The Hebrew-into-Latin Maimonides: A critical edition of the Dux neutrorum

这个项目的总体目的是提出一个关键版本的Dux neutroum，拉丁语翻译摩西迈蒙尼德的困惑指南。这部著作是最有影响力的犹太哲学和神学著作之一。《指南》的拉丁文版本跨越了文化和宗教的边界，从世纪起对拉丁语世界产生了巨大的影响。同时，《指南》也是世纪从阿拉伯文到希伯来文再到拉丁文的翻译运动的杰出典范。在12世纪和13世纪，将哲学著作翻译成拉丁文的运动的主要成果之一是发展了一个特定的哲学术语，作为反映中世纪思想家的工具。 这个拉丁文版本是今天传送的十三个手稿，从来没有被编辑过。世纪以来，Dux neutrum的评论版一直是科学界的公开渴望。由于缺乏可靠的文本，对理解迈蒙尼德在拉丁作家中的接受提出了几个解释问题。 《指南》最初于1180年至1191年间以犹太-阿拉伯语写成，曾两次被翻译成希伯来语。在上半年的第13世纪，拉丁美洲版本出现。既没有关于拉丁文翻译者身份的信息，也没有关于其生产时间和地点的信息。关于它的地理起源，学者们提出了不同的假设：弗雷德里克二世的宫廷，法国南部，巴黎和加泰罗尼亚。 该项目将根据四项任务进行结构化设计：a）首次对Dux Neutrorum III进行批判性编辑; B）将询问与希伯来文的关系; c）将调查Dux Neutrorum在文艺复兴时期的接受情况; d）将提供文本的数字版本。 该项目可以在过去八年取得的实质性初步成果的基础上更进一步。PI对Dux neutrorum的拉丁手稿传统进行了调查，特别是第一部分和第二部分。在整理的基础上，重新构建了手稿内部的关系。Dux neutrum I的评论版已经完成，而Dux neutrum II的评论版目前正在进行中。有了第三部分的版本，《中子公爵》的批判版就完整了。 该项目的特点是跨学科和多语言的方法，它提供了条件，以完成第一次彻底研究迈蒙尼德的拉丁接受的基础上，一个可靠的文本。这种方法旨在将Dux neutrum与其希伯来语来源联系起来。该项目将与正在特拉维夫大学进行的《指南》希伯来文版评论版项目密切合作，共同推进。

The general purpose of this project is to present a critical edition of the Dux neutrorum, the Latin translation of Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. This work counts among the most influential Jewish philosophical and theological texts. Crossing cultural and religious borders, the Latin version of the Guide had a tremendous impact on the Latin speaking world from the 13th century onwards. At the same time, the Guide is an outstanding example of the translation movement from Arabic into Hebrew into Latin in the 12th and 13th century. One of the major outcomes of the translation movement of philosophical works into Latin in the 12th- and 13th-century has been the development of a specific philosophical terminology that served as an instrument for the reflection of medieval thinkers. This Latin version is today transmitted by thirteen manuscripts and has never been edited before. For more than a century, the critical edition of the Dux neutrorum has been an open desideratum of the scientific community. The absence of a reliable text raises several interpretative problems for the understanding of Maimonides’ reception among Latin authors. Originally composed in Judeo-Arabic between 1180 and 1191, the Guide was translated into Hebrew twice. During the first half of the 13th century, a Latin version appeared. There neither is information on the identity of the Latin translator nor on the time and place of its production. Concerning its geographical origin, scholars formulated different assumptions: the court of Frederick II, Southern France, Paris and Catalonia. The project will be structured according to four tasks: a) The Dux neutrorum III will be critically edited for the first time; b) The relation with the Hebrew text will be inquired; c) The Dux Neutrorum’s reception in the Renaissance will be investigated; d) A digital version of the text will be made available. The project can build on substantial preliminary results achieved over the past eight years. Investigations into the Latin manuscript tradition of the Dux neutrorum, focused especially on part I and part II, have been conducted by the PI. On the basis of the collation, the relations within the manuscripts have been reconstructed. The critical edition of Dux neutrorum I has been completed, while the critical edition of Dux neutrorum II is currently in progress. With the edition of Part III, the critical edition of the Dux neutrorum would be complete. The project is characterized by an interdisciplinary and multi-linguistic approach, which provides the conditions to complete for the first time a thorough study of Maimonides’ Latin reception based on a philologically reliable text. This approach aims at contextualizing the Dux neutrorum in relation with its Hebrew source. The project will advance in strict collaboration with the on-going project on the critical edition of the Guide’s Hebrew version held at the Tel Aviv University.