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Darrera modificació: 2023-11-15
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Freudenhammer, Thomas, "Lupitus of Barcelona: On the identity of a tenth century scientific translator", Sudhoffs Archiv, 104/2 (2020), 139-151.
- Resum
- 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.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Astronomia i astrologia
- URL
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/48616035
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