Article ID: CBB797796898

Lupitus of Barcelona: On the identity of a tenth century scientific translator (2020)

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In one of his letters of the year 984, Gerbert of Aurillac, the later Pope Sylvester II, asks a certain Lupitus of Barcelona for his translation of a book on astronomy. This translator has so far been identified with Seniofred Llobet, who was by that time the archdeacon of Barcelona cathedral. A thorough examination of the letter as well as of other contemporary sources, however, precludes the archdeacon from this identification. The translator Lupitus must rather have been a Mozarabic clergyman who immigrated from Muslim Spain, from where he probably brought with him the Arabic original for his translation. This paper intends to throw some light on a hitherto poorly studied stage of the transmission process that brought the astrolabe from Al-Andalus to Europe.

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Authors & Contributors
Rodríguez-Arribas, Josefina
Abuzayed, Mohamed
al-Asmar, Salih
Albert, Carl-Philipp
al-Bizri, Nadir
Bagheri, Mohammad
Journals
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Institut Millás Vallicrosa d'Història de la Ciència Àrab
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Translations
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Astrolabes
Astronomy
Manuscripts
Instruments, astronomical
People
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zajjaj
'Adud al-Dawlah, Abu Shuja' Fanni Khusraw
al-Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
al-Quhi, Abu Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam
al-Sufi, Abu al-Husain ‘Abd al-Rahman
al-Ṭūsī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad Naṣīr al-Dīn
Time Periods
10th century
Medieval
14th century
11th century
15th century
17th century
Places
Spain
Iran
Baghdad (Iraq)
France
North Africa
Naples (Italy)
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
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