De Animalibus. Michael Scot's Arabic-Latin Translation, Volume 3 Books XV-XIX: Generation of Animals
With a Greek Index to De Generatione Animalium by H.J. Drossaart Lulofs
Biographical note
Aafke M.I. van Oppenraaij studied Classics and Arabic at the University of Amsterdam. She is preparing several editions for the Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus Project since 1976. Recent publication: 'Quelques particularités de la méthode de traduction de Michel Scot', in: Rencontres de Cultures dans la Philosophie Médiévale: Traductions et Traducteurs de l'Antiquité tardive au XIVe Siècle, Louvain-la-Neuve/Cassino, 1990.
Readership
Students of medieval Latin, medieval science and natural history, and of Arabic and medieval Latin lexicology.
Reviews
'...excellent...'
L.-J. Bataillon, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 1994.
'Ce livre excellent...par un esprit qui n'est pas médiocre, proprement fascinante.'
Pierre Pellegrin, Revue Philisophique, 1994.
'...I am grateful that this important source has been made available in an exemplary manner...'
Gerhard Endress, ISIS, 1995.
'The appearance of the first of van Oppenraaij's careful and meticulous editions is most welcome and will provide a useful addition to the source materials for the study of medieval Latin Aristotelianism. It is the hope of those working on the commentary tradition of the zoology that the two other volumes will not be long in appearing.'
Michael W. Tkacz, Review of Metaphysics, 1995.
'...vorbildlicher kritischer Edition...'
Herbert Eisenstein, Zeitschrift der Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1995.
'Voice en tout une édition indispensable à toute bibliothèque de textes latins du Moyen Age.'
Baudouin Van Den Abeele, Bulletin Codicologique, 1995.
'On ne peut que saluer ce travail magnifique, qui fait honneur à la grande érudition, à la fois classique et orientaliste, de son auteur.'
Aubert Martin, Latomus, 1995.
L.-J. Bataillon, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques, 1994.
'Ce livre excellent...par un esprit qui n'est pas médiocre, proprement fascinante.'
Pierre Pellegrin, Revue Philisophique, 1994.
'...I am grateful that this important source has been made available in an exemplary manner...'
Gerhard Endress, ISIS, 1995.
'The appearance of the first of van Oppenraaij's careful and meticulous editions is most welcome and will provide a useful addition to the source materials for the study of medieval Latin Aristotelianism. It is the hope of those working on the commentary tradition of the zoology that the two other volumes will not be long in appearing.'
Michael W. Tkacz, Review of Metaphysics, 1995.
'...vorbildlicher kritischer Edition...'
Herbert Eisenstein, Zeitschrift der Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1995.
'Voice en tout une édition indispensable à toute bibliothèque de textes latins du Moyen Age.'
Baudouin Van Den Abeele, Bulletin Codicologique, 1995.
'On ne peut que saluer ce travail magnifique, qui fait honneur à la grande érudition, à la fois classique et orientaliste, de son auteur.'
Aubert Martin, Latomus, 1995.
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