[TABULA CEBETIS]. IBN MISKAWAYH. LOZANO Y CASELA, Pablo. - Lot 143

[TABULA CEBETIS]. IBN MISKAWAYH. LOZANO Y CASELA, Pablo. Parafrasis arabe de la Tabla de Cebes. [Followed by]. Texto arabe de la parafrasis de la Tabla de Cebes... Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1793. In-4, [3] ff, XL-219-29 pp, engraved vignettes to titles. Contemporary Spanish fawn shagreened basane, ornate smooth spine, red morocco title-piece, gilt roulette framing the boards, red edges (very tired and handled binding, angular lacks, missing headpieces, worm galleries at the end of the volume, unruly quires, freckling, without the plate). First bilingual Spanish-Arabic edition. Arabic paraphrase by the Persian neoplatonic philosopher Ibn Miskawayh (932-1030) of an ancient Greek descriptive poem by Cebes, translated here into Spanish by Pablo Lozano y Casela. Active in Baghdad and Rayy, Ibn Miskawayh served as librarian and secretary to high Bouyid dignitaries, giving him access to vast bodies of Greek and Arabic philosophy. He is best known for his ethical treatise Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq (The Perfecting of Character), in which he synthesizes Greek moral philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonists) with Islamic thought. Stamp of J. de Bustamante. Arquitecto, Guatemala. Palau, 50822. [Philosophy - Arab Neoplatonism].