AUTHORS: Panzeca I.,

WORK PACKAGE: WP4 DamSym

URL: https://iris.unipa.it/handle/10447/640735

Manuscripts, Avicenna, Persian, Arabic

Abstract

This paper will examine the Persian manuscript tradition of three pseudepigraphic works, respectively concerning magic, alchemy and prophecy, originally written in Arabic and attributed to Avicenna. The authenticity of these treatises has been denied by several scholars and, although they are mostly considered spurious or to be authenticated, they nevertheless remain important testimonia for the history of the transmission of the texts. Their translations into Persian are also valuable sources for the reception of Avicenna’s thought and for the perception of it over the centuries.

AUTHORS: Panzeca I.,

WORK PACKAGE: WP4 DamSym

URL: https://iris.unipa.it/handle/10447/640894

Avicenna, Philosophy, Manuscripts, Persian

Abstract

This paper partially outlines the manuscript tradition that preserves the Music section of the only Peripatetic summa written by Avicenna in Persian (Pārsī-darī) , known as Dāniš-nāma-yi ʿAlāʾī (Dāneš-nāme-ye ʿAlāʾī, henceforth DN).

AUTHORS: Panzeca I.,

WORK PACKAGE: WP4 DamSym

URL: https://helvia.uco.es/xmlui/handle/10396/36078

Keywords: Avicenna; Arabic; Persian; Manuscripts; Origin; Destination

Abstract

Avicenna’s œuvre manifested its influence and strength through the activity of exegesis and translation of his texts, as well as through their wide dissemination in terms of copying, transmission, and circulation over the centuries. His ‘minor works’ concerning the origin (mabdaʾ), or the principle of the rational soul, and on its destination (maʿād), the place where it will return after death, are an example of this sophisticated process. This article will focus mainly on the substantial manuscript tradition of these authentic or spurious treatises, both in Arabic and Persian.