PARTS OF ANIMALS 



translation made from it. Dr. Reuben Levy has 

 most kindly read this passage for me in the 13th-14th 

 century Arabic MS. in the British Museum, Add. 7511. 

 For these two passages, and for a good many other 

 suspected places, I have consulted all the known mss. 

 of Michael Scot's version which are to be found in 

 this country. They are (excluding mss. Avhich contain 

 merely abridgements or extracts) : 



Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 109 

 „ University Library li. 3. 16 



Dd. 4. 30 

 Oxford, Merton College 278 

 „ Balliol CoUege 252 

 London, British Museum Royal 12. C. XV 

 „ „ „ Harl. 4970 » 



All these are of the thirteenth or fourteenth 

 century. 



I have inspected at test places the following three 

 Mss. of William of Moerbeke's version : 



Oxford, Merton College 270 

 >» Μ >» 271 



„ Balliol College 250 



William's translation was made from a MS. or mss. 

 which had already been infected by the corruptions 

 found in the Greek mss. which exist to-day. 



I should like here to express my thanks to the 

 Librarians who so kindly made arrangements for me 

 to inspect the mss. under their care. 



Where I have accepted the reading of the Berhn Scope of 

 edition, I have not given any record of the ms. vari- '^ruZul!^' 

 ants. These are to be found in the apparatus criticus 

 of that edition and of Langkavel's edition. 



" So far as I know, this ms. has not been mentioned in any 

 of the published lists of mss. of Michael Scot's De animalibus. 



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