Overview
Aristotle's De Animalibus was an important source of zoological knowledge for the ancient Greeks and for medieval Arabs and Europeans. In the thirteenth century, the work was twice translated into Latin. One translation was produced directly from the Greek by William of Moerbeke. An earlier translation, made available as a critical edition in the present volume for the first time, was produced through an intermediary Arabic translation (Kitāb al-Ḥayawān) by Michael Scot (1175 - c. 1232). Scot's translation was one of the main sources of knowledge on animals in Europe and widely used until well into the fifteenth century. As a faithful translation of a translation produced by a Syriac-speaking Christian, the text contributes to our knowledge of Middle Arabic. The De Animalibus is composed of three sections: History of Animals (ten books), Parts of Animals (four books) and Generation of Animals (five books). Parts of Animals and Generation of Animals were published by BRILL as Volumes 5.2 and 5.3 of the book series ASL in 1998 (ASL 5.2) and 1992 (ASL 5.3). The present Volume 5.1.a contains the first section of Scot's translation of History of Animals: the general introduction and books 1-3, with Notes. Editions of the two concluding parts of History of Animals, ASL 5.1.b, books 4-6 and ASL 5.1.c, books 7-10, are in preparation. Complete Latin-Arabic and Arabic-Latin indices of History of Animals will be published in due course.
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Author: Aafke M.I. van Oppenraay
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 5.1.a
Weight: 0.001kg
ISBN: 9789004411265
ISBN 10: 9004411267
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 06 February 2020
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Format: Hardback
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"Aafke M.I. van Oppenraaij, PhD. (1988), studied Classics and Arabic at the University of Amsterdam. She is a fellow of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in Amsterdam and the author of ""Avicenna’s Liber De Animalibus (‘Abbreviatio Avicennae’), Preliminaries and State of Sffairs"" in: Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XXVIII (2017), Amos Bertolacci e Tommaso Alpina (edd.), pp. 401-416. Previous publications in the book series ASL include The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, BRILL, 2012, Aristotle : De Animalibus. Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Volume 2 Books XI-XIV: Parts of Animals, BRILL 1998, and Aristotle : De Animalibus. Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Volume 3 Books XV-XIX: Generation of Animals, BRILL 1992."
