Author
edited by Caroline Macé, Jost Gippert
Publication Date
2021
Publication Place
Turnhout, Beligum -
Brepols
Subject
Bestiaires - Histoire et critique
Type
Book
Language
ara,chu,ell,eng,fra,gez,hye,kat,lat,syr
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
661
Library
University of Heidelberg
Library Asset ID
978-2-503-58975-6
Record ID
69337965
Date
2021
Sample Text
"The Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, and Old Slavonic. Throughout its transformations and adaptations, the Physiologus has never lost its attraction. The present volume offers an introduction to the significance of the Greek text, a new examination of its manuscript tradition, and a completely revised state of the art for each of the ancient translations. Two chapters of the Physiologus, on the pelican and on the panther, are edited in Greek and in each translation. These editions are accompanied by a new English rendering of the edited texts as well as short interpretative essays concerning the two animals. The volume affords new insights into this fascinating book's diffusion, transmission, and reception over the centuries, from its composition at the beginning of the third century CE in Alexandria to the end of the Middle Ages, and across all regions of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West, Egypt and Ethiopia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Slavia orthodoxa."--Back cover
Bibliyografik Not
Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Multilingual Physiologus. - Turnhout, Beligum : Brepols, 2021
Dipnotlar
Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-616) and indexes
Toplam başlık serisi
Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia ; 84 : research on the inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity
İllüstrasyonlar
illustrations (some color), facsimiles
Yerel URL (Üniversite Kütüphanesi)
full text
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Macé, Caroline [HerausgeberIn], Gippert, Jost [HerausgeberIn]
Yazı Dili
English text, with selections in Ancient Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Church Slavic, Ethiopic, French, Georgian, Latin, and Syriac, with parallel English translations from the Ancient Greek, and parallel English translations from the Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Latin, Old Slavonic, and Syriac translations from the original Ancient Greek
