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[300] At Salerno, according to the Constitution of Frederick II., three years’ preliminary study of the _scientia logicalis_ was demanded, because “numquam sciri potest scientia medicinae nisi de scientia logicali aliquid praesciatur” (cited by Novati, _L’ Influsso del pensiero latino, etc._, p. 220). Just as Law and Medical Schools in the United States may require a college diploma from applicants for admission.

[301] On Constantine see Wüstenfeld, “Übersetzungen arabischer Werke,” etc. _Abhand. Göttingen Gesellschaft_, vol. 22 (1877), pp. 10-20, and p. 55 _sqq._ Also on the Salerno school, Daremberg, _Hist. des sciences médicales_, vol. i. p. 254 _sqq._

[302] _Traube_, “O Roma nobilis,” _Abhand. philos.-philol. Classe Bayer. Akad._ Bd. 19, p. 301. This poem probably belongs to the tenth century. “Archos” is mediaeval Greek for “The Lord.”

[303] The _Rationes dictandi_, a much-used book on the art of composing letters, comes from the hand of one Alberic, who was a monk at Monte Cassino in the middle of the eleventh century. He died a cardinal in 1088. The _ars dictaminis_ related either to drawing legal documents or composing letters. See _post_,