Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Directorium humanae vitae
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century.
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Directorium humane vite
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Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Directorium vitae humanae
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tDirectorium vitae humanae
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Johannis de Capua Directorium vitae humanae
Johannis de Capua Directorium vitae humanae
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Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Parabola antiquorum sapientum
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tParabola antiquorum sapientum
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Parabolae antiquorum sapientum
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tParabolae antiquorum sapientum
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Parabole antiquorum sapientum
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tParabole antiquorum sapientum
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Kelila et Dimna
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tKelila et Dimna
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Liber parabolarum antiquorum sapientum nationum mundi
Liber parabolarum antiquorum sapientum nationum mundi
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Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Liber Kelilae et Dimnae
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tLiber Kelilae et Dimnae
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century. Liber Kelile et Dimne
4000 $aGiovanni,$cda Capua,$dactive 13th century.$tLiber Kelile et Dimne
Liber Kelilae et Dimnae
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Liber Kelile et Dimne
430 0$aLiber Kelile et Dimne
Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. Latin
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Panchatantra. Latin
430 0$aPanchatantra.$lLatin
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[Use for the 13th-century Latin version of Kalīlah wa-Dimnah, translated by Giovanni da Capua from a Hebrew version. Use with language qualifier for direct translations from this version.]
[Make an added access point: Fables of Bidpai. Latin.]
Giovanni, da Capua. Directorium humane vite, alias, Parabole antiquoru[m] sapientu[m], approximately 1489:
page [3] (Verbum Iohannis de Capua ... Cu[m] plura diuersarum scie[n]tiarum genera esse prospexeri[m] in lingua fundata Hebraica: non parue vtilitatis in eruditionem Christianorum consortij, vt in sacris scripturis et diuinis, moralibus at[que] medicinalibus: ipsa ex praedicta lingua in latinam reducere meus animus adspirauit ... Hic est liber parabolarum antiquorum sapientum nationum mundi. Et vocatur liber Kelile et Dimne, et prius quidem in lingua fuerat Indorum translatus. Inde in linguam translatus Persarum. Postea vero reduxerunt illu[m] Arabes in linguam suam, vltimo exinde ad linguam fuit redactus Hebraica[m]. Nunc aut[em] nostri propositi est, ipsum in linguam fundare Latinam) page [163] (Explicit liber parabolaru[m] antiquo[rum] sapientum)
Giovanni, da Capua. Johannis de Capua Directorium vitae humanae, alias Parabola antiquorum sapientum, 1889, via Gallica, November 30, 2018:
title page (version latine du Livre de Kalilah et Dimnah)
Zonta, Mauro. "Giovanni da Capua," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 55, 2001, via Treccani website, October 24, 2018
(the only certain information about the life and activity of Giovanni da Capua is found in the prefaces and colophons of his translations, which almost exclusively refer to persons present at the papal court in Rome during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), so he was presumably active at that time and place and not, as stated by most modern bibliographers, between 1263 and 1268; his translations include a Latin version, under the title Directorium humanae vitae, alias Parabola antiquorum sapientum, of the Indian fable collection Pañcatantra, or rather of an Arabic elaboration of it, titled Kalilawa-Dimna; Giovanni's translation is based on a Hebrew version composed, perhaps in the 12th century, by a certain Rabbi Joel; first published in Strasbourg between 1484 and 1493)
Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA), November 7, 2017
(under Giovanni da Capua: Directorium humanae vitae; date: between 1262 and 1278; translation from Hebrew; early edition Strasbourg, Johann Prüss, approximately 1489)
Geissler, Friedmar. "Die Inkunabeln des Directorium vitae humanae," in Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3. Folge, v. 1 (1965), pages 7-47:
page 7 (Directorium vitae humana alias Parabolae antiquorum sapientum; derives from Old Indic Pancatantra via Persian and Arabic; the Arabic version was the source of a Hebrew version by a Rabbi Joël (12th century), which was the source of the Latin version by the convert Johannes von Capua; Johannes' version is the direct or indirect source of all Western, Central and North European manuscripts, incunabula and editions of the 16th-18th century)