Nicolaus Damascenus. De Plantis. Five Translations

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For three centuries the treatise De plantis has been poorly represented by a Byzantine Greek translation of a mediocre Latin version made from the Arabic, which in its turn came from a Syriac rendering of the lost original. Since this Byzantine version was four times removed from the Greek exemplar, its authority was, to say the least, questionable. However, it was printed in 1539, and in spite of ubiquitous disapproval found its way into all subsequent editions of the Corpus Aristotelicum. In the present book the fragments of the Syriac version and the text of the four other translations (Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew) are edited afresh. As far as possible, the manuscriptal evidence is complete, and each text is provided with an introduction and copious notes concerning philological problems. A few of the numerous commentaries are added and the vexed question of whether Averroes had written a commentary on De plantis is treated at some length.

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Preliminary Material
Pages: I–XVI
Introduction
Pages: 1–16
The Arabic Translation
Pages: 115–345
The Latin Translation
Pages: 465–562
Scholia Graeca
Pages: 627–648
Appendices
Pages: 651–652
Select Bibliography
Pages: 653–665
Indices
Pages: 666–687
Index Ii Arabic
Pages: 688–716
Index Iii Latin
Pages: 717–726
Index Iv Hebrew
Pages: 727–732
Hendrik Johan Drossaart Lulofs (1906-1998), doctorate (1943) Utrecht University, was a classical philologist and historian of philosophy. He published widely on Aristotle and Nicolaus Damascenus. He was one of the founders of the Aristotles Semitico-Latinus project.

Evert Lubbertus Jacobus Poortman, doctorate (1978) University of Amsterdam, reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on Petrus de Alvernia and Nicolaus Damascenus.
All those interested in the Latin and Semitic traditions of the Aristotelian Corpus, and in Mediaeval Philosophy.
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