THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT 205 



passage may serve to show wliy the artist of the 

 Spanish Chapel was du^ected to draw his Magus in 

 the fashion of the East, and helps us to understand 

 the prejudice which Michael Scot's outlandish cos- 

 tume must have raised against him. It is in any case 

 certain that the stories of his supernatural power 

 became both memorable in substance and rich in 

 details by association with the tales of Arthur. 



was the time when Gipsies first appeared in the West. That year is 

 cited by Muratori in his Dissertazioni as the date of a document which 

 speaks of the coming of Andrew, who called himself Duke of Egypt, and 

 all his tribe. Passavanti, however, wrote about 1350, so that the epoch 

 of migration must be carried back at least a century. 



