The first documented mention of grapes called "muscat" was in the works of the English Franciscan scholar Bartholomeus Anglicus who wrote of wine made from Muscat grapes in his work De proprietatibus rerum written between 1230 and 1240 while Anglicus was studying in what is now modern Saxony in Germany.
A primeira mención documentada da uva chamada moscatel foi nos traballos do franciscano inglés Bartholomeus Anglicus, quen escribiu sobre o viño feito de uvas moscatel no seu traballo De proprietatibus rerum, escrito entre 1230-1240, mentres estaba a estudar no que agora é a moderna Saxonia, en Alemaña.