SC - Andalusian Cookbook now webbed

[david friedman]

At 7:58 PM -0400 9/5/00, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

>A quick question, though, for Cariadoc and Thomas, probably between the
>two of you I can get some sense out of this...
>
>If this is a new[ish] translation of the same text Huici Miranda worked
>on, in a reputedly inexpert fashion, what new information was Rudolf
>Grewe hoping to include in the translation _he_ was working on prior to
>his death? Is it likely Grewe was unaware of Perry's recent work on this
>mansuscript, or did he consider it somehow faulty? Grewe had stated that
>he found Miranda's work seriously flawed, so had the Perry translation
>and notes not already been published, I could understand the need for
>such a project.


I'm pretty sure that Grewe and Perry knew each other; I believe there 
was  talk of Perry completing some of the work left unfinished by 
Grewe when he died. Perry was working from both the Arabic original 
and an English translation of Huici Miranda's Spanish that I had 
organized. My guess is that he did a less thorough job than he would 
have in a published scholarly version--at least, I know he has 
corrections he now wants to make, although he hasn't gotten around to 
sending them to me.

Also, I think the Arabic version Perry was working from was Miranda's 
published version of the original, not actual photocopies of the 
manuscript, although I'm not sure. Grewe may have been planning to 
work from several surviving manuscripts of the book--I don't know if 
there is more than one--and improve on Miranda's reading of the 
Arabic.
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David Friedman
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