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“ The Horn of Alexander the Great ”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1926

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References

Page 500 note 1 Steele, op. cit., lviii.

Page 500 note 2 Thorndike, op. cit., ii, 265.

Page 500 note 3 p. 140.

Page 500 note 4 p. 132.

Page 500 note 5 The Treatise of Walter de Milemete … et De Secretis Secretorum Aristotelis, 1913, pl. 151.

Page 501 note 1 Or. 3118, fols. 52v–53 (called “ C ”), and Or. 6421, fol. 99 (called “ D ”).

Page 501 note 2 MS. “ D ” begins .

Page 501 note 3 “ D ” has and .

Page 501 note 4 “ C ” has = “ terrifying ”. See the Latin version of Bacon. as in “ D ”, agrees with the Hebrew “ hydraulic (?) instruments ”. See the Hebrew text in JBAS., 1907.

Page 501 note 6 “ D ”

Page 501 note 6 In “ C ” after the passage runs .

Page 501 note 7 omitted in “ D ”.

Page 501 note 8 Roger Bacon has ad nocendum, which Steele suggests is a mistake for advocandum, as in the Holkham Hall MS.

Page 502 note 1 By the courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.

Page 502 note 2 Al-Ma riq, ix, 21.

Page 502 note 3 Both the Arabs and Syrians likened this ar(c)a to an “ oven ” (tannūr).

Page 503 note 1 These “ Greek bellows ” are called zauqī bellows in the Arabic version of Philōn's Pneumatics. Since and are much alike in appearance, one may be a copyist's error for the other.

Page 503 note 2 Al-Fihrist, 270. Ibn al-Qifṭī, 322. Abūl-Fidā, 156.

Page 503 note 3 Pape, Wörterbuch, s.v. I am indebted for this “ clue ” to Professor D. S. Margoliouth.

Page 503 note 4 Revue des Etudes Grecques, xxi, 338–40. Notices et Extraits des MSS., xxxviii, 29, 38. Journal Asiatique, ser. XI, Tome x, 450.