Inspired Poetry: Śāntākaragupta’s Play on the Legend of Prince Sudhana and the Kinnarī

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 73-104
Author(s):  
Csaba Dezső
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Poetic Diction ◽  
Literary Influences

A fragment of a play written on the Buddhist legend of prince Sudhana and the kinnarī has been microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. It was probably written at the end of the eleventh century in Bengal by a Buddhist scholar called Śāntākaragupta. The present article contains a critical edition and an English translation of the fragment, as well as an analysis of the intertextuality of the play and especially the literary influences that shaped the author’s poetic diction.

PROCLUS ON PLATO'S TIMAEUS 89e3–90c7

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Arnzen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Manuscript Transmission ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAlthough the existence of an Arabic translation of a section of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus lost in the Greek has been known since long, this text has not yet enjoyed a modern edition. The present article aims to consummate this desideratum by offering a critical edition of the Arabic fragment accompanied by an annotated English translation. The attached study of the contents and structure of the extant fragment shows that it displays all typical formal elements of Proclus' commentaries, whereas its conciseness and shortcomings raise certain doubts about its completeness. As a parergon, the article includes an analysis of a hitherto neglected letter by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, which is attached to the fragment in the manuscript transmission. In addition to providing some insight into the origins of the Proclian fragment, this letter sheds some light on the Syriac and Arabic reception of some works by Hippocrates and Galen, especially Hippocrates' On Regimen in Acute Diseases and the history of its Arabic translation.

LA GÉOMÉTRIE DE L'ASTROLABE AU Xe SIÈCLE Geometry of the Astrolabe in the Tenth Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abgrall Philippe
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Stereographic Projection ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conical Projection ◽  
Geometrical Transformation ◽  
History Of

Many studies on the astrolabe were written during the period from the ninth to the eleventh century, but very few of them related to projection, i.e., to the geometrical transformation underlying the design of the instrument. Among those that did, the treatise entitled The Art of the Astrolabe, written in the tenth century by Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, represents a particulary important phase in the history of geometry. This work recently appeared in a critical edition with translation and commentary by Roshdi Rashed. It contains the earliest known theory of the projection of the sphere, a theory developed in a commentary written by a contemporary mathematician, Ibn Sahl. Following R. Rashed, the present article offers here a thorough mathematical analysis of al-Qūhī's treatise and of the commentary by Ibn Sahl. It also presents, with commentary, an account of a contemporary treatise on the projection of the sphere, written by al-[Sdotu]āġānī. The latter work is concerned with the conical projection of a sphere on a plane, from a point on an axis of the sphere, other than its pole. The author consciously avoids the case of stereographic projection, but he studies all the other cases of conical projection which, if we employ the terms of al-Qūhī's theory, are compatible with the movement of the instrument (i.e. the rotation of the sphere around its axis). These three texts provide clear evidence of the emergence, during the second half of the tenth century, of a new field of study, that of projective geometry.

Eusebius of Caesarean Commentary on Psalm 37 in the Old Georgian Version

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-38
Author(s):  
Сергий Ким
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Eusebius Of Caesarea

Толкование Евсевия Кесарийского на 37-й псалом в греческом оригинале было исследовано автором настоящей статьи в рамках проекта по Александрийской и Антиохийской экзегезе при Берлинско-Бранденбургской академии наук1 в 2017-2018 гг. По итогам исследования греческих рукописей было подготовлено новое критическое издание (в печати). Данная статья является продолжением работы над этим памятником и представляет читателю первую часть древнегрузинской версии Толкования на 37-й псалом и её русского перевода. The Greek original of the Commentary on Psalm 37 by Eusebius of Caesarea was studied by the author of the present contribution in the frame of the project «Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike» at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2017-2018. The investigation of the Greek manuscripts led to a new critical edition of Eusebius’ text (forthcoming). We conceive the present article as a continuation of our study on this text and offer the reader a first part of the critical edition of the hitherto inedited Old Georgian version of Eusebius’ Commentary on Psalm 37 alongside its Russian translation.

‘The Chapters on Knowledge’ of Isaac of Nineveh. Part I.

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Максим Глебович Калинин ◽  
Татьяна Борисовна Лидская ◽  
Александр Михайлович Преображенский ◽  
Сергей Сергеевич Туркин
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
Book Series ◽  
The Bible

Настоящая публикация открывает серию статей, которые будут предшествовать изданию «Глав о ведении» Исаака Сирина в серии «Библия и христианская древность. Supplementum». В этих статьях будут пересмотрены существующие русские переводы«Глав о ведении», предложены историкофилологические комментарии к тексту, а также представлен оригинальный текст глав по их известным рукописям. В статье представлен набор сирийского текста по рукописи Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms syr. e. 7 и пересмотренный русский перевод С. С. Туркина глав 1-10 из первой сотницы, сопровождаемый комментариями. The present paper opens a series of articles that will precede the critical edition of the «Chapters on Knowledge» of Isaac of Nineveh (to be published in «The Bible and Christian Antiquity. Supplementum» book series). In these articles, all the existing Russian translations of the «Chapters on Knowledge» will be revised; further, there will be provided a critical edition of the chapters based on all the known manuscripts, as well as historical and philological notes to the text. In the present article, the Syriac text of the chapters 1-10 against the Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms syr. e. 7, as well as the revised version of Sergey Turkin’s Russian translation are provided.

scholarly journals Tyconius’ Apocalypse Commentary, Its Reconstruction, and Its Significance for Augustine’s Doctrine of the Two Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-532
Author(s):  
Johannes van Oort
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Translation ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Two Cities

Abstract The present article deals with Roger Gryson’s reconstruction of Tyconius’ lost Commentary on the Apocalypse (CCL 107A), his subsequent French translation of this reconstructed Commentary (CCT 10), and the English translation Tyconius, Exposition of the Apocalypse by Francis Gumerlock, with long introduction and ample notes by David Robinson (FoC 134). After having reviewed the strenghths and weaknesses of each of these publications, the article concludes with a discussion of the significance of Tyconius’ Commentary for the question of the origin of Augustine’s two civitates doctrine.

scholarly journals Translating The Disaster of Mourice Blanchot Between Ann Smock and Azzedine Chentouf

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Soufiane Laachiri
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Translation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Other Hand

The present article attempts to present a succinct and circumspect comparison between two different translations for Mourice Blanchot’s book « L’écriture du désastre ».The first translation was performed by Ann Smock in 1995 and was from French into English, while the other translation was skillfully produced by Azzedine Chentouf from French into Arabic in 2018. The contrast in attitudes and translational fertilization has provided us with ample opportunities to study, reflect on, and rethink the nexus of  Blanchot’s philosophy from different linguistic perspectives. However, in our attempt to formulate our judgments on the English and Arabic versions of the book, we can judge by an escapable logic and with analytical evidence that the English translation entitled « The writing of the disaster » has intensified the hold of a literal translation that makes the chances of being close to the original meaning of the source text depressingly small. Chentouf’s translation, on the other hand, remains profoundly meaningful; it is capable of going down into the marrow of  Blanchot’s thought to assert understanding of his intellectual complexities. In brief, despite the triviality of the advanced examples, we are certain that Azzedine Chentouf, through his Arabic translation, knows the hard philosophical portrait of Mourice Blanchot in its inclusiveness. Therefore, it is no surprise that every choice he makes in this translation explains his tremendous efforts as a philosopher first before being ranked as a translator.

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