Translations, Annotated Bibliography
Ralph Abraham, February, 2007


  • Briffault, 1965. The Troubadours

  • Busard, H.L.L., 1968.
    The Translation of the Elements of Euclid from the Arabic into Latin by Hermann of Carinthia.
    UCSC Sci: QA31 E8782

  • Busard, H.L.L., 1977.
    The Translation of the Elements of Euclid from the Arabic into Latin by Hermann of Carinthia, Books VII-XII.
    UCSC Sci: QA3 A48 v. 84
    Notes: Completes Busard, 1968.

  • Cahill, Thomas , 1995
    How the Irish Saved Civilisation: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe.
    McH: DA930.5 .C34 1995
    Notes: p. 193, irish exiles saved latin literature

  • The Cambridge Medieval History, v. 4, part 2
    The Byzantine Empire: Governement, Church, and Civilization
    UCSC McH: D117 C3 1959 v.4:2
    Notes: p. 265: Jundishapur, Edessa, Leo the Mathematician.

  • Garsoian, Nina G, Thomas F Mathews, Robert W Thomson, eds.
    East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period, 1982
    UCSC McH: DS57 E18 1982
    Notes: Pagan cults in early Christian Syria.
    p. 117: Map of Antioch, Damascus, Edessa, Nisibis, Harran, Dura Europa, Palmyra.

  • Klibansky, R.
    The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition: Plato's Parmenides in the Middle Ages
    UCSC McH: B395 K5 1981
    Notes:
    Reprint of Klibansky 1939 with new preface and four new chapters and including Plato's Parmenides, Plato, Arabic, Byzantium, Ficino, transmission of ancient Greek.

  • Laiou, Angelika E. Byzantium: a World Civilization.
    UCSC McH: DF521 .B937 1992.
    Notes:
    • p. 20 educational system
    • p. 23 al-mamun 813 AD
    • p. 25 hellenic infusion of islam, 9th C
    • p. 24 translations

  • Lindberg, David C. 1978
    Science in the Middle Ages
    UCSC Sci: Q124.97 S35
    Notes:
    • p. 52 Transmission of Greek and Arabic learning to the West
    • p. 58 Library of al-Hakkam
    • p. 62 Adelard's translations, astrology
    • p. 69 Jewish translators

  • Reynolds, L.D., and N. G. Wilson,
    Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, 2nd ed., 1968/1974
    RHA Z40 R4 1974
    Notes:
    • p. 48 Nisibis, Edessa
    • p. 51 Byzantine scholarship, university revived in 863 AD
    • p. 60 Michael Psellus, 1018-1078
    • p. 71 Map of western Europe monastic centre
    • p. 98 Euclid, Ptolemy in Paris ca 1000
    • p. 105 Pseudo-Dionysius, John Scotus
    • p. 119 olutati invites hrysoloras to lorence, 1397
    • p. 130 Early Greek studies of Petrarch and Boccaccio, 1360
    • p. 133 Gemistus, Bessarion 1400-1472, to Ferrara in 1438
      p. 138 Ficino's Latin Plato printed 1485 -- 1025 copies
      Plato in Greek publ 1513; Aldine Press
    • p. 158 Scaliger and Casaubon, 16th c

  • Rosenthal, Franz, 1955 German, 1975 English.
    The Classical Heritage in Islam.
    UCSC McH: DS36.82 G7 C5513
    Notes:
    • On translations from Greek to Arabic
    • p. 206 Euclid, Nicomachus
    • p. 240 Influence of the stars

  • Rubenstein, Richard E.
    Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages.
    New York: Harcourt, 2003.
    UCSC McH B734 R79 2003
    Notes:
    • p. 4, Baghdad, Cairo, Toledo, and Cordoba
    • p. 13, toledo, lisbon, 1100
    • p. 15, al-kindi, 9th c.
    • p. 16, toledo, lisbon, segovia, cordoba
    • p. 17, archbishop raymund of toledo
    • p. 18, domingo gundisalvo, ibn daud, translators
    • p. 19, list of translators
    • p. 20, sicily
    • p. 21, frederick II
    • p. 22, spain, italy, provence
    • ch 2, pp. 47-87: excellent brief account of andalusia

  • Rev. by Ralph, 18 February 2007.