ArM5 Books by Ability

All books in Latin unless noted; T for Level indicates tractatus, Tx indicates x number of tractati; * after Quality denotes text taught in cathedral schools and universities
Level

Quality

Specialty

Author

Date

Notes

Source

various

ancient

Hebrew

RoP:tD: 136

T
T

5
9

Nennius
Geoffrey of Monmouth

8th century
12th century

French

LatL 108
LatL 108

5
6
10
T
T
T

10
11
15
5
5
7

Philo Byblius
Lucian of Samothrace
unknown
various authors
various sources
Eusebius

1st century BC
unknown
ancient
ancient
ancient
c. 263 c. 339

3
5
T

8
7
7

Orderic Vitalis
William of Newburgh
William of Jumieges

1075-1142
1136-1198
1025-1091

LatL 56
LatL 55
LatL 56

14

Gregory of Tours

7th century

LatL 65

4
5
T
T
T2
4

8
9
8
8
8
8

Dudo of St Quentin
William of Jumieges
William of Newburgh
William of Jumieges
Dudo of St Quentin
Orderic Vitalis

960-1025
1025-1090
1136-1199
1025-1092
960-1026
1075-1141

LatL
LatL
LatL
LatL
LatL
LatL

4
4
4
5
T
T7
T
T
T
T14
T2
T
T
5
T2
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T3

15
9*
var
8*
5*
5*
6
6*
7
8 (6-10)
8
8
8
9*
9
9
9*
10
10
13
13
13
14
12*
12*
12*
12*
12*
12*
14*

Donatus
Euclid
Heron
Ptolemy
Boethius
Martianus Capella
Gregory of Tours
Porphyry
Heron
anonymous
Boethius
Macrobius
Isidore of Seville
Priscian
Venerable Bede
Alcuin of York
Euclid
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Leonardo Fibonacci
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
Donatus
Cicero

late 4th century

ca. 300 BC
first century
mid-third century
480-528
early fifth century
13th century
c.234-c.305
first century
10th century
480-525
late 4th, early 5th century
c.560 - 636
6th century
672-735
735-804
ca. 300 BC
c.1175-1253
c.1175-1254
22nd century
25th century
26th century
1170-1250
384-322 BC
384-322 BC
384-322 BC
384-322 BC
384-322 BC
late 4th century
106-43 BC

Adjuration*
Heikhalot
Area Lore: Britain
History of the Britons
History of the Kings of Britain
Area Lore: Canaan
Phoenician History
The Syrian Goddess
The Clay Tablets
The Bible
The Talmud
Praeparatio evangelica

very rare, varied translations

very rare, varied translations
archaic Hebrew, 7 sequences of 6 tablets
Aramaic, Mishnah section
very rare, varied translations

AM
AM
AM
AM
AM
AM

35
35
36
35
35
35

Area Lore: England

The Ecclesiastical History
Historia rerum Anglicarum
Historia Normanorum
Area Lore: France
Decem Libri Historiarum
Area Lore: Normandy
History of the Normans
Historia Normanorum
Historia rerum Anglicarum
Historia Normanorum
History of the Normans
The Ecclesiastical History

added after death, updates to 1137

55
55
56
57
56
55

Artes Liberales
Ars grammatica - Ars minor
Elementa
Dioptra
Almagest (aka Megale Syntaxis)
Isagoge (trans)
De nuptiis philologiae et Mercurii (Marriage of Philology and Mercury)
On the Courses of the Stars
Isagoge
Mechanica
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Mathematical Sciences
Quadrivium
Commentary on Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio)
Etymologies
Institutione grammaticae
On the Division of Time
Dialectica
Optica
De sphera
De lineis, angulis et figures
Ordo virtutum (Play of Virtues)
Symphonia Armoniae Celestium Revelationum
Symphonia Armoniae Celestium Revelationum
Liber abbaci
Categories (the logica vetus)
On Interpretation (the logica vetus)
Prior Analytics (the logica nova)
Posterior Analytics (the logica nova)
On Sophistical Refutations (the logica nova)
Ars grammatica - Ars major
De inventionae

grammar

astronomy

astronomy

quadrivium
astronomy
grammar
mathematics
logic
astronomy
arithmetic
music
astronomy
music
arithmetic

written below level +3Q

13 books in Greek, usually found in translation -1Q eg. By Adelard of Bath
Greek
13 books in Greek original, translated to Arabic by al-Kwarizmi (-1Q) C9th and later into Latin -2Q
translation of original, incorporates -1Q
Books III-IX, each book a specialty in 1 of the liberal arts

3 books

A&A 137
A&A 136
AM 80
A&A 136
imp A&A 137
A&A 137
LatL 64
A&A 137
AM 80
HMRE 30
A&A 26
A&A 137
A&A 26
A&A 137
A&A 26
A&A 137
A&A 136
A&A 138
A&A 139
GoTF 130
GoTF 133
GoTF 134
A&A 15
A&A 136
A&A 136
A&A 136
A&A 136
A&A 136
A&A 137
A&A 136

Hebrew

RoP:tD: 137

translated into Latin from Greek by Boethius, -1Q

Greek
Arabic, Book 1, tractati are of varying quality - average quality given
6 book encyclopedia
"commentary" on Cicero's tractatus
20 book encyclopedia
16 books
6 book encylopedia
usually translated from Greek, -1Q
written from 1220-1235

work largely ignored until C16th, except by Michael Scot

original Greek, -1Q in Arabic, -2Q in Latin
Greek
Greek
Greek
Greek

Blessing*
Heikhalot

Compiled by Lachie Hayes, Sept 2009 (send comments and errata to jarkman.devries@mac.com)

various

ancient

ArM5 Books by Ability

All books in Latin unless noted; T for Level indicates tractatus, Tx indicates x number of tractati; * after Quality denotes text taught in cathedral schools and universities
Level

Quality

Specialty

Author

Date

Notes

Source

Matie de France

late 12th century

French

LatL 108

3
T
T
T

3
7
10
10

various authors
Photius
Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours

ancient
c. 810 c. 894
11th century
14th century

3
5
5
T
T

10
7
11*
7
8*

St. Victricius
Justinian
Gratian
Orderic Vitalis
Theophilius and Dorotheus

380-410
482-565
12th century
1075-1143
6th century

2
3
3
4
4
4
5
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T

14
9
10
6
9
10
10
5
6
6
7
8
8
10
12

Gregory of Tours
al-Ghazali
Hugh of Amiens
*Dionysisu the Areopagite
Peter Lombard
St Augustine of Hippo
Muhammad / Gabriel
Robert de Boron
various Llancarfan monks
Chretien de Troyes
Ibn Ishaq
Farid al-Din 'Attar
Gregory of Tours
Al-Shaykh al-Mufid
*Angel Raziel / Noah

9th century
13th century
1130-1174
1st century?
c.1100-c.1164
354-430
early 7th century
late 12th century
12th century
late 12th century
10th century
early 13th century
12th century
11th century
ancient

3
5

8
9

anonymous
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

10th century
11th century

Arabic, Book 1
Arabic, requires Elemental Medicine, Medicinal Diving or Medicinal Summoning to benefit

HMRE 30
HMRE 32

3
5

8
9

anonymous
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

10th century
11th century

Arabic, Book 4
Arabic, requires Elemental Medicine, Medicinal Diving or Medicinal Summoning to benefit

HMRE 30
HMRE 32

3
5

8
9

anonymous
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

10th century
11th century

Arabic, Book 3
Arabic, requires Elemental Medicine, Medicinal Diving or Medicinal Summoning to benefit

HMRE 30
HMRE 32

4
5

8
9

anonymous
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

10th century
11th century

Arabic, Book 2
Arabic, requires Elemental Medicine, Medicinal Diving or Medicinal Summoning to benefit

HMRE 30
HMRE 32

Chretien de Troyes

late 12th century

French

LatL 108

Charm
The Lais of Marie de France
Church Lore
The Bible
Bibliothecae
Lives of the Fathers
On the Courses of the Stars

history

17 book encyclopedia

RoP:tD 86
A&A 26
LatL 64
LatL 65

Civil and Canon Law

Liber Regularum
Corpus Juris Civilis - Digest
Decretum
The Ecclesiastical History
Corpus Juris Civilis - Institutiones

massive compilation of Roman laws

LatL 53
A&A 137
A&A 138
LatL 57
A&A 137

Divine Lore / Dominion Lore

Decem Libri Historiarum
Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din
Contra Hereticos
Caelestis Hierarchia (The Celestial Hierarchy)
Quatuor libri Sententiarum (The Book of Sentences)
The City of God
The Qu'ran
Joseph d'Arimethie
The Llancarfan Saints' Lives
Perceval
Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya
Tadhkirat Al-Awliya'
Books on the Mircales of St. Martin
Kitab al-Irshad
Sefer Ha-Razin

Arabic
Greek original, translated into Latin in 800s, possibly written by an angel or Sol Invictus cultist
book I
5 books
Arabic, compiled within 25 years of Prophet's death
French
French
Arabic
Arabic, altered truths
four volumes, the last incomplete
Arabic
Hebrew

LatL 67
RoP:D 110
LatL 53
RoP:tD
A&A 139
A&A 137
RoP:D 110
LatL 108
LatL 108
LatL 108
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
LatL 64
RoP:D 110
RoP:tD: 134

Elementalist Air*
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Mathematical Sciences
Kitab ash-Shifa (Book of Healing)
Elementalist Earth*
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Theological Sciences
Kitab ash-Shifa (Book of Healing)
Elementalist Fire*
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Psychological and Rational Sciences
Kitab ash-Shifa (Book of Healing)
Elementalist Water*
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Natural Sciences
Kitab ash-Shifa (Book of Healing)
Etiquette
Arthurian Romances
European Lore
Bibliothecae

history

Photius

c. 810 c. 895

various

ancient

17 book encyclopedia

A&A 26

Holy Music*
Heikhalot

Compiled by Lachie Hayes, Sept 2009 (send comments and errata to jarkman.devries@mac.com)

Hebrew

RoP:tD: 135

ArM5 Books by Ability

All books in Latin unless noted; T for Level indicates tractatus, Tx indicates x number of tractati; * after Quality denotes text taught in cathedral schools and universities
Level

Quality

Specialty

Author

Date

5
5
T
T
T

8
12
7
8
8

unknown
Michael Psellos
*Micheal Psellos
Hugh of Amiens
*Priscillian of Avila

10th century
11th century
11th century
1130-1175
4th century

10

Gregory of Tours

10th century

5
5
5
5
6
T
T

9
9
10
10
9
7
10

al-Bukhari
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
Muhammad / Gabriel
al-Tabari
al-Ghazali
Ibn Ishaq
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i

4
T6

8
8

*Moses / God
various sources

4
T

6
8

*Abraham
Isaac the Blind (edited)

3
T

12
5

Gregory of Tours
Wolfram von Eschenbach

3
4
T
T
T

var
var
7
9
10

Heron
Heron
Heron
Heron
Heron

first
first
first
first
first

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

11th century

3
5
6
T2
T
T
var

13
14
9 or 10
7
8
13
10

Hildegard of Bingen
Crateaus
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Hippocrates
Isidore of Seville
Hildegard of Bingen
Gilles de Corbeil

21st century
1st century BC
11th century
ca. 460 BC ca. 370 BC
c.560 - 638
19th century
1140-1224

3
T
T

5
4
8

Rabbi Nehuniah and others

various
various rabbis of the Second Temple

10

Crateaus

14

Notes

Source

Infernal Lore
Sword of Moses
De Operationes Daemonum Dialogus
De Operationes Daemonum
Contra Hereticos
Liber Apologeticus

Aramaic and Hebrew

Greek text
Latin text, Infernal Book
corrupted Infernal Book

RoP:tD: 134
RoP:tI 41
ToME 163
LatL 54
ToME 163

Intrigue
Decem Libri Historiarum

LatL 68

Islamic Law
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih Muslim
The Qu'ran
Jami' al-Bayan 'an Ta'wil al-Qu'ran
Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din
Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya
Al-Risala

10th century
10th century
early 7th century
11th century
12th century
9th century
10th century

Arabic
Arabic
Arabic, compiled within 25 years of Prophet's death
Arabic, translated into Persian
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic

RoP:D
RoP:D
RoP:D
RoP:D
RoP:D
RoP:D
RoP:D

110
110
110
110
110
110
110

ancient
ancient

Hebrew
Aramaic

RoP:tD 135
RoP:tD 135

ancient
1st century

Hebrew
Hebrew

RoP:tD 133
RoP:tD 133

8th century
early 13th century

German

LatL 66
LatL 108

Judaic Lore
The Torah
The Talmud
Kabbalah*
Sefer Yetzirah
Sefer Ha-Bahir ("The Bahir")
Magic Lore
Decem Libri Historiarum
Parsifal
Mechanica of Heron*
Mechanica
Automata (Moving Itself)
Pneumatica
Automaton Theatre
Mechanica

century
century
century
century
century

Greek, 3 volumes
Greek
Greek, use as Lab text for various devices described
Greek
Greek

AM
AM
AM
AM
AM

81
79
80
79
80

Medical Divining*
Al-Qanan fil-Tibb (Canon of Medicine)

requires Virtue Elemental Medicine

HMRE 32

Medicine
Causae et Cura
Herbal
Al-Qanan fil-Tibb (Canon of Medicine)
Aphorisms
Etymologies
Physica
various works

natural philosophy

written in ancient Greek

Arabic, -1Q translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona
7 book encyclopedia
22 book encyclopedia

GoTF 129
HoH:S 124
A&A 138 or HMRE 32
A&A 26
A&A 28
GoTF 127
imp A&A

Merkavah*
Merkavah Rabbah
Heikhalot
Ma'aseh Merkavah (Work of the Chariot)

ancient
ancient
ancient

Hebrew, does not need Study risk roll

Hebrew
Hebrew

RoP:tD 133-134
RoP:tD: 134
RoP:tD 133

Mythic Herbalism*
Herbal

3rd century BC

written in ancient Greek

HoH:S 126

Organisation Lore: Frankish Royalty

Decem Libri Historiarum

Compiled by Lachie Hayes, Sept 2009 (send comments and errata to jarkman.devries@mac.com)

Gregory of Tours

6th century

10 books, details of Merovingian rulers

LatL 64

ArM5 Books by Ability

All books in Latin unless noted; T for Level indicates tractatus, Tx indicates x number of tractati; * after Quality denotes text taught in cathedral schools and universities
Level

Quality

12*

2
2
3
3 or 4
4
4
4
4
5
5
6
6
6
6
T2
T6
5T
T
T17
T10
T
T
T
T
T2
T
T
T
T
Tx
T
T
T
T2
T
T
T
T
T

13
13
7
9
9
7
8
11
7
11
9
10
12
12*
5
6
6
6
7 (5-9)
7 (5-9)
7
7
8
8
8
9
9*
9*
9c
9
10
10
10
12
13
13
13
13
12*

14

4
T6
4

8
8
9

4
5
5
5
5
6
10
T2
T
T
T4
T
T
T
T

8
9*
11
13
13
10*
3
7
8
8*
9
13
13
13
13

Specialty

Author

Date

Aristotle

384-322 BC

Notes

Source

Greek, book 2

A&A 136

Pagan Theology
Metaphysics
Philosophiae
Liber Divinorum Operum (Book of Divine Works)
Causae et Cura
De salibus et aluminibus
A Guide for the Perplexed
Al-Risala al-Jami'a (The Comprehensive Epistle)
Philosophia Mundi
Enneads
Meqor Hayyim / Fons Vitae (The Fountain of Life)
Liber septuaginta
Hexameron (On the Six Days of Creation)
Nichomachean Ethics
The City of God
Nicomachean Ethics
Physics
De nuptiis philologiae et Mercurii (Marriage of Philology and Mercury)
Natural Histories
Natural Histories
Natural Histories
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Natural Sciences
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Psychological and Rational Sciences
Lumen luminis
Belopoeica
Mechanica
Cosmographia
Etymologies
Consolations of Philosophy
Timaeus
Questiones Naturales
Timaeus (trans)
The other Dialogues (various specific titles)
De luce (Light)
De accessione et recessione maris (Tides and Tidal Movements)
De iride (The Rainbow)
Metaphysics
Scito te Ipsum (Know Thyself)
Liber Vitae Meritorum (Book of Life's Merits)
Ordo virtutum (Play of Virtues)
Physica
On the Soul

metaphysics

metaphysics

moral philosophy

natural philosophy
metaphysics
natural philosophy
moral philosophy
metaphysics
moral philosophy

natural philosophy

metaphysics
metaphysics
various

moral philosophy
natural philosophy

Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Rhazes (al-Razi)
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)
anonymous
William of Conches
Plotinus
Avicebron (Solomon ibn Gabirol)
Rhazes (al-Razi)
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste
St Augustine of Hippo
Aristotle
Aristotle
Martianus Capella
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
anonymous
anonymous
Rhazes (al-Razi)
Heron
Heron
Bernard Silvestris
Isidore of Seville
Boethius
Plato
Adelard of Bath
Boethius
Plato
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste
Aristotle
Peter Abelard
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Aristotle

16th century
20th century
865-924
1135-1205
10th century
c.1100-c.1150
c. 205-270
c.1021-c.1058
865-926
c.1175-1258
c.1175-1259
354-431
384-322 BC
384-322 BC
early fifth century
23-79
23-81
23-80
10th century
10th century
865-925
first century
first century
1085-1178
c.560 - 637
480-526
c.429-347 BC
c.1080-c.1150
480-527
c.429-347 BC
c.1175-1255
c.1175-1256
c.1175-1257
384-322 BC
1079-1142
14th century
23rd century
18th century
384-322 BC

if translated into Latin -1Q

written in Arabic, yet to be translated to Latin in 1220
Arabic
six books of nine sections eacj
Latin translation -1Q influenced Scholastics
contains 70 alchemical formulae, if translated into Latin -1Q
written in the 1230s
Latin translation of Greek (Aristotle), -1Q
5 books
ten books in Greek, in 1220, only book II and III in Latin available quivalent to Quality 4* tractatus
Greek, 10 books
Books I and II
37 book encylcopedia
39 book encylcopedia
38 book encylcopedia
Arabic, Book 2, tractati are of varying quality - average quality given
Arabic, Book 3, tractati are of varying quality - average quality given
if translated into Latin -1Q
Greek
Greek, 3 volumes
21 book encyclopedia
not available, known by translation of Calcidius, Quality 8 (-1Q)
commentary on translation of Plato's work
implied in Appendix, not avaiable in Latin

Greek, books 1 & 3

Greek

GoTF 124
GoTF 128
A&A 137
A&A 139 / RoP:tD 133
HMRE 30
A&A 138
A&A 137
A&A 138
A&A 137
A&A 143
A&A 144
A&A 137
A&A 136
A&A 136
A&A 137
A&A 26
A&A 28
A&A 27
HMRE 30
HMRE 30
A&A 137
AM 81
AM 81
A&A 138
A&A 27
RoP:tD
A&A 136
A&A 138
A&A 136
A&A 136
A&A 140
A&A 141
A&A 142
A&A 136
A&A 138
GoTF 122
GoTF 131
GoTF 126
A&A 136

Profession: apothecary
Herbal

Crateaus

1st century BC

written in ancient Greek

HoH:S 124

Hebrew
Aramaic
Hebrew

RoP:tD 134
RoP:tD 134
RoP:tD 133

Rabbinical Law
The Torah
The Talmud
The Mishneh Torah

*Moses / God
various sources
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)

ancient
ancient
1135-1204

Theology
Periphyseon (About Nature)
Quatuor libri Sententiarum (The Book of Sentences)
De Laude Sanctorum
Sic et Non (Yes and No / For and Against)
Liber Divinorum Operum (Book of Divine Works)
The City of God
The Bible
Bibliothecae
Cur Deus Homo (Why Did God Become Man?)
Proslogion
Sentences (Quatuor Libri Sententiarum)
Cautiones
Scivias (Know the Ways)
Liber Vitae Meritorum (Book of Life's Merits)
Ordo virtutum (Play of Virtues)

Compiled by Lachie Hayes, Sept 2009 (send comments and errata to jarkman.devries@mac.com)

John Scotius Eriugena

Peter Lombard
St. Victricius
Peter Abelard
Hildegard of Bingen
St Augustine of Hippo
various authors
Photius
St Anselm
St Anselm
Peter the Lombard
Peter Abelard
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen

c.800-c.877
c.1100-c.1165
380-409
1079-1144
17th century
354-432
ancient
c. 810 c. 893
1033-1109
1033-1110
c.1100-c.1160
1079-1143
13th century
15th century
24th century

an excellent Greek translator

books II-IV

12 books
inspirational rather than educational, always yiedling new insights
17 book encyclopedia

Hildegard had Com +4, Good Teacher Virtue

A&A 137
A&A 139
LatL 53
A&A 138
GoTF 125
A&A 137
RoP:tD 86
A&A 26
A&A 138
A&A 138
RoP:tD 86
A&A 138
GoTF 121
GoTF 123
GoTF 132

ArM5 Books by Ability

All books in Latin unless noted; T for Level indicates tractatus, Tx indicates x number of tractati; * after Quality denotes text taught in cathedral schools and universities
Level

Quality

Specialty

Author

Date

Notes

9th century
9th century
10th century
11th century
early 7th century
8th century
10th century
early 13th century
10th century
9th century
12th century

Arabic
Arabic
Arabic,
Arabic
Arabic,
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic,
Arabic,
Arabic
Arabic

Source

5
5
5
6
10
T
T
T
T11
T
T

9
9
10
9
10
7
8
8
9 (7-11)
10
10

6
T6
6 or 5
T
T

8
8
9
13
13

*Moses / God
various sources
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzakhi)
Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzakhi)

ancient
ancient
1135-1204
1040-1105
1040-1106

Hebrew
Aramaic
written in Arabic, yet to be translated to Latin in 1220

var

12

Averroes

1126-1198

Arabic commentaries on Aristotle, -1Q if translated to Latin

Theology: Islam
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih Muslim
Jami' al-Bayan 'an Ta'wil al-Qu'ran
Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din
The Qu'ran
Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya
Kitab al-Luma'
Tadhkirat Al-Awliya'
The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: Theological Sciences
Al-Risala
Kitab al-Irshad

al-Bukhari
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
al-Tabari
al-Ghazali
Muhammad / Gabriel
Ibn Ishaq
al-Ash'ari
Farid al-Din 'Attar
anonymous
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
Al-Shaykh al-Mufid

translated into Persian

compiled within 25 years of Prophet's death

altered truths
Book 4, tractati are of varying quality - average quality given

RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110
HMRE 30
RoP:D 110
RoP:D 110

Theology: Judaism
The Torah
The Talmud
A Guide for the Perplexed
(1st commentary on Tanakh and the Talmud)
(2nd commentary on Tanakh and the Talmud)

RoP:tD 133
RoP:tD 133
A&A 139 / RoP:tD 133
LatL 106
LatL 106

Special
Commentaries by Averroes on Aristotle's works

Compiled Book Rule Index

General Book Rules
Basic book rules
Advanced book rules
Rules for different types of manuscripts
Rules for different opus types
Rules for encyclopedias
Rules for translations
Rules for folios
Rules for the Great Library of Durenmar
Rules for the Colentes Arcanorum
Special rule for altered evidence (botch on first read even on simple die)
Rules for study partners
Rules for study risk (learning Supernatural Abilities from a book)
Rules for library consultation
Rules for partial manuscripts
Rules for complex books

Source
ArM5 165-166
Covenants 86-91
Covenants 86-87
Covenants 90-91
A&A 26
A&A 87
HoH:TL 22-23
GoTF 55-57
HoH:TL 10-12
RoP:tD 110
RoP:tD 132
RoP:tD 132
AM 68
AM 36
HMRE 30

Quality Ranking of Canonical Authors

Examples (from Art & Academe)

Quality

Comments

(none)
Cicero, Leonardo Fibonacci
Hildegard of Bingen, Peter Abelard
Aristotle, Donatus
Averroes, Avicebron, Gratian
St Augustine, Robert Grosseteste
Adelard of Bath, Alcuin of York, Avicenna, Boethius, Euclid, Maimonides, Plato, Priscian
St Anselm, Bernard Silvestris, John Scottus Eriugena, Isidore of Seville, Plotinus, Ptolemy
Macrobius, Rhazes (al-Razi), William of Conches
Pliny the Elder, Porphyry
Martianus Capella
(none)

15+
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4 or less

Com +5, Good Teacher

Com +4, Good Teacher
Com +3, Good Teacher
Com +2, Good Teacher
Com +1, Good Teacher
Com +3 or Good Teacher
Com +2
Com +1
basic Quality, Com +0
Com -1
Com -2 or below

Note: the Bible is inspirational, rather than educational hence poor Quality but high Level

Compiled by Lachie Hayes, Sept 2009 (send comments and errata to jarkman.devries@mac.com)

A&A 139