This article examines the Pseudo-Proclean text Questions on Natural Things (Masāʾil Frqlīs fī l-ašyāʾ aṭ-ṭabīʿiyya) in close comparison with its parallels in the second Mīmrā of Job of Edessa’s Book of Treasures. It tries to shed some light on the provenance and the sources of these texts, their place in the Problemata physica tradition, their relation to each other and to the Kitāb Sirr al-ḫalīqa, and the interests behind the compilation of the particular set of questions we encounter in them. Both texts are appended in the original Arabic and Syriac with facing English translations.
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Bernhard Lewin, “Job d’Edesse et son Livre des Trésors: Contribution à l’étude de ses sources,” Orientalia Suecana 6 (1957): 26‒30.
See e.g. Hans Daiber, “Masāʾil wa-aḏj̱wiba,” in Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, vol. 6 (Leiden [a. o.]: Brill, 1991), 636‒9.
See Ursula Weisser, Das “Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana (Berlin [a. o.]: Walter de Gruyter, 1980), 55‒63; Paul Kraus, Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān: Contribution à l’histoire des idées scientifiques dans l’Islam, vol. 2: Jābir et la science grecque (Cairo: Impr. de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1942), 270‒303.
Pseudo-Apollonius, Sirr al-ḫalīqa, 109; Weisser, Geheimnis der Schöpfung, 90.
Job of Edessa, Book of Treasures, 128, 374; Pseudo-Apollonius, Sirr al-ḫalīqa, 471; Weisser, Geheimnis der Schöpfung, 143.
Transl. by David Gallop, Aristotle On Sleep and Dreams (Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1996), 71.
Cf. Julius Rocca, Galen on the Brain: Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century A.D. (Leiden [a.o.]: Brill, 2003), 197, 245‒6.
Cf. Lewin, “Job d’Edesse,” 26; Weisser, Geheimnis der Schöpfung, 59.
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This article examines the Pseudo-Proclean text Questions on Natural Things (Masāʾil Frqlīs fī l-ašyāʾ aṭ-ṭabīʿiyya) in close comparison with its parallels in the second Mīmrā of Job of Edessa’s Book of Treasures. It tries to shed some light on the provenance and the sources of these texts, their place in the Problemata physica tradition, their relation to each other and to the Kitāb Sirr al-ḫalīqa, and the interests behind the compilation of the particular set of questions we encounter in them. Both texts are appended in the original Arabic and Syriac with facing English translations.
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