The Arabic Version of Aristotle’s Historia Animalium: Book I-X of Kitāb Al-Hayawān

554 Pages·2018·2.82 MB·English

by  L S Filius

TheArabicVersionofAristotle’sHistoriaAnimalium
Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus
foundedbyH.J.DrossaartLulofs
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AcademyofArtsandSciencesaspartoftheCorpusPhilosophorum
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Syriac,ArabicandHebrewtranslationsofAristotle’sworks,ofthe
Latintranslationsofthesetranslationsandthemedievalparaphrases
andcommentariesmadeinthecontextofthistranslationtradition.
Volumes1–4havebeenpublishedbytheRoyalNetherlandsAcademy
ofArtsandSciences.
GeneralEditors
H.Daiber(Frankfurt)
R.Kruk(Leiden)
EditorialBoard
t.a.m. fontaine – j. mansfeld – j.m. van ophuijsen
h.g.b. teule – th.h.m. verbeek
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The Arabic Version of
Aristotle’s Historia Animalium
Booki–xof theKitāb Al-Hayawān
ACriticalEditionwith
IntroductionandSelectedGlossaryby
LourusS.Filius
InCollaborationwith
JohannesdenHeijer
JohnN.Mattock†
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Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction:Aristotle’sHistoriaAnimalium
1 IntroductiontotheKitābal-Ḥayawān 3
2 TheTranslatoroftheKitābal-Ḥayawān 8
3 ReceptionofDeAnimalibusintheArabicTradition 15
RemkeKruk
4 DeAnimalibusintheWiderLiteraryandScientificTradition.Ǧāḥiẓ 23
RemkeKruk
5 TheManuscripts 26
6 ConcordanceofArabicBookNumbersandBekkerNumbers 28
NotestotheArabicText 29
IndextotheNotes 66
DifferencesbetweentheGreekandtheArabicTexts 74
Bibliography 102
ArabicText:Aristotle’sHistoriaAnimalium
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ConciseGlossarytotheArabic-GreekText ٢٨٠

Preface
The edition presented here is the result of many years of work. It started
in 1990 as part of a project funded by NWO to produce critical editions of
the Arabic translation of Aristotle’s zoological works as well as of Michael
Scot’s Latin translation based on the Arabic. In the Arabic, and also in the
Latintradition,Aristotle’sthreezoologicalworks,theHistoriaAnimalium,De
PartibusAnimalium,andDeGenerationeAnimalium,werecombinedintoone
work,knownastheBookonAnimals.
TheArabicpartof theproject,undertakenbymyself andHandenHeijer,
consistedonlyoftheeditionoftheHistoriaAnimalium,sincecriticaleditions
oftheothertwoworkshadalreadyappeared:theArabicversionofDeGenera-
tioneAnimaliumwaseditedbyJ.H.DrossaartLulofsandJ.Brugman(1971),and
thatofDePartibusAnimaliumbyRemkeKruk(1979).
Intheearly1960sthelateJohnMattockhadalreadyproducedapreliminary
editionofthepartsoftheArabicHistoriaAnimaliumextantintheonlyMSof
thetextknownatthetime,BMAdd.7511,buttheworkremainedunpublished.
Mattockverykindlymadehismaterialavailabletotheeditorsof thepresent
edition,whogratefullymadeuseofit.
Han den Heijer had to abandon work on the Historia at an early stage
becausehewasappointedasdirectoroftheDutch-FlemishInstituteinCairo,
andaftertheNWOfundingperiodranoutin1994,Ihadtogobacktofulltime
teachingGreekandLatininasecondaryschool,continuingmyworkonthe
editioninmysparetime.
Asaresult,thecompletionof theworktookalongtime,anditisnotonly
duetomycontinuouseffortbutalsotothesupportandpatienceofanumber
ofpeople,firstofallmywifeAnnelies.
AafkevanOppenraaij,whoisresponsiblefortheLatinpartof theedition
projectandwhoafterpublishingeditionsofScot’sDeGenerationeandDePart-
ibusAnimaliumiscurrentlypreparingtheeditionof the HistoriaAnimalium,
contributedmanyusefulsuggestionsonthebasisofherknowledgeoftheLatin
text. Hans Daiber was an invaluable support, available at any time to let me
benefitfromhisvastknowledge.HealsoreadthecompleteArabictextofthe
editionwithmeticulousscrutiny,andhiscriticalremarksandquestionsledto
substantialimprovements.RemkeKrukcontinuedtosupportmeovertheyears
withencouragementandusefulsuggestions.HansPeterseearnedmygratitude
bycarefullyreadingandcorrectingmyEnglishtexts.Anymistakesorslip-ups
thatmaystillbefoundintheeditioninspiteofallthesecombinedeffortsare
ofcoursecompletelymyownresponsibility.
viii preface
Finally,IwanttothanktheCommissionoftheAristotelesSemitico-Latinus
projectfortheirwillingnesstoincludetheeditioninitsseries.
LouFilius
Culemborg,12-10-2017
Abbreviations
L London-MSBritishlibrary,seeManuscripts
T TehranMSMaǧlisLibrary,seeManuscripts
B Badawi,hisedition
M Mattock,J.N.
D Daiber,H.
O OppenraaijAafkeM.I.van
B-K Biberstein-Kazimirsky
GA DeGenerationeAnimalium
PA DePartibusAnimalium
HA HistoriaAnimalium
LS LiddellandScott
LCL LoebClassicalLibrary
Ullmann,Manfred,WgaÜ Wörterbuch zu den griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen
des9.Jahrhunderts
Idem,WgaÜS1andS2 Supplement1und2
Ullmann,NE DieNicomachischeEthik,intwoparts
WKAS Wörterbuchzudenklassisch-arabischenSprache
Scotus HA:AneditioniscurrentlypreparedbyA.M.I.vanOppenraaij
Mattock hisunfinishedcommentaryontheHA
B-G TextHAbyD.M.BalmeandAllanGotthelf
TF AGlossaryofFishes,editedbyD’ArcyWentworthThompson
TB AGlossaryofGreekBirds,editedbyD’ArcyWentworthThompson
DI DaviesM.andKathirithamby:GreekInsects
MS manuscript
MSS manuscripts
expl. explicitorexplicitusest:theendofthechapterorbook