Aristotle; Casimir Patraitis ed.

THE ARABIC VERSION OF ARISTOTLE'S METEOROLOGY: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and Greek-Arabic Glossaries [Pensee Arabe et Musulmane XXXIX]

Dar El-Machreq / La Librairie Orientale, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. From the personal library of Joel Kraemer, noted scholar of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy with his signature to FFEP and his pencil annotations throughout. iii, 148 (Arabic); 111 (English). 8vo, light green cloth, black stamped lettering. B/W facsimile plate from Codex Vaticanus Hebraicus. Bit of foxing to the edges, Kraemer's notations in pencil, sound and square otherwise; DJ somewhat tattered, wrapped in mylar. 'The first edition of the Arabic translation of Aristotle's Meteorology was published in Cairo by Professor 'Abdurrahman Badawi in 1961. Dr. Petraitis has now produced a second edition of the work, using not only the Istanbul manuscript employed by Professor Badawi, but a Vatican manuscript written in Hebrew characters and an Oxford manuscript of Ibn Rushd's medium commentary, also written in Hebrew characters. In his introduction he deals with the history of Arabic Aristotelian editions, with the translator of his text, Yabya in al-Bitriq, and with the translations attributed to Yahy and to his father. He adds an Arabic-Greek and a Greek-Arabic glosary and, in addition to his textual apparatus, he includes a considerable number of notes.' (Review in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies). VERY GOOD / Good. Item #506049

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