# Simone Van Riet’s Avicenna Latinus critical series begins publishing the medieval Latin

Date: 1968

## The fact

From 1968 the Avicenna Latinus series (Van Riet and successors, later at Brill) issued critical Latin of Shifa books, a completed philological factory. The dated start used here is 1968. [Avicenna](/people/avicenna) did not collate Louvain. Better Latin lets historians separate Gerard, Alpago, and school glosses.

## Context

Critical Latin can undermine pious faculty legend. That is a feature. High confidence on the series as a public scholarly machine.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Avicenna Latinus (Van Riet and successors) — Brill serial (https://brill.com/display/serial/ALAT; Brill).

## Significance

A 1968 critical-Latin series is a philological access path, not a 1150 autograph of Gerard.

A 1968 critical-Latin series is a philological access path, not a 1150 autograph of Gerard.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://brill.com/display/serial/ALAT
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-van-riet-avicenna-latinus-1968