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Al-Farabi, Didascalia Rhetorice, Latin translation by Hermannus Alemannus

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Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, AB 40 18/i, 8

Pieter Beullens - FWO Vlaanderen (KU Leuven) (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Al-Farabi, Didascalia Rhetorice, Latin translation by Hermannus Alemannus
Shelfmarks AB 40 18/i, 8
Former Shelfmarks L 57
Page/Folio Reference cover
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 13th century
Script, Hands

Gothica textualis

Original Condition

Page Height 104 – 106 mm
Page Width 108 – 114 mm
Number of Columns 2

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
More about the Current Condition

Some loss of text due to small holes in the parchment, modern shelfmark label pasted over the text, older one on the bottom of the spine with number "920" written in red ink.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One larger initial in blue decorated with red penwork, two initials in red ink.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Didascalia Rhetorice
    • Content Description

      §19-21, p. 181,5-182,3 & 182,7-183,1 ed. Grignaschi

      Selected variants in comparison with that edition:
      181,7: non habent(ur) autem] non oportet ut (ag?)at
      181,9: sermocination vis] sermocinationis
      182,2: propria] ipsa
      182,11: utatur] ut utatur
      182,13: hec] hee
    • Glosses and Additions None
    • Edition Al-Fārābī. Deux ouvrages inédits sur la Réthorique. II. Didascalia in Rethoricam Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabi, ed. Mario Grignaschi (Beyrouth, 1971).
    • Secondary Literature Frédérique Woerther, "Al-Fārābī and the Didascalia," Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition, ed. Ahmed Alwishah, Josh Hayes (Cambridge, 2015), p. 92-104.
    • Remarks

      The text of the Latin translation is only extant in MS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 16097 (fol. 188r-196v). The Arabic text was lost.

History

Provenance

Host volume came from the Bibliothek des Domgymnasiums Halberstadt (shelfmark: L 57) -
Frater Antoninus Lintzinius -
[information kindly provided by Dr. Julia Knödler]

Host Volume

Title Compendium Thaumaturgae Vitae S. Ludovici Bertrandi Ord. Praedicatorum, Indiarum Occidentalium Apostoli
Date of Origin/Publication 1671
Shelfmark AB 40 18/i, 8
Remarks

Fragment of one leaf, pasted over the covers and the spine of the printed book. Modern label with shelfmark partially covering the text.
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