tripoli. As will presently 

 appear, Michael Scot drew largely from this work 

 in composing one of his own ; 2 another proof that 

 in confronting with each other these three names 



1 No. 354. 2 See infra, p. 37. 



