Daiber II Ms. 43
収録内容
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Cover and Preliminary leaves.
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[2] [2086] fol. 2v - 166v
Barhebraeus (= Gregorius Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Ibri غريغوريوس أبو الفرج ابن العبري ): Kitab al-Ithiqun كتاب الإيثيقون = Ethikon. Barhebraeus (died A.D. 1286), Ethikon was originally written in Syriac. This Syriac version was first edited in 1898 by P. Bedjan: Ethicon, seu Moralia Gregorii Barhebraei (Paris and Leipzig). A new edition of Memra I with English translation by G.B. Teule appeared in 1993 in the Series Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium [Lovanii] no. 534.535 (= Scriptores syri 218.219). - The book is a work on ethics which is heavily based on Ghazzali's الغزالي Ihya' ulum al-din إحياء علوم الدين ; → Baumstark 315f. and Teule (Corpus no. 535) pp. 112ff. According to the colophon of our Ms. (fol. 166v), it was translated into Arabic on behalf (bi-rasm برسم ) of the deacon (shammas شماس ) Safar Ibn Maqdisi Mansur سفر بن مقدسي منصور (on him → CGAL IV 15) at the beginning of Adhar 1909 (Seleucid era) /1591. Therefore, the attribution of the translation to Yuhanna Ibn al-Jarir al-Shami يوحنا بن الجرير الشامي (end of the 17th century; → CGAL II 275; 278; 281; 283) must be wrong. The available sources mention as translator of Barhebraeus' Ethikon also Daniel Ibn al-Khattab دانيال بن الخطاب (born A.D. 1327); s. CGAL II 281f. and 283f. According to Jean-Maurice Fiey (Bibliographie de Bar Hebraeus, in: Parole de l'Orient 13, Kaslik/Liban 1986, pp. 279-312) p. 292, however, the translation attributed to Daniel Ibn al-Khattab is in fact by Da'ud al-Himsi داوود الحمصي (died 1500?). Teule (Corpus no. 535, p. XIVf.) attributes this translation to Daniel of Mardin from the14th century and assumes at least three different Arabic translations. A comparison shows the identity of our version with that of two mss. in Oxford which is anonymous and classified by Teule as "translation B". Our Ms. was translated in 1591 on behalf of Safar Ibn Maqdisi Mansur; as the colophon mentions this year as date of the copy and as copyist Ubayd Allah Gregorius, who copied the text "on behalf of the bishop of Karkar كركر ", - we can conclude that the copyist is also the translator and that the Ms. is an autograph. Confirmation of this may be the fact that the version contains single sentences in Syriac which are not translated. The bishop of Karkar (perhaps a district of Baghdad; → Yaqut, Mu'jam al-buldan, ed. F. Wüstenfeld IV, Leipzig 1869, p. 262, 7) may have ordered the translation and the deacon of Aleppo, Safar Ibn Maqdisi Mansur, may have delegated it to Ubayd Allah Gregorius.
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Terminal leaves and Back cover.