Talk:Epistola prudenti viro

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... that the nominal writer and addressee of the apocryphal Epistola prudenti viro lived centuries apart?

Source: Burnett, Charles F. S. (1984), "An Apocryphal Letter from the Arabic Philosopher al-Kindi to Theodore, Frederick II's Astrologer, Concerning Gog and Magog, the Enclosed Nations, and the Scourge of the Mongols", Viator, 15: 151–167, doi:10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301438: "The attribution to al-Kindi is patently false, in that Ja'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi died soon after A.D. 870. ... The recipient of the letter, on the contrary, is a person who might well have been alive when the letter was written."

ALT1: ... that the 13th-century letter Epistola prudenti viro originated the idea that a fox helped Gog and Magog escape from beyond Gates of Alexander? Source: Burnett, Charles F. S.; Gautier-Dalché, Patrick (1991), "Attitudes Towards the Mongols in Medieval Literature: The XXII Kings of Gog and Magog from the Court of Frederick II to Jean de Mandeville", Viator, 22: 162: "the story of the fox has not been associated with the escape of the Enclosed Nations elsewhere". I have struck this because, although I do not think the authors are very clear on this point, it appears that they believe the Mirabilia mundi is earlier and includes the same story.
ALT2: ... that the 9th-century Muslim polymath al-Kindi did not write the Letter to a Prudent Man that bears his name, but his supposed addressee, Theodore of Antioch, may have? Source: See above for al-Kindi. For Theodore, see Veselov, Fedor N. (2021), "Omens of the Apocalypse: The First Rus' Encounter with the Mongols through the Prism of the Medieval Mind", in Alexander V. Maiorov; Roman Hautala (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations, Routledge, p. 23: "Taking into account the identity of the author of the letter, who most probably was the addressee himself."
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