THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT CONCLUSION 219 



legend as far as the close of the fourteenth centvent 



o 



During the next hundred years no notable addriply 

 seems to have been made to it, nor does it apj; the 

 to have attained any further expression of a rem^hen 

 able kind in the region of pure literature, aael, 

 the fifteenth century had by no means forgot-ng ; 

 Michael Scot, nor the tales that embodied (and 

 mysterious fame. This, in fact, seems to band 

 been the period when most of the magical wc'.aad- 

 attributed to the philosopher's pen were compospre- 

 and commended to the world under the reputa anal 

 attaching to so great a name. Such are the sjanap 

 which exists in writing of this age, in the Lain ells 

 tian Library of Florence, 1 the Geomantia of the 

 Munich Library, 2 and, perhaps, the Cheiroman^ to 

 A.S, however, a tract on at least one of these laiand 

 subjects is attributed to Gerard of Cremona in t 3d. 

 Vatican list, 3 it is possible there may here taich 

 been only some not unnatural confusion betwitch 

 :wo authors who were closely associated in ml'ood 

 of the literary work they accomplished in Spain, .an's 

 To the sixteenth century belongs the m( itch 

 aeroic poem entitled De Gestis Baldi, composed]! in 

 bhe famous macaronic writer Teofilo Folengo, "1 his 

 terete under the assumed name of Merlin Coccf her 

 A. considerable passage in this curious product he 

 Is devoted to Michael Scot, of whom the jursed 

 speaks in the following terms : i, he 



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' Ecce Michaelis de incantu regula Scoti, 



Qua, post sex fonnas, cerae fabricatur iniago lace. 



Demonii Sathan Saturni facta plumbo tncrh 



Cui suffimigio per serica rubra cremate 



and 



1 PI. Ixxxix. sup. cod. 38. 2 No. 489B first 



3 Fondo Vaticano 2392, p. 97vo. and 98ro. See Boncompagni, 

 rita e delle opere de Gherardo Cremomse ; Eoma, 1851, p. 7. 



