Article ID: CBB306507163

The Enigma of Arabic and Hebrew Palladius (2017)

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Pormann, Peter E. (Author)
Samuel Barry (Author)
Nicola Carpentieri (Author)
Elaine van Dalen (Author)
Karimullah, Kamran (Author)
Mimura, Taro (Author)
Hammood Obaid (Author)


Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
Volume: 5
Issue: 3
Pages: 252-310


Publication Date: 2017
Edition Details: Part of a Special Issue: Medical Traditions
Language: English

This article reassesses the attribution of the Aphorisms commentary preserved in the Haddad Memorial Library (MS Ḥaddād) to Palladius. Where the evidence for the commentary in Greek sources is virtually non-existent, Arabic testimonia are more numerous. We discuss Arabic fragments in Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī’s Comprehensive Book (al-Kitāb al-Ḥāwī) and Arabic commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. These fragments demonstrate that Palladius wrote a commentary on the Aphorisms. Analysis of MS Ḥaddād, however, reveals that the commentary it preserves cannot be a translation of Palladius’ Greek text. Philological evidence occasions the conclusion that MS Ḥaddād contains an anonymous Arabic Aphorisms commentary written in the early ʿAbbāsid period. We discuss two Hebrew manuscripts that purport to be translations of Palladius’ commentary. Although more work on the Hebrew Palladius is needed, it is clear that the Hebrew commentaries are different translations of the anonymous Aphorisms commentary in MS Ḥaddād.

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Authors & Contributors
McVaugh, Michael Rogers
Freudenthal, Gad
Violet Moller
K. Abou Hershkovitz
Elior, Ofer
Rodríguez-Arribas, Josefina
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine
Arabic language
Translations
Transmission of texts
Time Periods
Medieval
14th century
8th century
Ancient
9th century
16th century
Places
Europe
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Toledo (Spain)
Baghdad (Iraq)
Barcelona (Spain)
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
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