Event Description

The Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford project will host its first workshop on John Greaves’s marginalia. This project (University of Oxford) aims to analyse the Arabic and Persian MSS on astronomical topics held in two Oxford libraries, St John’s College, and the Bodleian. Its focus is notes written on the MSS by the seventeenth-century Oxford scholars who used them, in this case multilingual marginalia and interlinear notes by John Greaves, which will be annotated and digitized.

Introduction, Julia Bray (Oxford)

Greaves’s marginalia and seventeenth-century book culture, Fyza Parviz (Stanford University)

Greaves’s observations and sstronomical instruments reconsidered, Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University / Oxford)

Greaves’s Archimedes: the secrets of textual transmission, Ben Cartlidge (Oxford)

Greaves’s use of zījes from the Islamic World, Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University / Oxford)

Greaves and Golius: reconstructing contact from annotation, Ben Cartlidge (Oxford)

Greaves and languages: Arabic and Persian, Julia Bray (Oxford)

Project digitization efforts, Fyza Parviz (Stanford University)

Closing remarks and next steps, Julia Bray (Oxford)

Friday 4 June 2021, 17:00–21:00 BST

Source: https://www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk/event/john-greavess-marginalia-workshop

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