Aristotle de Animalibus. Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Volume 1a: Books I-III: History of Animals A Critical Edition with an Introduction, Notes and Indices

The present volume offers the first critical edition of the first part of Michael Scot's thirteenth-century Arabic-Latin translation of Aristotle's History of Animals.

About the author

Aafke M.I. van Oppenraaij, PhD. (1988), studied Classics and Arabic at the University of Amsterdam. She is a fellow of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in Amsterdam and the author of "Avicenna's Liber De Animalibus ('Abbreviatio Avicennae'), Preliminaries and State of Sffairs" in: Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XXVIII (2017), Amos Bertolacci e Tommaso Alpina (edd.), pp. 401-416. Previous publications in the book series ASL include The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle, BRILL, 2012, Aristotle: De Animalibus. Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Volume 2 Books XI-XIV: Parts of Animals, BRILL 1998, and Aristotle: De Animalibus. Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Volume 3 Books XV-XIX: Generation of Animals, BRILL 1992.

Product details

• Assisted by: Aafke M. I. van Oppenraay (Editor), Aafke M I van Oppenraay (Editor), Aafke M. I. van Oppenraay (Translation), Aafke M I van Oppenraay (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 06.02.2020
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology
• EAN: 9789004411265
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41126-5
• Pages: 270
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 23.6 x 2.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 590 g
• Series: Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus > 5
• Subjects: Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Westliche Mittelalterliche Philosophie