Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation

224 Pages·2016·2.948 MB·English

by  Faith Wallis (editor)

Medieval Textual Cultures
Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam – Tension, Transmission,
Transformation
Edited by Patrice Brodeur, Carlos Fraenkel,
Assaad Elias Kattan, and Georges Tamer
Volume 6
Medieval
Textual Cultures
Agents of Transmission, Translation
and Transformation
Edited by
Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky
ISBN 978-3-11-046546-4
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Acknowledgements
On behalf of the other members of the McGill Research Group “Transmission,
Translation and Transformation in Medieval Textual Cultures” – Professors
Jamie Fumo,Carlos Fraenkel,Cecily Hilsdale and Jamil Ragep – we would like
to thank Québec’s Fonds de recherche sur la société et culture (FQRSC) for
their financial support during the period when we were an “Équipe en fonc-
tionnement.”ThanksarealsoduetoDrJoAnnLevesque,thenheadofMcGill’s
Office of Research Opportunities, as well as Linda Kemp of McGill’s Research
Grants Office, for their invaluable assistance as we prepared and submitted
ourfundingapplicationtoFQRSC.DrEdwin(Zoli)Filotaswasagreathelp dur-
ing the first stage of preparing this volume for review. Dr Walter Young’s assis-
tance was especially precious during the formatting and copy-editing of the
text; to him we owe a major debt of gratitude.
At De Gruyter, Dr Alissa Jones Nelson expertly shepherded us through the
process of review and publication. De Gruyter’s anonymous reviewer is also
owed our thanks, for the thoughtful and positive comments and suggestions
thatweremadeonthefirstdraft.Finally,wewouldliketothankourcontributors
for their patience as we gathered and edited the final contributions.
Prof. Faith Wallis Prof. Robert Wisnovsky
Departments of History and Classical Institute of Islamic Studies
Studies, McGill University
and of Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University

Table of Contents
Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky
Introduction: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation 1
Alain Touwaide
Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine
Medicine 13
Keren Abbou Hershkovits
Galenism at the ʿAbbāsid Court 39
Charles Burnett and David Juste
A New Catalogue of Medieval Translations into Latin of Texts on Astronomy
and Astrology 63
Warren Zev Harvey
Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas: A Conversation 77
Christine Chism
Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic
Text 85
Frank T. Coulson
Literary criticism in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s
Metamorphoses 121
Michael McVaugh
On the Individuality of the Medieval Translator 133
Raphaela Veit
Charles I of Anjou as Initiator of the Liber Continens Translation: Patronage
Between Foreign Affairs and Medical Interest 145
Rosa Comes
The Transmission of Azarquiel’s Magic Squares in Latin Europe 159
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Carlos Fraenkel
On the Integration of Islamic and Jewish Thought: An Unknown Project
Proposal by Shlomo Pines 199
Index 209
A note on the forms of personal and institutional
names
ThetransliterationofArabicwordsandnamesofhistoricpersonagesfollowsthe
normsoftheEncyclopaediaofIslam3rdedition(Leiden:Brill,2007–),savewhere
thereferenceistotheLatintranslationandreceptionoftheauthor’sworks(e.g.
Rhazesinsteadofal-RāzīintheessaybyVeit,AzarquielinsteadofAbūIsḥāqal-
Zarqālluh in the contribution by Comes).
Manuscripts are identified by city, repository, and shelf-mark.The name of
the city appears in its English form (e.g. Vienna rather than Wien), but the
name of the repository in the language of the country (e.g.Vienna,Österreichi-
sche Nationalbibliothek).
The place of publication of printed books appears in its English form (e.g.
Naples rather than Napoli).