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Flavius Mithridates 〔Flavio Mitridate, Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada, Raimondo da Moncada, Raimondo Moncada, Raimundo Moncada, Raymond Moncada, Raimundus Mithridates Romanus, Flavius Wilhelmus Raimundus Mithridates, etc.〕〔According to the 1906 ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' (article ''Flavius (Raimundus) Mithridates'') his Jewish name is not known; but many modern works give it as Samuel ben Nissim Abulfaraj.〕 was an Italian Jewish humanist scholar, who flourished at Rome in the second half of the 15th century. He is said to be from Sicily,〔http://www.pico-kabbalah.eu/〕 and was a Christian convert, known for preaching impressively if tendentiously.〔(): he is there called a ‘clever charlatan’.〕 He also had a knowledge of Arabic.〔(This PDF ), p.83 places him at Rome 1477-1483, and as possibly the only scholar there with a working knowledge of Arabic. He worked on translating the ''Qur'an'' for Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, who died in 1482.〕 About 1486 he lived at Fratta, near Perugia, in the house of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, whom he instructed in Aramaic. He is now best known as the translator for Pico della Mirandola〔The ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' says for Pope Sixtus IV; thirty-eight fragments in Vatican MSS. Nos. 189-191.〕 of the ''Bibliotheca Cabalistica'', a large〔( 3500 pages of manuscript )〕 compilation of cabbalistic literature.〔E.g. (this PDF ), p.49.〕 Modern scholarly reconsideration of this work have found it somewhat erratic and containing interpolations. He also translated into Latin Maimonides' epistle on resurrection, Levi ben Gershon's commentary on the Song of Solomon, and Judah's "Ma'amar ha-Hawayah ha-Heḳḳeshiyyah," or "Sermo de Generatione Syllogismorum Simplicium et Compositorum in Omni Figura."〔He seems not to have known that the last-named work was really written in Latin by Aegidius Romanus, and that Judah was only the translator of it.〕 Flavius was the author of "De Tropis Hebraicis," an original work in Latin on Hebrew accents, which was praised by Sebastian Münster and Imbonatus. Some scholars have thought, but without sufficient reason, that Flavius is identical with the cabalist Johanan Aleman ben Isaac〔1435-1504, i.e. Yohanan Aliman, Yohanan Isaac ben Allemanno.〕 a contemporary and associate of Pico della Mirandola, who taught him from the late 1480s. == References == *Doukas, Recherches, pp. 46, 69, 72; *Joseph Perles, in R. E. J. xii. 249; *idem, Beiträge, pp. 178–196; *Brüll's Jahrb. iii. 196; *Siegmund Salfeld, ''Das Hohelied'', p. 117; *Moritz Steinschneider, in Monatsschrift, 1898, p. 262; *idem, Hebr. Uebers. p. 492; *Hermann Vogelstein and Paul Rieger, ''Geschichte der Juden in Rom'', ii. 75. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flavius Mithridates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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