116 THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT 



manuscript^ supplies evidence that he contributed to 

 the work in which Michael Scot was now engaged. 



It is not impossible that Philip of Tripoli may 

 have joined in the new enterprise. His name does 

 not indeed appear in any of the manuscripts which 

 contain the Latin Averroes, but we have seen that 

 he was certainly in Spain about this time and even 

 at work with Gerard of Cremona." His intimate 

 relation to Michael Scot is also beyond question, 

 and, upon the whole, it seems reasonable to suppose 

 that the Emperor may have engaged him to help in 

 the work now going forward. 



However this may have been as regards the 

 exact details of time and persons, we may regard it 

 as a matter now for the first time brought to light 

 and established, that in the years between 1217 

 and 1223 there existed a college of translators in 

 Toledo just such as that which had done so much 

 excellent work there a century before. In the new 

 school Frederick ii. held the honourable place of 

 patron, as Archbishop Raymon had done in his 

 day, while Michael Scot and Gerard of Cremona 

 aided each other in completing the version of 

 Averroes as Dominicus Gundisalvus had lent his 

 help to form that of Avicenna. This view of the 

 matter should be found very interesting, not only 

 in itself, but with regard to the conclusions arrived 

 at by Jourdain, whose discoveries in the literary 

 history of the twelfth century it so remarkably 

 repeats and extends to the following age. 



This correspondence between the earlier and 

 later schools of Toledo is even more close and exact 

 than we have yet observed. It appears also in the 



1 St. Victor, 17L ^ De Kossi ms. 354. See ante, p. 20. 



