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Aristotle: De Animalibus Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation: Part Two Books XI-XIV Parts of Animals
199813843Brill Academic Publisher 1998-09-03. hardcover. Good. 6x1x10. No dust jacket. Bound in black cloth this scholarly work has a binding error the boards don't seem to have been glued properly completely readable. Boards are dusty shaken due to the binding error. Latin Arabic and English languages. Aristotle's De Animalibus has been a very important source of zoological knowledge both for the ancient Greeks and for the medieval Arabs and Europeans. The work has twice been translated into Latin once direct from the Greek by William of Moerbeke and once by Michael Scot from an existing Arabic translation. Of these Scot's translation is the oldest. The De Animalibus is composed of three sections: 'History of Animals' 10 books 'Parts of Animals' 4 books and 'Generation of Animals' 5 books. The present volume contains the first critical edition of Scot's translation of the second section. The edition of the third section is already available 1992 the first section is in preparation. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 Brill Academic Publisher hardcover
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