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translation-history

22 notes carry this tag — 12 claims, 3 questions, 6 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the shape I already had a name for
  essay drafting 2026-08-01 · transmission-of-knowledge, etymology, chess, translation-history, pattern-watch

Everything else

• Does a primary source confirm the two-hop Mamluk card-suit renaming mechanism (coins → polo-sticks → batons)?
  capture promoted 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• Does a primary source confirm the alfil-to-bishop renaming mechanism (mitre in English, jester's cap in French)?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• A 1627 English dictionary, quoted by Murray, describes the chess 'Bishop' as 'cloven in the head like a miter,' textually attested from 1499
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, translation-history, lexicography
• Murray's 1913 primary account offers no shape-based ('jester's cap') mechanism for the French chess-piece name 'fou,' and rejects a rival phonetic derivation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, translation-history, verification
• Portuguese chess terminology (19th-c. attestation in Murray) recorded 'mitra' as an alternate name for the bishop-equivalent piece
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, translation-history, lexicography
• The 10th/11th-century critic al-Yamani argued Kalila wa-Dimna's 'Indian book' framing was Ibn al-Muqaffa's own invention, not a translation
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, ibn-al-muqaffa
• Scholarship (via de Blois) treats Borzuya's Indian mission and authorship of the lost Pahlavi translation as historically plausible, not proven
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, francois-de-blois
• Two distinct Syriac translations of Kalila wa-Dimna survive independently — one from the lost Pahlavi, one from the Arabic
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, syriac
• Do Tier 1–2 scholarly sources (Encyclopaedia Iranica; de Blois 1990) confirm the Borzuya → Kalila wa-Dimna transmission chain, its dates, and the immortality-herb legend?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-26 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, ibn-al-muqaffa
• The chess piece now called 'bishop' was renamed in each receiving culture for what its shape locally resembled, not for the elephant it originally depicted
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · history-of-games, chess, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• Mamluk playing-card suits were renamed twice in succession along their transmission route, each time for local resemblance: Chinese coins misread as polo-sticks, then polo-sticks misread as batons
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
• Does 'knowledge crosses continents by getting renamed for what it locally resembles' recur across the vault's transmission chains — enough for an MOC?
  capture promoted 2026-07-21 · transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history, etymology, pattern-watch, moc-candidate
• Lattice ('gelosia') multiplication's paper trail runs India (12th-c. Lilavati commentary) → Islamic Maghreb (Ibn al-Banna, late 13th c.) → Renaissance Italy
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, calculating-instruments, transmission-of-knowledge, islamic-golden-age, translation-history
• Lattice multiplication was renamed for a window grille in each culture that received it: Arabic 'shabakh' and Italian 'gelosia' both mean the same lattice grating
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history, lattice-multiplication
• Does 'knowledge crosses continents by getting renamed for what it locally resembles' recur across the vault's transmission chains — enough for an MOC?
  question open 2026-07-11 · transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history, etymology, pattern-watch, moc-candidate
• Do Tier 1–2 sources confirm that Ibn al-Banna's Talkhīṣ contains lattice multiplication, and that the 12th-c. Lilavati-commentary 'Kapat-sandhi' is the same method?
  question open 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, lattice-multiplication, islamic-golden-age, translation-history, verification
• Borzuya's book mistaken for an immortality herb: how the Panchatantra became Kalila wa Dimna
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-09 · hop, translation-history, sasanian-persia, transmission-of-texts, fables
• Napier's bones runs on 'gelosia' — a lattice-multiplication method whose India-to-Arab-Maghreb-to-Italy journey mirrors the vault's Kalila wa-Dimna transmission chain
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, history-of-mathematics, calculating-instruments, transmission-of-knowledge, islamic-golden-age
• In the traditional account, the physician Borzuya was sent to India to find a plant that revives the dead — which turned out to be a book, the Panchatantra
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, transmission-of-texts, fables, kalila-wa-dimna
• Kalila wa-Dimna descends from Borzuya's lost mid-6th-century (c. 550–570 CE) Pahlavi Panchatantra, which Ibn al-Muqaffa rendered into Arabic in the 8th century
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-09 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, transmission-of-texts, fables, kalila-wa-dimna
• Do Tier 1–2 scholarly sources (Encyclopaedia Iranica; de Blois 1990) confirm the Borzuya → Kalila wa-Dimna transmission chain, its dates, and the immortality-herb legend?
  question open 2026-07-09 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, verification