Guido Bonatti
On Longevity*

«Many men have reached a very advanced age: of these I have seen in my time only a certain Ricardus, who said that he had been at the court of Charlemagne and was 400 years old. And it is said also that there was another, who lived at the time of Jesus Christ and was called Johannes Buttadeus. Because he had driven the Lord along when he was being led to the Crucifixion, the Master made clear to him: «You shall await me, until I come again.» This Ricardus I saw at Ravenna in the year 1223; Johannes, on a pilgrimage to Santiago, passed through Forli in the year of our Lord 1267.»

*from Guido Bonatti: De astronomia tractatus X, written late 13th century, first printed 1491 in Augsburg.
The quotation is from George K. Anderson: The Legend of the Wandering Jew (p 22).
For his translation it seems that he has used the 1550 edition, printed in Basel.

Se også: The Catholic Encyclopedia om astrologi

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