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as a collection of the versions which came from that 

 school appears plainly in the dedication to Stephen 

 of Provins. This is generally prefixed to the De 

 \Coelo et Mundo, thus forming an introduction to 

 I the versions which follow ; but here it has been 

 placed at the end of the volume, occurring im- 

 mediately after the short article De Vita Aristotelis 

 i^vhich closes the whole series. We may see in this 

 act a certain probability that some at least of these 

 additional versions may have been the work of 

 Michael Scot himself. Nor will the five years which 

 he spent at Toledo appear too scant a space of time 

 [or the production of the whole body of the Latin 

 Werroes and something more, when we remember 

 he ample and able assistance he enjoyed in the 

 >rosecution of his labours as a translator. 



There is one other version of which we must 

 peak before leaving the subject which has engaged 

 ur attention so long. The library of St. Omer 

 ontains a manuscript collection of the works of 

 Aristotle in Latin which was written during the 

 birteenth century. 1 The fly-leaf at the commence- 

 lent of this volume shows the same handwriting 

 s the other pages, and has proved upon examina- 

 i.on to be the last relic of a work which has un- 

 >rtunately perished. What that work was may be 

 3en from the closing words, which are as follows : 

 Here end the Nova EtJiica of Aristotle, which 

 [aster Michael Scot translated from the Greek 

 .nguage into the Latin/ This colophon opens a 

 irious question. Are we to consider that the 

 |;ribe wrote Greek when he should rather have said 

 rabic ? It was by a mistake of such a kind that 



| l No. 620. See Cat. Gen. dcs Bibl des Dep. vol. iii. Paris, 1855. 



