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GRAECO-ARABICA CHRISTIANA7in the Latin translation by Dominicus Gundissalinus, in collaborationwith Johannes Hispanus, perhaps between ca. 1150 and 1175; it hasthe title Liber celi et mundi and is attributed to Ibn Sinأ¤.28Finally, the section on the four elements29 is a compilation fromdifferent sources, of which one main source might be identified as thePlacita philosophorum by Aetius, which was translated from Greekinto Arabic by Qus!أ¤ ibn Lأ¼qأ¤ (c. his Christian translator is referred to by Ibn al-Fa41 in his Kitأ¤bTafsir sittat ayyأ¤m al-&aliqa, his Explanation of the Hexaemeron,31which is a free rendering of the nine Homilies by Basilius the Great(died 379 A.D.)32 and of the supplements by Basilius’ brother Gregorof Nyssa. 3 Ibn al-Fadl made his translation in the year 105234 andadded comments introduced by tlأ¤’iya li-lbn al-Fadl or by qأ¤la al-mufassir, one of which,35 on the proof of the spherical shape of theearth from the changing visibility of the fixed stars, is based onAristotle, De caelo II 14 (297b31ff.)36 and one, on the planets and28 The Latin text is edited with English translation by Oliver Gutman, Pseudo-Avicenna, Liber Celi et mundi, A Critical Edition with Introduction (Leiden: Brill,2003). Ibn al-Fadl’s version in his Manfaca corresponds to the [3 version of the Latinmanuscripts. Compare the folowing, al-ManfaCa ms. Beirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale541, 67.19-68.4 with ed. Gutman 60.9—62.7. = part of a paraphrase of Aristotle, Decaelo 1 5; al-ManfaCa ms. Beirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale 541, 68.6—69.19 with ed. Gut-man 14 (Quod natura celi est preter quattuor naturas, et quod est corpus simplex)—24.2 (naturalis) = part of a paraphrase of Aristotle, De caelo 1 2; al-ManfaCa ms. eirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale 541, 69.21—71.2 (bi-nأ¤rin) with ed. Gutman 222,4 (quidixerunt)—224.17 (ignee); al-ManfaCa 71.2—7 (wa-gairu dأ¤lika min al-agsأ¤m) with ed.Gutman 230.1 (postquam Stelle revolvuntur), 230.7 (et alia) = part of a paraphrase ofAristotle, De caelo II 7; al-Manfa’a ms. Beirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale 541, 71.7-8 withed. Gutman 236.3—4; al-ManfaCa ms. Beirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale 541, 71.8—10 withed. Gutman 262. (not literally) = part of a discussion of Aristotle, De caelo II 8. Ibnal-Fadl adds (77.10—11) a quotation from the holy fathers” (al-أ„bd al-qiddisأ¼n).29 A1-Manfaca ms. Beirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale 541, 71.12—79.12. The text dif-fers from the chapter De generatione quattuor elementorum et quod opus fuit eis inHunayn’s Liber celi et mundi (ed. Gutman, 266—75).30 Arabic translation by Qus!أ¤ ibn Lأ¼qأ¤, ed. by H. Daiber, Aetius Arabus (Wies-baden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980), book I, 2—3.31 Mentioned by Graf, CGAL, II, 56, no. 6.32 Greek text in Jacques Paul Migne, Patrologia graeca, Lutetiae Parisiorum, 29,4-208.33 Greek text in Migne, Patrologia graeca 44, 61-124.34 see al-Magriq 7 (1904), 678,15f.35 Reproduced from ms. Beirut, Bibliothأ©que Orientale 479 (18th c.) in al-Ma’riq7 (1904), 678.20-679.10.36 Ihe chapter on the spherical shape of the earth in the Liber celi et mundi (ed. utman, 181-189) is different.