Article ID: CBB000470603

The Reception of Aristotle's History of Animals in the Marginalia of Some Latin Manuscripts of Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation (2003)

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Oppenraay, Aaflee M. I. Van (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 8
Pages: 386--403


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on The Reception of Aristotle's Physical Works in the Middle Ages
Language: English

A considerable number of the thirteenth and early fourteenth-century manuscripts of Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin translation of Aristotle's De animalibus (ca. 1215) display a system of guiding marginal glosses. These glosses are usually added by a later hand with respect to the hand that had written the text. The manuscripts were not only annotated for personal use, but also so as to allow for a better use in compiling commentaries, encyclopaedias and compendia. We can say that the marginalia form the main, if not only, key to our understanding today of the use that readers made of the text. Apart from offering a mere explanation of the contents, we can see that their interest in the text was chiefly related to biblical exegesis and to scientific and medical knowledge. The approach to the text was often allegorical and moralizing in character. Some remarks reflect the reader's own experience and associations in relation to the text.

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Authors & Contributors
Di Cesare, Michelina
Tony Scott
Franci, Elisabetta
Voskoboynikov, Oleg
Widemann, Eilhard
White, Cynthia
Concepts
Manuscripts
Mathematics
Zoology
Natural history
Abacus
Latin language
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
14th century
15th century
12th century
Places
Italy
Europe
Florence (Italy)
Pisa (Italy)
England
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