Appendix A. British Library Manuscript Arundel 123, the contents of the codex.[1]

f.5

Geographia universalis, ordine alphabetico compilata ex Isidori Hispalensis Originibus, aliisque, quorum auctoritas saepius allegatur.

Universal description of the world compiled in alphabetical order from original works of Isidore of Spain, and from others whose authority is more often cited.

f. 22v

Quaedam de orbis dimensione ex Prisciano in Cosmographia

Somewhat concerning the dimension of the world out of Priscian in his ‘Cosmography’.a

f. 24.

Honorii Augustodunensis, sive cuiuscunque sit, Imago mundi

‘Image of the world’ of Honorius Augustodunensis, or whoever the author may be.

f.33

Apollonii (auctoris spurii) Vita Regis Antiochi

‘The Life of the King of Antioch’ of Apollonius (a spurious author).

f.43

Liber de vita et morte magni Regis Alexandri Aesopo adscriptus

The book on the life and death of King Alexander the Great ascribed to Aesop.

f.71v

Aristotelis Epistola ad Alexandrum Magnum

Aristotle’s Letter to Alexander the Great.

f.73

De Alexandri Magni expeditionibus

On the expeditions of Alexander the Great.

f.74v

De rege Alexandro et ejus origine ex libro Hermeri de dictis philosophorum descripta

On King Alexander and his origin, a description out of the book of Hermes about sayings of the philosophers.

f.80

Dicta Alexandri ex libro ejusdem Hermeri

Sayings of Alexander from that same book by Hermes.

f.81v

Quaedam alia philosophorum dicta licet non omnia in Hermeri libro inventa cum descriptione et progressu originis quorundam eorum ab eodem compilatore addita

Some other sayings of philosophers, not all found in the book of Hermes, together with a description and account of their sources, added by the same compiler.

f.95

Secundi Pythagorei philosophi. Responsa ad quaestiunculas Imp. Hadrianii

After the philosophy of Pythagoras. Answers to the Emperor Hadrian’s queries.

a The extract from Priscian (f.22v) is added in a second scribal hand. There is a further gloss in a third hand against this addition, stressing the information on quantities of seas, islands, mountains, provinces, rivers and peoples in the world: quanto maria sunt in mundo nota quanto insula quanto montes quanto provincia quanto flumina et quanto gentes sunt in mundo nota.