| LC control no. | n 81022270 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Secretum secretorum |
| Variant(s) | Secreta secretorum Sirr al-asrār Kitāb al-siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah Siyāsah fī tadbīr al-riyāsah Secré de secrez Liber Aristotelis de secreto secretorum De regimine principium vel regum vel dominorum et aliorum nominum Secret book of secrets De secreto secretorum |
| Other standard no. | 185087783 |
| Found in | The Milemete treatise and companion Secretum secretorum: p. 51-54 (Secretum secretorum was a popular, widely disseminated text in the Middle Ages; it was believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was translated from the Arabic Kitab Sirr al-asrar by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century) Summa oculi sacerdotum, [between 1340 and 1375], Robbins Collection, University of California, Berkeley: fol. 106v (Explicit liber Aristotelis de secreto secretorum sive de regimine principium vel regum vel dominorum et aliorum nominum) Wikipedia, viewed February 8, 2023: (Secretum secretorum; the Secretum or Secreta Secretorum (from Latin: "The Secret of Secrets"), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar; a pseudo-Aristotelian treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, astrology alchemy, magic, and medicine; the earliest extant editions claim to be based on a 9th-century Arabic translation of a Syriac translation of a Greek original; modern scholarship considers it a 10th-century Arabic work later translated into Latin; the first, partial translation into Latin was completed c. 1120 by the converso John of Seville; it survives in about 150 copies; the second translation, this one of the whole work, was done at Antioch c. 1232 by the canon Philip ofTripoli for Bishop Guy of Tripoli; it is preserved in more than 350 copies) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretum_Secretorum> |
| Not found in | Encyc. brit., 1972, c1977; Harper's dict. of class. lit. & antiq., c1923; Oxford class. dict., 1970. |
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