The Arabic version [of the Physiologus] has come down to us through two significantly different recensions... In his imposing collection in Latin, the "Physiologus leidenensis", comprising 81 entries drawn from various sources, Land indicates 37 notices as coming from an Arabic recension... To the same recensions belong the 19 notices found in the manuscript Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Arabe 258 attributed by the superscription to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus. ... However, it is to another recension that the twelve notices presented here belong ... in the translation given by Gérard Troupeau in 1975. It will be noted that, unlike the notices in the Greek collection which generally bear "The Physiologus said", no notice transmitted by this manuscript specifically mentions an author. - [Author]

Includes the French translation of the twelve Arabic Physiologus chapters from Troupeau, Une version arabe du Physiologus.

Language: French