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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Letter before the Spirit: Still Editing Aristotle after 2300 Years / Dimitri Gutas -- The Textual Tradition of the Graeco-Arabic Plotinus. The Theology of Aristotle, Its “ruʾūs al-masāʾil”, and the Greek Model of the Arabic Version / Cristina D’Ancona -- 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 / Hans Daiber -- The Arabo-Latin Aristotle / Charles Burnett -- 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 / Hidemi Takahashi -- Barhebraeus’s Analytics: Medical Analytics / Jens O. Schmitt -- The Sefer ha-nefesh. A First Attempt to Translate Aristotle’s De anima into Hebrew / Alexander Fidora -- Thirteenth Century Hebrew Psychological Discussion: The Role of Latin Sources in the Formation of Hebrew Aristotelianism / Yossef Schwartz -- Are the Medieval Hebrew Translations of Averroes’ Commentaries on Aristotle Still of Value and Worth Editing? / Steven Harvey -- The Early Reception of Aristotle through Averroes in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: The Case of the Midrash ha-Ḥokhmah / Resianne Fontaine -- Contamination and Interlingual Contamination as a Challenge to the Averrois Opera: The Case of the Judaeo-Arabic Transmission of Averroes’ Manuscripts / Heidrun Eichner -- Textual and Philosophical Issues in Averroes’s Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle / Richard C. Taylor -- A Hidden Hapax Legomenon in Avicenna’s Metaphysics: Considerations on the Use of Anniyya and Ayyiyya in the Ilāhiyyāt of the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ / Amos Bertolacci -- The Physics of the Avicenna Latinus and Its Significance for the Reception of Aristotle’s Physics in the West / Jules Janssens -- 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 / Aafke M.I. van Oppenraay -- 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 / Silvia Donati -- Guillaume de Moerbeke Traducteur du Liber de bona fortuna et de l’Éthique à Eudème / Valérie Cordonier and Carlos Steel -- Challenges in Syriac Text Editions Using the DOS-based Word Processor Multi-Lingual Scholar / George A. Kiraz -- Édition Critique et Moyens Informatiques: Une Édition Assistée, «Armée» / Paul Tombeur -- Index Nominum -- Index Operum -- Index Rerum -- Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus.