The Warburg Institute is joining with Nino Aragno Editore of Turin to publish a new series in a new format based on the successful paperback series Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts.

The new series will replace Studies of the Warburg Institute and, eventually, Surveys and Texts. The sub-series Codices Boethiani will continue to be published in the original Surveys and Texts format to match the first volume. Volume 43 will be the last one published in the Studies of the Warburg Institute series.

 

WARBURG INSTITUTE - STUDIES AND TEXTS 1

AVICENNA'S DE ANIMA IN THE LATIN WEST
The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul 1160– 1300
by Dag Nikolaus Hasse

In the twelfth century the Book on the Soul by the philosopher Avicenna was translated from Arabic into Latin. It had an immense success among scholastic writers and deeply influenced the structure and content of many psychological works of the Middle Ages. The reception of Avicenna's book is the story of cultural contact at an impressively high intellectual level.

The present volume investigates this successful reception using two approaches. The first is chronological, tracing the stages by which Avicenna's work was accepted and adapted by Latin scholars. The second is doctrinal, analysing the fortunes of key doctrines. The sense of the original Arabic text of Avicenna is kept in mind throughout and the degree to which his original Latin interpreters succeeded in conveying it is evaluated.

CONTENTS

Approaches to Psychology:

1. Dominicus Gundissalinus; 2. John Blund; 3. Michael Scot; 4. Anonymous (MS. Vat. lat. 175): Dubitationes circa animam; 5. Anonymous (Gauthier) and Anonymous (Callus); 6. Roland of Cremona; 7. William of Auvergne; 8. Jean de la Rochelle; 9. Summa Fratris Alexandri; 10. Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis; 11. Albertus Magnus; 12. Thomas Aquinas; 13. The later thirteenth century.

Doctrines:

1. The Flying Man; 2. Shellfish and Nerves; 3. The Theory of Vision; 4. Estimation and `Intentions'; 5. Prophecy; 6. The Intellect.

With Index locorum, Bibliography and Index

ISBN 0 85481 125 7 ISSN 1471– 5841
c. 320 pp. Price: £32.00

 

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WARBURG INSTITUTE - STUDIES AND TEXTS 3

AZARIAH DE' ROSSI OBSERVATIONS ON THE SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT:
A Sixteenth-Century Jew’s Critique of the Vulgate
by Joanna Weinberg

Shortly before his death in 1577, the Mantuan Jewish scholar Azariah de’ Rossi wrote a challenging and provocative treatise in Italian. Addressing a Christian readership at a time when the authenticity and authority of the Vulgate had been called into question, de’ Rossi presented critical readings of specific verses and phrases in the New Testament, particularly the Aramaisms, clarifying and emending the Vulgate on the basis of the ancient Syriac version which had recently been printed (Vienna, 1555). Few Western scholars had any familiarity with Syriac; this learned Jew’s contribution to New Testament studies thus appears all the more remarkable. De’ Rossi’s work was commissioned by Giacomo Boncompagni, the son of Pope Gregory XIII, and dedicated to the cardinal Santa Severina, Giulio Antonio Sanotoro.

This first critical edition of the two autograph manuscripts of the work includes an English translation and annotations.

ISBN 0 85481 133 8 2005 116 pages Price: £20.00

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