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The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version Introduction, Text, Annotated Translation, and Slavic Index
The original Arabic Secret of Secrets was probably compiled from multiple sources, and dates from about the tenth century. It purports to be the advice of Aristotle to his pupil Alexander the Great on all the knowledge - political, ethical, military, medical, and occult - needed by a great king. It was translated into Latin, Hebrew, and many European languages. It has been described as one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. The Hebrew version was translated into a variety of East Slavic, probably in Kiev before 1483. This idiosyncratic version contains major...
The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by the Flemish canon Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in a considerable number of later manuscripts which transformed the knowledge assembled by him and which became starting points for new appraisals of their texts and images. Shaping Knowledge examines the processes which determined this transfer over the centuries and evaluates the specific achievements of the different generations of scribes and illuminators. Taking account of the full range of manuscripts which transmit material from the Liber Floridus and focusing in more detail on three of them – now in the Herzog August...
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374) worked over many years on his long historical text about the Lives of ancient Roman military heroes, De viris illustribus (On Famous Men). Left unfinished at his death, the text was completed by 1379 by Petrarch’s colleague, Lombardo della Seta. Within a decade, De viris illustribus was translated into Italian; and in 1476 the Libro degli uomini famosi was printed in Poiano outside of Verona by the eccentric humanist and scribe, Felice Feliciano (1433–1479/1480). The edition includes a peculiar feature: preceding each of the Lives is a page on which is printed an interlace woodcut border within which, however, no image appears.
The present book surveys the...
- Preface
- Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson
- The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti
- Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock
- Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone
- Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philosophers (or, on 'Dhis and Dhat') / Julian Faultless
- Le scepticisme et sa réfutation selon al-Malāḥimī / Charles Genequand
- Mediating the medium: the Arabic Plotinus on vision / Rotraud Hansberger
- Shīʹī views of the death of the Prophet Muḥammad / Etan Kohlberg
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's exposition of mayl / Y. Tzvi Langermann
- ʻĪsā ibn ʻUmayr's Ibāḍī theology and...
