The Apple or Aristotle's Death (De Pomo Sive De Morte Aristitilis)

164 Pages·1968·0.52 MB·English

by  Mary F. Rousseau

The Apple : Or, Aristotle's Death : De Pomo
title: Sive De Morte Aristotilis Mediaeval
Philosophical Texts in Translation ; 18
author: Aristotle.; Rousseau, Mary F.
publisher: Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0874622182
print isbn13: 9780874622188
ebook isbn13: 9780585197906
language: English
subject Philosophy, Medieval--Sources.
publication date: 1968
lcc: B467.A8E5 1968eb
ddc: 185
subject: Philosophy, Medieval--Sources.
Page i
The Apple or Aristotle's Death
(De Pomo sive De Morte Aristotilis)
Page ii
MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS IN TRANSLATION
NO. 18
EDITORIAL BOARD
James H. Robb, L.S.M., Ph.D., Chairman
The Rev. Gerard Smith, S.J., Ph.D.
The Rev. Michael V. Murray, S.J., Ph.D.
The Rev. Richard E. Arnold, S.J., Ph.D.
Paul M. Byrne, L.S.M., Ph.D.
The Rev. John Sheets, S.J., S.T.D.
Marquette University Press 1131 W. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1968
Page iii
The Apple or Aristotle's Death
(De Pomo sive De Morte Aristotilis)
Translated from the Latin with an Introduction by Mary F. Rousseau,
M.A.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Mount Mary College
Marquette University Press
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1968
Page iv
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 68-28028
© Copyright, 1968, The Marquette University Press
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Printed in the United States of America
Page v
To Edward,
who has taken the root
and delights in the fruit.
Page vi
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, of Warsaw, for
their permission to translate into English Marianus Plezia's Latin text
of Aristotelis qui ferebatur Liber de Pomo; the Royal Asiatic Society
of Great Britain and Ireland, for their permission to reprint Professor
D. S. Margoliouth's English translation from Persian of The Book of
the Apple, from the 1892 volume (n. s. XXIV) of the Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; and to the
Cambridge University Press, for permission to quote from R.
Hackforth's Plato's Phaedo Translated with Introduction and
Commentary (Cambridge: University Press, 1955).
Page vii
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Note on Abbreviations [1]
Preface [3]
Translator's Introduction
Section I, The Doctrinal Development of The Apple [11]
Section II, The History of The Apple, (A-P) [28]
Section III, The Manuscript Tradition of the Latin [38]
Version of The Apple
The Apple, or Aristotle's Death [48]
Appendix: Margoliouth's Translation of the Persian [60]
Version of The Apple
Bibliography [77]
Page 1
Note on Abbreviations
The treatise under question in this study is one work, although it exists
in several versions in various languages. Its earliest form is an Arabic
version which became known to the modern world through a quite
accurate Persian translation after the Arabic text itself was lost. A
thirteenth century Hebrew version which purports to be a translation
of the Arabic is so loosely done and so extensively modified from the
original as to constitute a basically different, second version. The
work is also referred to by several different, though similar, titles. In
order to reduce this confusion, I shall refer to the work throughout my
study by its simplest title: The Apple. Variants of this title will be
noted when necessary. Statements about The Apple which do not
specify any particular version are meant to apply to it generally, in all
its known versions and translations.
The second, or Hebrew, version was soon translated into Latin and
became enormously popular in medieval Europe. This Latin version,
which closely follows the Hebrew and thus drastically departs from
the Arabic original, is the chief focus of my study. But the other
versions are also treated, though incidentally, as they illumine the
Latin. Thus it is necessary to specify at times which version I am
referring to. In order to simplify these references, I have devised the
following abbreviations:
(1) A-P. This symbol refers to the Arabic-Persian version. The Persian
translation has been published, whereas the recently discovered
Arabic text has not. Thus the Persian text is at present our closest
access to the original.
(2) H-L. This symbol refers to the second, the Hebrew-Latin version.
In this study of medieval scholasticism, I am directing primary
attention to the Latin translation of the Hebrew.
(3) One large part of my study is of the manuscript tradition of the
Latin version. My work here is based on the catalogue of medieval
Latin manuscripts of Aristotle, Aristoteles Latinus, assembled by
Dulong, Franceschini, Lacombe, and Birkenmajer. The codices
catalogued in Aristoteles Latinus are numbered consecutively
throughout the three volumes. Thus I have found it convenient to refer
to the Latin manuscripts of The Apple by their numbers in this
catalogue. A typical citation will be AL 1774.
(4) The early printed versions of the Latin text are referred to by their
numbers in Gesamtkatalog Der Wiegendrucke, thus: GKW 2450. For
those which are available in American libraries, I also cite a number
from Stillwell's Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800. An example
of such citations is A860.
(5) Finally, I refer frequently to Moritz Steinschneider's catalog