Transliteration versus Translation of Greek Plant Names in the Syriac Medical Writings of Sergius of Reš ʿAynā: On the Tables of Contents in BL Add. 14,661
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This article explores some of the translational choices made by Sergius of Reš ʿAynā in translating the Greek plant names found in Books VI–VIII of Galen’s treatise On simple drugs into Syriac, and especially as found in the “tables of contents”—or pínakes—which preface these books. These latter took the form of alphabetically ordered lists of Greek phytonyms transliterated into Syriac characters, occasionally followed by a translational gloss in Syriac. After a brief introduction, we discuss the form, function and content of these pínakes, outline a typology, and suggest explanations for selected problematic features.
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I. Löw, Aramäische Pflanzennamen (Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1881) p. 18.
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M. Martelli, ‘Medicina ed alchimia. Estratti Galenici nel corpus degli scritti alchemici siriaci di Zosimo’, Galenos 4 (2010), pp. 207–228.
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Bhayro, Hawley, Kessel and Pormann, ‘Collaborative research’; idem, ‘Progress, prospects and problems’; Bhayro and Brock, ‘The Syriac Galen Palimpsest and the role of Syriac’; Bhayro and Hawley, ‘La littérature botanique’, pp. 294–299.
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Bhayro, Hawley, Kessel & Pormann, ‘Collaborative research’, pp. 261 (note 4), 264; eidem, ‘Progress, prospects and problems’, p. 134; Bhayro and Brock, ‘The Syriac Galen Palimpsest and the role of Syriac’, pp. 32–36.
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See also R. Hawley, ‘More identifications of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest’, Semitica et Classica 7 (2014), pp. 237–272 (238, 242, Fig. 6).
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See also Hawley, ‘More identifications’, pp. 238, 241 (Fig. 4).
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See also Bhayro and Hawley, ‘La littérature botanique’, pp. 312–313.
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See also Bhayro and Hawley, ‘La littérature botanique’, p. 313.
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Transliteration versus Translation of Greek Plant Names in the Syriac Medical Writings of Sergius of Reš ʿAynā: On the Tables of Contents in BL Add. 14,661
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This article explores some of the translational choices made by Sergius of Reš ʿAynā in translating the Greek plant names found in Books VI–VIII of Galen’s treatise On simple drugs into Syriac, and especially as found in the “tables of contents”—or pínakes—which preface these books. These latter took the form of alphabetically ordered lists of Greek phytonyms transliterated into Syriac characters, occasionally followed by a translational gloss in Syriac. After a brief introduction, we discuss the form, function and content of these pínakes, outline a typology, and suggest explanations for selected problematic features.
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| Abstract Views | 417 | 50 | 4 |
| Full Text Views | 362 | 4 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 135 | 10 | 2 |
