The letter before the spirit : the importance of text editions for the study of the reception of Aristotle / / edited by Aafke M.I. van Oppenraay ; with the collaboration of Resianne Fontaine.

• TeilnehmendeR: Oppenraaij, Aafke M. I. van.; Fontaine, Resianne, 1953-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (541 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction --; The Letter before the Spirit: Still Editing Aristotle after 2300 Years /; The Textual Tradition of the Graeco-Arabic Plotinus. The Theology of Aristotle, Its “ruʾūs al-masāʾil”, and the Greek Model of the Arabic Version /; A Christian Arabic Meteorological Treatise Attributed to ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-Faḍl (11th c.) or to Bonaventura de Lude (17th c.). Its Greek, Arabic and Latin Sources. Prolegomena to a Critical Edition /; The Arabo-Latin Aristotle /; Edition of the Syriac Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus. With a Preliminary Report on the Edition of the Book of Heaven and the World and the Book of Generation and Corruption of the Cream of Wisdom /; Barhebraeus’s Analytics: Medical Analytics /; The Sefer ha-nefesh. A First Attempt to Translate Aristotle’s De anima into Hebrew /; Thirteenth Century Hebrew Psychological Discussion: The Role of Latin Sources in the Formation of Hebrew Aristotelianism /; Are the Medieval Hebrew Translations of Averroes’ Commentaries on Aristotle Still of Value and Worth Editing? /; The Early Reception of Aristotle through Averroes in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: The Case of the Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah /; Contamination and Interlingual Contamination as a Challenge to the Averrois Opera: The Case of the Judaeo-Arabic Transmission of Averroes’ Manuscripts /; Textual and Philosophical Issues in Averroes’s Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle /; A Hidden Hapax Legomenon in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Considerations on the Use of Anniyya and Ayyiyya in the Ilāhiyyāt of the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ /; The Physics of the Avicenna Latinus and Its Significance for the Reception of Aristotle’s Physics in the West /; The Critical Edition of Aristotle’s De animalibus in the Arabic-Latin Translation of Michael Scot. Its Purpose and Its Significance for the History of Science /; The Critical Edition of Albert the Great’s Commentaries on De sensu et sensato and De memoria et reminiscentia: Its Significance for the Study of the 13th Century Reception of Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia and Its Problems /; Guillaume de Moerbeke Traducteur du Liber de bona fortuna et de l’Éthique à Eudème /; Challenges in Syriac Text Editions Using the DOS-based Word Processor Multi-Lingual Scholar /; Édition Critique et Moyens Informatiques: Une Édition Assistée, «Armée» /; Index Nominum --; Index Operum --; Index Rerum --; Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283855100; 9004235086
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Aafke M.I. van Oppenraay ; with the collaboration of Resianne Fontaine.

The Letter before the Spirit contains original articles based on the papers given at the Huygens ING (The Hague, 2009) on the importance of text editions for the study of the transmission of Aristotle’s works in the Semitico-Latin translations and their commentary tradition in the medieval world. Authors underline this importance in general overviews and theoretical outlines and present their own work on various text editions, ranging from Syriac and Arabic to Hebrew and (Graeco) Latin, and from Aristotle, Avicenna and Averroes to Plotinus, Michael Scot, William of Moerbeke, Judah ha-Kohen, Barhebraeus and Albertus Magnus. Editors are further encouraged to cross boundaries between disciplines and study the translation tradition of Aristotle’s works in its entirety.