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De Machometo
''De Machometo'' ('On Muḥammad') is a brief anonymous Latin tract on the life of Muḥammad from a Christian point of view. It begins in the reign of Pope Boniface IV (608–615). Its account is cobbled together from a variety of sources, including the fifth dialogue of Petrus Alphonsi's ''Dialogi in quibus impiae Judaeorum confutantur'', the Corozan legend and possibly the ''Libellus in partibus transmarinis de Machometi fallaciis'' from Vincent of Beauvais's '' Speculum historiale''. The composite account is very similar to the account of Muḥammad found in the '' Golden Legend''. It is known from at least four manuscripts: * Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, Acc. 2011/5, ff. 193r–194r (pp. 379–381), from the late 14th century *Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.1.17, ff. 79rb–79rv (incomplete), from *London, British Library, MS Royal 13.E.IX, ff. 93r–94r, from 1395–1425 *London, British Library, MS Sloane 289, ff. 92v–95v, from the mid-15th century ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtenay Compendium, P
Courtenay may refer to: Places Australia * Courtenay, Western Australia Canada * Courtenay, British Columbia, a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island * Courtenay River, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia France * Courtenay, Isère, a ''commune'' in the Isère ''département'' * Courtenay, Loiret, a ''commune'' in the Loiret ''département'' New Zealand * Courtenay, New Zealand, a locality in the Selwyn District * Courtenay (New Zealand electorate), a former electorate in Canterbury, based on the locality of the same name * Courtenay River, the short-lived European name of the Waimakariri River United States * Courtenay, North Dakota, a city in Stutsman County * Courtenay, Florida, an unincorporated community in Brevard County People * Courtenay (surname) Given name Courtenay is a given name variant of Courtney. Notable people with the name include: Male * Courtenay Bartholomew (born 1931), Irish physician and scientist * Courtenay Bennett (1855–1973), British d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Of Beauvais
Vincent of Beauvais ( la, Vincentius Bellovacensis or ''Vincentius Burgundus''; c. 1264) was a Dominican friar at the Cistercian monastery of Royaumont Abbey, France. He is known mostly for his ''Speculum Maius'' (''Great mirror''), a major work of compilation that was widely read in the Middle Ages. Often retroactively described as an encyclopedia or as a ''florilegium'', his text exists as a core example of brief compendiums produced in medieval Europe. Biography The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown, and not much detail has surfaced concerning his career. Conjectures place him first in the house of the Dominicans at Paris between 1215 and 1220, and later at the Dominican monastery founded by Louis IX of France at Beauvais in Picardy. It is more certain, however, that he held the post of "reader" at the monastery of Royaumont on the Oise, not far from Paris, also founded by Louis IX, between 1228 and 1235. Around the late 1230s, Vincent had begun working on the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tractatus Quomodo Machometus Decepit Saracenos Secundum Diuersas Opiniones
''Tractatus'' is Latin for "treatise". It may refer to: * ''Tractatus de amore'' by Andreas Capellanus * ''Tractatus Astrologico Magicus'', also known as the'' Aldaraia'' and the ''Book of Soyga'', a 16th-century Latin treatise on magic * ''Tractatus coislinianus'', an ancient manuscript on comedy in the tradition of Aristotle *''Tractatus Eboracenses'' (Tractates of York), dealing with the relationship between kings and the Catholic Church, c. 1100 * Tractatus of Glanvill, the ''Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae'' (Treatise on the laws and customs of the Kingdom of England), the book of authority on English common law, written c. 1188 and attributed to Ranulf de Glanvill * ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'', a philosophical work by Ludwig Wittgenstein * ''Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii'' (Treatise on Saint Patrick's Purgatory), a Latin text of c. 1180–84 *''Tractatus de Sphaera'', or ''De sphaera mundi'', the basic elements of astronomy written by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critical Edition
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in dates from the earliest writing in cuneiform, impressed on clay, for example, to multiple unpublished versions of a 21st-century author's work. Historically, scribes who were paid to copy documents may have been literate, but many were simply copyists, mimicking the shapes of letters without necessarily understanding what they meant. This means that unintentional alterations were common when copying manuscripts by hand. Intentional alterations may have been made as well, for example, the censoring of printed work for political, religious or cultural reasons. The objective of the textual critic's work is to provide a better understanding of the creation and historical transmission of the text and its variants. This understanding may lead to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Of Tripoli
William of Tripoli ( 1254–1273) was a Dominican friar active as a Christian missionary, missionary and papal nuncio in the Holy Land. He wrote two works about Islam, towards which he displayed an unusually Irenicism, irenic attitude for his time. Life There is little surviving information from which to reconstruct William's biography, and much of the information that is available is not credible. He was born in the first third of the thirteenth century, most likely in the 1220s. The Latin name associated with his works, ''Guillelmus Tripolitanus'' (William the Tripolitan), suggests that he was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli in the County of Tripoli. He was most likely of French or Italian descent. He probably learned Arabic from a relatively early age. It is unknown when William entered the Dominican Order. In his works, he refers to himself as "of the priory in Acre of the Order of Preachers". He may have first joined that of Tripoli before joining that of Akko, Acre. Followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
