Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew Text, Medieval Latin Translation, Modern English Translation

A pseudo-Aristotelian treatise called de pomo et morte incliti principis philosophorum Aristotelis has been printed several times in Europe, the earliest editions being without place or date. This work is a Latin translation of a Hebrew tract bearing the name “The Book of the Apple,” the translator being Manfred, King of Sicily (ob. 1266), or, as Steinschneider suggests, a Jew employed by him. The Hebrew text professes to be a translation from the Arabic made by R. Abraham B. Hisdai, an author who flourished at the end of the thirteenth century. There are MSS. of B. Hisdai's work in the Vatican and at Oxford, and it has been repeatedly printed, first at Venice, 1519. It was republished with a new Latin translation and a copious but irrelevant commentary by J. J. Losius, at Giessen, in 1706.

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Theophrastus - (D.) Gutas (ed., trans.) Theophrastus On First Principles (known as his Metaphysics). Greek Text and Medieval Arabic Translation, Edited and Translated with Introduction, Commentaries and Glossaries, as well as the Medieval Latin Translation, and with an Excursus on Graeco-Arabic Editorial Technique. (Philosophia Antiqua 119.) Pp. xxiv + 506. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Cased, €114, US$169. ISBN: 978-90-04-17903-5.

The Classical Review ◽

10.1017/s0009840x11003040 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 91-93

Author(s):

Anthony Preus

Keyword(s):

First Principles ◽

Latin Translation ◽

Greek Text ◽

Arabic Translation ◽

Medieval Latin

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De Beneficentia: A Homily on Social Action attributed to Basil of Caesarea

Vigiliae Christianae ◽

10.1163/157007212x627875 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 66 (5) ◽

pp. 457-481

Author(s):

Susan R. Holman ◽

Caroline Macé ◽

Brian J. Matz

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Fourteenth Century ◽

Social Action ◽

English Translation ◽

Late Antiquity ◽

Latin Translation ◽

Greek Text ◽

Manuscript Dating ◽

Manuscript Text

Abstract This paper introduces an anonymous work attributed to Basil of Caesarea entitled, De beneficentia, or “On beneficence.” The text is known from one manuscript dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Phillipps 1467 (gr. 63), a collection of genuine and pseudonymous Basilian homilies. Although pseudonymous and extant (as far as we can determine) only in this sole manuscript, in some quoted fragments from the ninth and twelfth centuries, and in a sixteenth-century Latin translation, De beneficentia, shares a number of characteristics common to social homilies preached in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. This paper discusses the Berlin manuscript text in the context of the known fragments, other spurious, dubious, or pseudonymous homilies attributed to Basil, and its attributed relationship to social preaching in Christian late antiquity, and offers a new edition of the Greek text with its first English translation.

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