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"But it was Michael Scot's translations, underwritten, transcribed, and forwarded to the universities at Frederick's command, that did more than anything to bring the Commentator's comprehensive views on philosophy, particularly his reading of Aristotle, to the immediate attention of the Latin-speaking world." [Lyons: House of Wisdom, p. 173] ". . . within fifty years, Latin readers throughout Christendom had at their disposal such once-unimagined wonders as the full body of Aristotle's works, accompanied by extensive Muslim and Jewish commentaries. . . . What Michael Scot and his contemporaries carried away from that richly polymorphic Toledo during those years was a zeal for unpacking and translating not just texts but the Andalusian culture that lay behind them." [Menocal: Ornament of the World, p. 196-7]