[3]
[1] On Michael, see Bacon, Op. maj., 36, 37; Dante, Inferno, xx.
116; Boccaccio, 8 day, 9 novel; Scott, Lay, II. xi.; Brown, Life
and Legend of M. S. (1897)
[2] Bacon, Op. ined, Comp. stud., 472 (Rolls Series).
[3] In Peterhouse Library, Cambridge, is a manuscript of
Aristotle's Metaphysica, with Latin translations from the Arabic
and the Greek in parallel columns: the one being called the old
translation, the other the new. The manuscript is of the
thirteenth or fourteenth century.--James 3, 43.
When these translations were coming to England,
travellers were bringing Greek books directly from the
East. A doctor of medicine named William returned to
Paris from Constantinople in 1167, carrying with him
"many precious Greek codices."[1] About 1209 a Latin
translation of Aristotle's Physics or Metaphysics was made from
a Greek manuscript brought straight from Constantinople.
Some of these few importations were certainly destroyed
at once, probably all were, for Aristotle was proscribed in
Paris in the following year, and again in 1215, at the
very time when Michael the Scot was procuring versions
in another direction, at Toledo.
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