Ptolemy-el-Garib

Ptolemy-el-Garib (Arabic, more correctly al-gharīb, "Ptolemy the foreigner," explained as meaning "Ptolemy the unknown") (fl. c. 300 AD)^[1] was a Hellenistic pinacographer, probably of the Peripatetic school, who wrote a Life of Aristotle notable for its catalog of Aristotle's works. This work survives in an Arabic manuscript in Istanbul.^[2] A critical edition, with French translation was published by Marwan Rashed.^[3]

^ Tarán, Leonardo; Gutas, Dimitri. Aristotle Poetics: Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries. Leiden: Brill (2012), p. 16.
^ Gottschalk 1990 reported that an edition was in preparation by Marian Plezia and Józef Bielawski. Plezia died in 1996, Bielawski in 1997. A transcription of the Ms. Ayasofia 4833 fol. 10b-11a, 14b-18a (with the Catalogue of Aristotle's works) is now available in: Christel Hein, Definition und Einteilung der Philosophie. Von der spätantiken Einleitungsliteratur zur arabischen Enzyklopädie, New York: Peter Lang, 1985, pp. 415-439).
^ Ptolémée "al Gharib", Épître à Gallus sur la vie, le testament et les écrits d’Aristote, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2021.

[1] Tarán, Leonardo; Gutas, Dimitri. Aristotle Poetics: Editio Maior of the Greek Text with Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries. Leiden: Brill (2012), p. 16.

[2] Gottschalk 1990 reported that an edition was in preparation by Marian Plezia and Józef Bielawski. Plezia died in 1996, Bielawski in 1997. A transcription of the Ms. Ayasofia 4833 fol. 10b-11a, 14b-18a (with the Catalogue of Aristotle's works) is now available in: Christel Hein, Definition und Einteilung der Philosophie. Von der spätantiken Einleitungsliteratur zur arabischen Enzyklopädie, New York: Peter Lang, 1985, pp. 415-439).

[3] Ptolémée "al Gharib", Épître à Gallus sur la vie, le testament et les écrits d’Aristote, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2021.

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