Rozinus and Morien

Meaning

Rozinus and Morien are named interpreters and authorities, not interchangeable signatures. I.6.2 uses Rozinus to gloss Calid's obscure saying about souls, mountains, harvest and roots, then introduces Morien's account of water and earth.

Morien's attributed teaching describes the relation of extracted water to its earth and subsequent putrefaction and cleansing, under the express condition of God's help. II.4.11 later calls him the Roman hermit and invokes a saying about putrefying and blackening the fixed grain. The claim that natural philosophers writing throughout the preceding fifteen hundred years reverently cited him is a sweeping chronology of reception, not a date here established for Morien's own teaching. In both places his role is to support the necessary relation of dissolution, putrefaction and preserved substance, not to authorize a reconstructed practical procedure.

“With God's help” preserves moyennant l'aide de Dieu rather than making the success autonomous. Rozinus and Morien retain their printed forms, without silently assigning a modern critical author or title.