| ISBN |
9004464662 (hardcover) |
| 9789004464667 (hardcover) |
| Title |
Plurilingualism in traditional Eurasian scholarship : thinking in many tongues / edited by Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer, Mårten Söderblom Saarela |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023 |
| Physical desc. |
xvi, 484 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Ancient languages and civilizations 3 |
| Note |
CB illustration: page 440, figure 5.4.1 (Ar 3315, f. 1r). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer, and Michele Loporcaro -- Part 1: Language diversity. Introduction / Glenn W. Most -- The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) / Joel S. Baden -- A 5th-century BCE Greek historian discusses the Pelasgians and the origins of the Greek language: Herodotus, Histories / Filippomaria Pontani -- Language arose from spontaneous feelings and reactions to nature: the doctrine of Epicurus (4th century BCE) and Lucretius (1st century BCE) / Filippomaria Pontani -- Language diversity as a result of social interaction: Xunzi’s view on plurilingualism in 3rd-century BCE China / Dagmar Schäfer -- Language Is a collective product of mankind: Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History (1st century BCE) / Filippomaria Pontani -- A 1st-century BCE/CE Greek geographer discusses what a 'barbarian' language is in terms of Homer and the Carians: Strabo, Geography / Filippomaria Pontani -- Plurilingualism in China and Inner Asia in the 12th century CE: 'Khitan reciting poetry' / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Part 2: Etymology. Introduction / Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer, and Michele Loporcaro -- An early post-Vedic treatise on the etymological explanation of words: Yāska, Etymology / Johannes Bronkhorst -- A 4th-century BCE Greek philosophical analysis of the methods and limits of etymology: Plato, Cratylus / Glenn W. Most -- A 1st-century BCE Roman polymath’s explanation of the mysteries of Latin: Varro, On the Latin language / Glenn W. Most and Michele Loporcaro -- A 1st-century CE stoic etymological and allegorical explanation of Greek gods: Cornutus, Compendium of Greek theology / Glenn W. Most -- Zheng Xuan and commentarial etymology (2nd century CE) / Dagmar Schäfer -- Etymology in the most important reference encyclopedia of Late Antiquity (ca. 600 CE): Isidore of Seville, Etymologies / Michele Loporcaro and Glenn W. Most -- Buddhist etymologies from first-millennium India and China: works by Vasubandhu, Sthiramati, and Paramārtha / Roy Tzohar -- An influential Latin dictionary and its etymologies (12th century CE) in the linguistic landscape of medieval Europe: Hugutio of Pisa’s Derivationes / Michele Loporcaro -- Part 3: Lexicography. Introduction / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Lexicality and lexicons from Mesopotamia / Markham J. Geller -- Translating Oriental words into Greek: a papyrus glossary from the 1st century CE / Filippomaria Pontani -- The making of monolingual dictionaries: the prefaces to the Lexica of Hesychius (6th Century CE) and Photius (9th century CE) / Filippomaria Pontani -- A 10th-century CE Byzantine encyclopedia and lexicon: Suda, Letter sigma / Glenn W. Most -- A dictionary of the imperial capital: Shen Qiliang’s Da Qing quanshu (1683) / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Part 4: Translation. Introduction / Dagmar Schäfer and Markham J. Geller -- Translators of Sumerian: the unsung heroes of Babylonian scholarship / Markham J. Geller -- The earliest and most complete story of the translation of the Pentateuch into Greek (2nd century BCE): The Letter of Aristeas / Benjamin G. Wright -- 'Faithful' and 'Unfaithful' translations: the Greco-Latin tradition in Jerome’s Letter to Pammachius (395/396 CE) / Filippomaria Pontani -- A 4th-century CE Buddhist note on Sanskrit-Chinese translation: Dao’an’s preface to the abridgement of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā sūtra / Bill M. Mak -- An 8th-century CE Indian astronomical treatise in Chinese: The nine seizers canon by Qutan Xida / Bill M. Mak -- Two 8th-century CE recensions of Amoghavajra’s Buddhist astral compendium: Treatise on lunar mansions and planets / Bill M. Mak -- Arabic and Arabo-Latin translations of Euclid’s Elements / Sonja Brentjes -- Part 5: Writing systems. Introduction / Dagmar Schäfer, Markham J. Geller, and Glenn W. Most -- A 4th-century BCE Greek philosophical myth about the Egyptian -- Origins of writing: Plato, Phaedrus / Glenn W. Most -- A Buddhist Mahāyāna account of the origin of language: the descent into Laṅkā scripture (Laṅkāvatārasūtra) / Roy Tzohar -- Stories of origin: Ibn al-Nadīm, Kitāb al-Fihrist / Sonja Brentjes -- Inventing or adapting scripts in Inner Asia: the Jin and Yuan histories and the early Manchu veritable records juxtaposed (1340s–1630s) / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- An essay on the use of Chinese and Korean language in late 18th century CE Chosŏn: Yu Tŭkkong, 'Hyang’ŏ pan, Hwaŏ pan' / Mårten Söderblom Saarela. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 3315 |
| Multilingualism -- Eurasia -- History |
| Learning and scholarship -- Eurasia -- History |
| Scholars -- Language |
| Added name(s) |
Most, Glenn W. editor |
| Schäfer, Dagmar editor |
| Söderblom Saarela, Mårten editor |
