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A new source for Dominicus Gundissalinus's account of the science of the stars?

Pages 361-374 | Received 01 Mar 1990, Published online: 23 Aug 2006

  • For a full list of references to ‘Dominicus Colarensis archidiaconus’ in Toledan charters see d'Alverny M.T. Les traductions à deux interprètes: d'arabe en langue vernaculaire et de langue vernaculaire en latin Traduction et traducteurs au moyen âge, Actes du colloque international du CNRS … les 26–28 mai 1986 Paris 1989 193 206 (pp. 196–7).
  • See Jolivet J. The Arabic Inheritance A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy Dronke P. Cambridge 1988 113 148 (pp. 134–44).
  • Throughout this article I refer to the page and line numbers of De divisione philosophiae, edited by L. Baur, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelaters, IV.2–3 (Münster, 1903). Baur's edition of the section on the science of the stars is reproduced with some readings from an important thirteenth-century manuscript in the Appendix, Text III below. Baur discusses some of the texts that draw on Gundissalinus's work at the end of his monumental study. See also Hugonnard-Roche H. La Classification des sciences de Gundissalinus Études sur Avicenne Jolivet Rashed R. Paris 1984 41 75
  • For his method, see Jolivet The Arabic Inheritance A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy Dronke P. Cambridge 1988 193 206 and Daniel Callus, ‘The Introduction of Aristotelian Learning to Oxford’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 29 (1943), 229–81 (p. 251 on the De anima). For a discussion of the sources of the chapter on geometry in De divisione philosophiae, see P. M. J. E. Tummers, ‘Some notes on the Geometry Chapter of Dominicus Gundissalinus’, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, 34 (1984), 19–24.
  • Fredborg , K.M. 1974 . Petrus Helias on Rhetoric . Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen-aĝe grec et latin , 13 : 31 – 41 . and The Latin Rhetorical Commentaries by Thierry of Chartres, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Studies and Texts 84 (Toronto, 1988), pp. 14–20.
  • Gundissalinus's consistent use of this terminology is noted by Alonso M. Alonso in Domingo Gundisalvo De scientiis Madrid and Granada 1954 177 178
  • Baur . 1984 . “ La Classification des sciences de Gundissalinus ” . In Études sur Avicenne Edited by: Jolivet and Rashed , R. 259 – 259 . Paris Es dürfte wohl auch keinem Zweifel unterliegen, dass die mageren Bemerkungen über species (activa und contemplativa), officium and finis auf arabischem Boden entstanden sind.
  • For the terms ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ see Schramm M. Theoretische und praktische Disziplin bei al-Fārābī Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 1986 3 1 55 In fact al-Fārābī does not divide the science of the stars into theoretical and practical parts, and consequently does not regard astrology as being the practical branch of astronomy (Schramm, pp. 34–5). However, one may quote as typical of mid-twelfth century thought a passage from Raymond of Marseilles's Liber iudiciorum (MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 57, fol. 137v): Quemadmodum medicina dividitur in theoricam et practicam, sic astrorum doctrina in duo dividitur—scilicet in scienciam et opus. Dicimus namque scientiam astrologiam … astronomia vero ipsum opus intelligitur. One may note that Raymond uses the terms astrologia and astronomia in the same sense as Gundissalinus.
  • Al-Fārābī . 1953 . Catálogo de las ciencias Edited by: Palencia , A. Gonzalez . Madrid This edition includes the Arabic text, a Spanish translation, the Latin text published by Guilielmus Camerarius in 1638, and the Medieval Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona; see Arabic, pp. 66–7, Spanish translation, pp. 46–7.
  • Gundisalvo , Domingo . 1954 . De scientiis Edited by: Alonso , Alonso . 99 – 103 . Madrid and Granada Alonso shows that the Latin text published by Camerarius has the status of a manuscript of Gundissalinus's version. This version, in turn, appears to be a revision of Gerard of Cremona's more literal translation of the Arabic text.
  • See James M.R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 1912 316 319
  • Ars extrinsecus is the term Thierry, following ‘the ancient rhetoricians’, uses for describing and defining the headings which must be considered at the beginning of a text; see Fredborg The Latin Rhetorical Commentaries by Thierry of Chartres Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Studies and Texts 84 Toronto 1988 50.18 50.20 For circumstantiae see ibidem, p. 52.72–6.
  • See Haskins C.H. Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science , second edition Cambridge, Massachusetts 1927 114 117
  • See Sangin M.A.F. Corpus codicum astrologorum Graecorum Brussels 1936 XII 205 210
  • See Burnett The Contents and Affiliation of the Scientific Manuscripts Written at, or Brought to, Chartres in the Time of John of Salisbury The World of John of Salisbury Wilks Michael Oxford 1984 127 160 (pp. 135–6 and 140).
  • Tummers . 1984 . Some notes on the Geometry Chapter of Dominicus Gundissalinus . Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences , 34 : 19 – 24 . casts doubt on the evidence for a mid-century dating given by Baur (footnote 3), p. 163.
  • See Philosophica disciplina Lafleur Claude Montreal and Paris 1988 lines 248–314 in Quatre introductions à la philosophie au XIIIe siècle
  • Fredborg , K.M. 1988 . The Latin Rhetorical Commentaries by Thierry of Chartres , Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Studies and Texts 84 16 – 17 . Toronto Gundissalinus's section on rhetoric is copied from Thierry's introduction to his commentary on the De inventione.
  • See Jeauneau E. Note sur l'Ecole de Chartres Studi medievali 1964 5 821 865 series 3

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