The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Program in Toledo in 
the Twelfth Century

Burnett, Charles

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“…1138-1143) and, among the second generation of scholars, Gerard of Cremona (1114-1187). 94 Like their Christian counterparts, known as 'mozarabs', who lived under Muslim rule, Jewish scholars were fluent in both Arabic and in the vernacular, and so could prepare a vernacular translation of an Arabic text, which a Christian scholar could then translate into Latin. 95 This two-step process of translation is documented in around 1170 by the English cleric Daniel of Morley, who explained how the vernacular served as the bridge between Arabic and Latin scholarship, and cited as an example his own conversations with 'Galippus', a mozarab scholar and translator who had worked with Gerard of Cremona.…”

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Alfonso X of Castile-León

Kennedy¹

2019

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An author who has taken twenty years to complete her manuscript will have incurred many intellectual debts along the way, and the list that follows records my gratitude to those who have helped and inspired me. At every stage, I have been fortunate to work in well-stocked libraries with friendly, knowledgeable librarians. In Oxford, I would like to thank in particular the staff of the Modern Languages Faculty Library (especially Roger Shilcock), the staff of the Taylorian Library (particularly Jill Hughes, David Thomas, and John Wainwright), and the staff of the Bodleian Library. In Spain I was most grateful for the assistance of librarians in the Archivo Capitular, Seville, the Biblioteca Menéndez y Pelayo, Santander, and the Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona. It was also a pleasure to examine two Alfonsine manuscripts in the Vatican Library. Most codices copied for Alfonso are now in Madrid or in the palace and monastery founded by Philip II at the nearby town of El Escorial. I am grateful to Cristina Guillén, rare books librarian at the Biblioteca Nacional, and Elena Luxán, of the Museo del Libro (now the Museo de la Biblioteca Nacional), for allowing me to study some of the library's most precious manuscripts. Manuel Sánchez Mariana and his small team at the Complutensian University library, the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, kindly brought me the Alfonsine Libros del saber de astrología to examine on numerous mornings. I would also like to extend my warmest thanks to the director of the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Padre José Luis del Valle Merino, and to his colleague Padre Teodoro † for welcoming me and supporting me during my many visits to study the Alfonsine treasures in their collection. The origin of this book is a doctoral thesis supervised by Stephen Parkinson and submitted to the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford, in Hilary Term 1999. The gathering of evidence for the arguments presented here would not have been possible without the generous support of the British Academy (at both doctoral and post-doctoral level), the Trustees of the Lady Allen Scholarship, the Trustees of the de Osma Studentship, the Curators of the Taylor Institution, and the fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford. I am extremely grateful for their largesse, without which I could not have carried out the crucial task of repeatedly examining the manuscripts.

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Alfonso X of Castile-León

Kennedy¹

2019

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“…unayn reports that his hopes for employing the work of both translators were often frustrated by their "bad" quality (Brock 1991). Perhaps most famously, Gerard of Cremona, translating "blindly word for word" (Kunitzsch 1974;Burnett 2001), invested many years in finding better manuscripts of Ptolemy's Almagest and correcting his own mistakes. two versions of his work circulated among readers, offering passages with improved translations and occasionally less arabicized Latin formulations against earlier, more convoluted, faulty expressions (Kunitzsch 1974).…”

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Translation and Transmission of Ancient Scientific Texts

Brentjes

2016

A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

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“…30 That also would explain some of its characteristic faults: as this is a text that had little intrinsic merit other than as a guidepost to other texts, he seems to have wanted to get it done so that he could get on to the really important books. The educational philosophy embedded in it is rather too subtle to be easily observed.…”

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Gerard of Cremona: The Danger of Being Half-Acculturated

Weber¹

2002

Mediev Encount

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This article calls for a nuanced reappraisal of the talents of Gerard of Cremona, the most proli c of the so-called "Toledan Translators" of the twelfth century. By carefully examining his translation of a wide-ranging text of al-Farabi and comparing it with the translation made by Dominicus Gundisalvus a tentative evaluation of his knowledge of speci c content areas, of Islamic culture, and his skill and practices as a translator is put forth as a contribution to the increasingly sophisticated understanding of this important epoch in medieval intellectual history.

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The Coherence of the Arabic-Latin Translation Program in Toledo in the Twelfth Century

Cited by 132 publications

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Alfonso X of Castile-León

Alfonso X of Castile-León

Translation and Transmission of Ancient Scientific Texts

Gerard of Cremona: The Danger of Being Half-Acculturated

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