Hugo of Santalla

Hugo of Santalla [Hugh of Santalla or Sanctalla, Hugo Sanctelliensis.] was a significant translator of the first part of the twelfth century. From Arabic originals, he produced Latin translations of texts on alchemy, astronomy, astrology and geomancy.

He is thought to have been a Spanish priest, working in Tarazona. [ [http://libro.uca.edu/ics/ics8.htm Chapter 8: Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages ] ] Michael, bishop of Tarazona was a patron.

Works attributed to him are translations of Alfraganus [ [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/selden/selden-b.html] Bodleian MS.] Haly, the "Liber de secretis naturae" of Apollonius of Tyana [ [http://www.tecnopublish.com/HermesLatinus/bibl_medievale.htm Bibliografia Medievale ] ] , "De Spatula" on divination [ [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/cav3b6nts.htm Confessio Amantis, Notes ] ] , and the "Tabula Smaragdina" [ [http://www.ritmanlibrary.nl/c/p/pub/on_pub/pat/pat_man_C.html J.R. Ritman Library - Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica ] ] . His "Liber Aristotilis" was an anthology of material with Greek and Persian origins, none of it now attributed to Aristotle.

ee also

*Latin translations of the 12th century

References

*"The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of Santalla" (1997) by Charles Burnett, David Pingree
*"Commentary on tables of Alcoarismi, tr. Hugo of Santalla": edited by E. Millás (Madrid 1963).
*C. H. Haskins, "The Translations of Hugo Sanctelliensis", Romanic Review, II (1911)

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