Aristotle's "Meteorology" in the Arabico-Latin Translation: Critical Edition of Both Texts, Introduction, Index and Registers (Aristoteles ... the Texts, with Introduction and Indexes: 12 - Hardcover

Schoonheim, Pieter L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004117601 ISBN 13: 9789004117600

Publisher: Brill, 2000

Synopsis

Aristotle's Meteorology is - after the theoretical works Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione - the first practical application on the evidence of the elements and their properties. The texts of the Arabic and Latin versions, the last of which is printed here for the first time, are presented together with an Introduction and Index.

About this title

Synopsis:

The Greek text of Aristotle's "Meteorology" is in places highly problematic. Its edition by Fobes (1922), however, is a highlight in editorial technique. The Arabic version (c.800) is of quite different form and content. The two editions by Badawi (1961) and Petraitis (1967) were subject to considerable improvement. The present edition was done on the basis of the two extant Arabic manuscripts. The edition of the Latin translation (12th century) from the Arabic has been constituted on the basis of five manuscript sources, out of 110 copies. The status of both the Arabic and the Latin texts was bad, but not hopeless: as the Latin version stands near to its Arabic predecessor, the text of the latter gives support to the editing of the text, as well as for the understanding of the contents. This procedure works vice versa. The present edition of the texts has been complemented with an index of technical terms in Arabic, Greek and Latin and registers on the Greek and Latin. A bibliography and list of Latin manuscripts are also presented.

About the Author:

Pieter L. Schoonheim, Litt.Dr. (1974) in Aristotelian Studies at the University of Amsterdam, was sometimes Fellow of NIAS, Wassenaar. He has regularly contributed to the conferences of the Project Recupero di Testi Classici attraverso le Lingue del Vicino e Medio Oriente (Naples). He is presently working at a library in Middelburg, the Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9004117601
• ISBN 13: 9789004117600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264