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, appendix vi.

[826] Aristotle, _Lapidarius et Liber de physionomia_, Merseburg, 1473, p. 8.

[827] _De naturis rerum_, II, 21. In an illustrated 13th century MS of the vernacular Romance of Alexander three pictures are devoted to his submarine. CU Trinity 1446, 1250 A. D., fol. 27r, “_Coment Alisandre vesqui suz les ewes_; a covered ship with windows under green water, Alexander and three men in it; fol. 27v, _Des nefs ke sont apelees colifas_; a similar ship in the water, no one visible in it; _Coment Alisandre encercha la nature de pessons_; Alexander and two men in the ship, fish and mermaid below.” I have quoted James’ description of the MS (III, 488).

See also Lacroix, _Science and Literature in the Middle Ages_, 1878, Fig. 87, p. 119, for Alexander descending to the bottom of the sea in a glass cask, from a thirteenth century MS, Brussels 11040.

[828] See