(Magnus), a Dominican friar, and afterwards archbishop of Ratibon, was one of the most learned men and most famous doctors of the 13th century. He was by the ignorant charged with being a magician, and making a machine resembling a man, which they foolishly imagined explained all the difficulties he proposed to it. He died at Cologne, November 15, 1280. His works were printed at Lyons, in 1651, in 21 volumes in folio.

a gold coin, worth about 14 French livres: it was coined during the administration of Albertus archduke of Austria.