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Significant Instances of Paraphrasis in Sabuncuoğlu’s Illustrated Turkish Translation of al-Zahrāwī’s Arabic Surgical Masterpiece Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn

Significant Instances of Paraphrasis in Sabuncuoğlu’s Illustrated Turkish Translation of... Around the year 1000, Muslim physician Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī composed a voluminous medical encyclopedia, Al-Taṣrīf li-man ʿajiza ʿan al-tāʾlīf, the thirtieth treatise (Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn) of which was subsequently translated into many languages, for embodying a ground-breaking illustrated work on the surgical knowledge and instruments of its time. In Anatolia circa 1465, the Ottoman physician Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu produced his own surgical magnum opus Cerrāḥiyyetü’l-ḫāniyye by rendering this work into Turkish and replicating its instrumental drawings, and adding to it new chapters and supplementary miniatures. In this study, we both confirm the genuineness of the added chapters by comparison with Leclerc’s French translation of Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn, which similarly appears to contain additional parts, and investigate the nature of the core text annexed from Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn. In producing the translated portion of his work, Sabuncuoğlu remained for the most part within the bounds of metaphrasis, i.e., literal translation, though with both significant and insignificant instances of paraphrasis based on omission or interpolation. The relatively insignificant instances typical of most medieval works of translation include contributions of adjectival, adverbial or nominal specification, further elaboration and non-essential addition in one or a few words. The longer instances include professional anecdotes interpolated occasionally either with some demarcating verba dicendi or through a seamless transition, and missing lines that appear to have been omitted or to be absent due to their unavailability in the source text(s). By presenting a number of typically exemplifying excerpts, we attempted to specify these divergences of Cerrāḥiyyetü’l-ḫāniyye from Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn, to which the literature so far has very generally referred as “the contribution of Sabuncuoğlu”. Moreover, we found that the second set of paraphrastic divergences, to which we attributed special significance, provided clues as to the source text(s) of Cerrāḥiyyetü’l-ḫāniyye, by which we propose a connection with the contemporaneous Huntington manuscript. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

Significant Instances of Paraphrasis in Sabuncuoğlu’s Illustrated Turkish Translation of al-Zahrāwī’s Arabic Surgical Masterpiece Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn

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Significant Instances of Paraphrasis in Sabuncuoğlu’s Illustrated Turkish Translation of al-Zahrāwī’s Arabic Surgical Masterpiece Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn

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Around the year 1000, Muslim physician Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī composed a voluminous medical encyclopedia, Al-Taṣrīf li-man ʿajiza ʿan al-tāʾlīf, the thirtieth treatise (Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn) of which was subsequently translated into many languages, for embodying a ground-breaking illustrated work on the surgical knowledge and instruments of its time. In Anatolia circa 1465, the Ottoman...
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Around the year 1000, Muslim physician Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī composed a voluminous medical encyclopedia, Al-Taṣrīf li-man ʿajiza ʿan al-tāʾlīf, the thirtieth treatise (Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn) of which was subsequently translated into many languages, for embodying a ground-breaking illustrated work on the surgical knowledge and instruments of its time. In Anatolia circa 1465, the Ottoman physician Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu produced his own surgical magnum opus Cerrāḥiyyetü’l-ḫāniyye by rendering this work into Turkish and replicating its instrumental drawings, and adding to it new chapters and supplementary miniatures. In this study, we both confirm the genuineness of the added chapters by comparison with Leclerc’s French translation of Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn, which similarly appears to contain additional parts, and investigate the nature of the core text annexed from Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn. In producing the translated portion of his work, Sabuncuoğlu remained for the most part within the bounds of metaphrasis, i.e., literal translation, though with both significant and insignificant instances of paraphrasis based on omission or interpolation. The relatively insignificant instances typical of most medieval works of translation include contributions of adjectival, adverbial or nominal specification, further elaboration and non-essential addition in one or a few words. The longer instances include professional anecdotes interpolated occasionally either with some demarcating verba dicendi or through a seamless transition, and missing lines that appear to have been omitted or to be absent due to their unavailability in the source text(s). By presenting a number of typically exemplifying excerpts, we attempted to specify these divergences of Cerrāḥiyyetü’l-ḫāniyye from Al-Maqāla al-thalāthūn, to which the literature so far has very generally referred as “the contribution of Sabuncuoğlu”. Moreover, we found that the second set of paraphrastic divergences, to which we attributed special significance, provided clues as to the source text(s) of Cerrāḥiyyetü’l-ḫāniyye, by which we propose a connection with the contemporaneous Huntington manuscript.

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2020

Keywords: al-Zahrāwī; Islamic medicine; medieval surgery; MS. Huntington 156; Sabuncuoğlu; surgical instruments; translation

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