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Welcome to the Michael Scot Research Trust: This site is intended to promote research and discussion about the life and works of Michael Scot. All suggestions welcome. |
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The purpose of this page is to provide a Forum where people may publish and exchange information about their interest in Michael Scot. Home The earliest solid record of a distilled alcoholic spirit in Scotland dates from 1494. However, it is possible that the knowledge of distilling spirits existed on Scottish soil more than 250 years earlier, if only in the skull of one man. More on how Michael Scot may have brought the knowledge of distilling to Scotland, at www.celticmalts.com/journal-a18.htm As an example of the 'rebus' figures constructed by late medieval scholars in the mode recommended by Hugh of St. Victor in Avignon and Thomas Bradwardine in England, Diane O'Donovan has discussed a figure labelled 'Juppiter' in the Bodleian manuscript of Scot's Liber introductorius, (Bodleian Lib. Bodley 266 Oxford 1475). Her article discusses the use of such figures, used as discrete images and set on card. Her article is to be found at www.wopc.uk |