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The Arabic-Latin Translators – Natural Science and Philosophy CHARLES BURNETT List of Publications Books, and articles over 100 pages long Articles and pamphlets, arranged thematically, and in chronological order within each topic The Arabic-Latin Translators – Natural Science and Philosophy – Astronomy and Astrology - Medicine and Psychology – Magic and Divination – Arithmetic and Geometry – Anglo- Norman Science and Learning in the Twelfth Century – Peter Abelard and the French Schools – Music – Contacts between the West and the Far East – Miscellaneous – Reviews (selection) List of editions of Latin texts in books and articles above (Please note that some diacritical markings are missing) Books, and articles over 100 pages long: 1. Hermann of Carinthia, De essentiis, critical edition, translation and commentary, Leiden, 1982, 385 pp. (reviews in Speculum, 1984, pp. 911–3, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 28, 1985, p. 685, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 20, 1985, pp. 287–90, Deutsches Archiv, 41, 1985, p. 255, Rivista di storia della filosofia, 2, 1984, pp. 349–51, Bulletin de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 14, 1989, p. 695). 2. ‘A Checklist of the Manuscripts Containing Writings of Peter Abelard and Heloise and Other Works Closely Associated with Abelard and his School’, Revue d’histoire des textes, 14–15, 1984–5, pp. 183–302 (with David Luscombe and Julia Barrow). 3. Pseudo-Bede, De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione: a Treatise on the Universe and the Soul, edition, translation and commentary, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 10, London, 1985. 88 pp. (reviews in Isis, 77, 1986, pp. 182–3, Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, 81, 1986, p. 742, Ambix, 33, 1986, p. 155, Journal of the History of Astronomy, 19, 1988, pp. 62–3, Schedi medievali, 11, 1986, pp. 415–6). 4. Adelard of Bath: An English Scientist and Arabist of the Early Twelfth Century, London, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 14, London, 1987, 208 pp. (reviews in Nuncius, 3, 1988, pp. 345–7, Annals of Science, 46, 1989, pp. 311–3, Journal of the History of Astronomy, 20, 1989, pp. 138–9, Centaurus, 33, pp. 256–8, English Historical Review, 91, pp. 689–90, Archives internationales d’histoire des sciences, 41, 1991, pp. 115–7). 5. The Second Sense: Studies in Hearing and Musical Judgement from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, edited by C. Burnett, M. Fend and P. M Gouk, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 22, London, 1991. 247 pp. (reviews in Annals of Science, 52, 1995, pp. 303–5, Music and Letters, 96, pp. 102–3, Sudhoffs Archiv, 78, 1994, pp. 244–5, Nuncius, 7, 1992, pp. 225–7, Journal of the Music Library Association, Philadelphia, June 1995, pp. 1297–9). 6. ‘Zadanfarrukh al-Andarzaghar on Anniversary Horoscopes’ (with A. al-Hamdi), Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch–islamischen Wissenschaften, 7, 1991/2, pp. 294–398. 7. Glosses and Commentaries on Aristotelian Logical Texts: the Syriac, Arabic and Medieval Latin Traditions, ed. C. Burnett, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 23, London, 1993. 192 pp. (reviews in Scriptorium, 1994, pp. 39–40, Nuncius, 8, 1993, pp. 785–6, Al-Qantara, 15, 1994, pp. 526–8). 8. Constantine the African and ‘Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Magusi: the Pantegni and Related Texts, ed. C. Burnett and D. Jacquart, Leiden, 1994, pp. ix + 364. 9. Abu Ma‘sar, The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, together with the Medieval Latin translation of Adelard of Bath (with Michio Yano and Keiji Yamamoto), Leiden, 1994. 170 pp. (reviews in Medical History, 39, 1995, pp. 396–7, Isis, 87, 1990, p. 541, Sudhoffs Archiv, 80, 1996, pp. 118–9, Speculum, 1996, pp. 384–5, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 26, 1995, pp. 168–70, Gesnerus, 53, 1996, p. 129, Euphrosyne, 24, 1996, pp. 483–4, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch–islamischen Wissenschaften, 10, 1995/6, pp. 347–8). 10–13. Edition of four volumes of collected articles of M.-T. d'Alverny for Variorum reprints: Etudes sur le symbolisme de la Sagesse et sur l'iconographie, 1993, La connaissance de l’Islam dans l’Occident médiéval, 1994,La transmission des textes philosophiques et scientifiques au moyen âge, 1994, and Pensée médiévale en Occident, 1995. 14. Al-Kindi, Iudicia, The Two Latin Versions, London, 1993 (privately printed). 200 pp. 15. Jesuit Plays on Japan and English Recusancy (with Masahiro Takenaka), Renaissance Monographs 21, The Renaissance Institute: Tokyo, Sophia University, 1995. 148 pp. §16. ‘Algorismi vel helcep decentior est diligentia: the Arithmetic of Adelard of Bath and his Circle’, inMathematische Probleme im Mittelalter: Der lateinische und arabische Sprachbereich, ed. M. Folkerts, Wiesbaden, 1996, pp. 221–331. 17. Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds, Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS557, Aldershot, 1996. 382 pp. 18. The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of Santalla, edited by C. Burnett and D. Pingree, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 26, London, 1997. 299 pp. 19. The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (The Panizzi Lectures, 1996), London, 1997. 110 pp. 20. Abu Ma‘shar, The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, translated by C. Burnett with historical and technical annotations by C. Burnett, G. Tobyn, G. Cornelius and V. Wells, ARHAT publications, 1997, 58 pp. 21. Hildegard of Bingen: the Context of Her Thought and Art, edited by C. Burnett and P. Dronke, Warburg Institute Colloquia 4, London, 1998. 230 pp. 22. Adelard of Bath, Conversations with His Nephew: On the Same and the Different, Questions on Natural Science, and On Birds, edited and translated by Charles Burnett with the Collaboration of Italo Ronca, Pedro Mantas España and Baudouin van den Abeele, Cambridge, 1998. lii + 287 pp. 23. Scientific Weather Forecasting in the Middle Ages: The Writings of Al-Kindi (with Gerrit Bos), London, 2000. 580 pp. 24. Islam and the Italian Renaissance, edited by C. Burnett and A. Contadini, Warburg Institute Colloquia 6, London, 1999. viii + 239 pp. 25. Abu Ma‘sar on Historical Astrology, The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions), ed. and transl. K. Yamamoto and C. Burnett, 2 vols, Leiden, 2000. xxviii + 620 pp/ and xxxiv + 578 pp. 26. Al-Qabisi (Alcabitius): The Introduction to Astrology. Editions of the Arabic and Latin texts, and an English translation, eds C. Burnett, K. Yamamoto and M. Yano, Warburg Institute Studies and Texts 2, 2004. 27. Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, eds C. Burnett, J. P. Hogendijk, K. Plofker, and M. Yano, Leiden, 2004, 890 pp. 28. Abbreviatio Petri Abaelardi Expositionis in Hexameron, ed. C. Burnett, in Petri Abaelardi Opera Theologica V, Turnhout, 2004, pp. 113-50 29. Britannia Latina: Latin in the Culture of Great Britain from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, eds C. Burnett and N. Mann, Warburg Institute Colloquia 8, London and Turin 2005, 240 pp. 30. Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qatan, eds G. Bos, C. Burnett and T. Langermann, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 95, part 5, 2005, 130 pp. 31. Hermes Trismegistus, Astrologica et divinatoria, eds G. Bos, C. Burnett, T. Charmasson, P. Kunitzsch, F. Lelli and P. Lucentini, Turnhout 2001, 454 pp. 32. Magic and the Classical Tradition, eds C. Burnett and W. F. Ryan, Warburg Colloquia 7, London and Turin 2006, 237 pp.. 33. Scientia in Margine: Études sur les Marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du moyen âge à la Renaissance, eds D. Jacquart and C. Burnett, Geneva 2005, 414 pp. 34. ‘Sefer ha-Middot: a Mid-Twelfth-Century Text on Arithmetic and Geometry Attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra’,Aleph 6, 2006 (with Tony Lévy), pp. 57-238 35. Ibn Baklarish’s Book of Simples: Medical Recipes between Three Faiths, ed. Charles Burnett, London 2008, 164 pp. 36. Continuities and Disruptions between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, eds Charles Burnett, José Meirinhos and Jacqueline Hamesse, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2008, 181 pp. 37. The Word in Medieval Logic, Theology and Psychology, eds Tetsuro Shimizu and Charles Burnett, Turnhout, 2009, 440 pp. 38. Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Farnham 2009, 420 pp. 39. Raymond de Marseille,Opera omnia: Traité d’astrolabe, Liber cursuum planetarum, eds M.-T. d’Alverny (†), C. Burnett and E. Poulle, Paris, 2009. 39a. Ancient and Medieval Alchemy, eds Charles Burnett and Bink Hallum, Ambix 56, March, 2009, 83 pp. 39b. The Winding Courses of the Stars: Essays in Ancient Astrology, eds. Charles Burnett and Dorian Giesler Greenbaum, Culture and Cosmos, vol. 11, nos 1 and 2, 2007, 311 pp. 39c. Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West, eds Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Florence, 2008, 289 pp. 39d. Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Farnham, 2010, 380 pp. 39e. Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes, eds Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Farnham, 2011. See: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754669562 Articles and pamphlets arranged thematically, and in chronological order within each topic: (articles included in Arabic into Latin, no. 38 above, are marked with ‡) The Arabic-Latin Translators 40. ‘A Group of Arabic-Latin Translators Working in Northern Spain in the mid–twelfth Century’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, year 1977, pp. 62–108. 41. ‘Arabic into Latin in Twelfth-Century Spain : the Works of Hermann of Carinthia’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 13, 1978, pp. 100–34. 42. ‘Some Comments on the Translating of Works from Arabic into Latin in the Mid-Twelfth Century’, inOrientalische Kultur und europäisches Mittelalter, ed. A. Zimmerman, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 17, Berlin, 1985, pp. 161–71. 43. ‘Literal Translation and Intelligent Adaptation amongst the Arabic-Latin Translators of the First Half of the Twelfth Century’, in La diffusione delle scienze islamiche nel Medio Evo Europeo, ed.
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