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Mark of Toledo

مرقس الطليطليّ

Notable figure d. c. 1216 · Source: Teresa Witcombe, Mark of Toledo's Liber Alchorani and its reception in medieval Toledo, in C. Burnett and P. Mantas-España (eds), Mark of Toledo (UCOPress, 2022), pp. 21–28 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Marc de Tolède

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Second Latin version of the Qur'an (1210), word for word

Biography

A cleric of Toledo cathedral and a physician, found in its documents from 1193; his father was «a Castilian». He read and wrote Arabic fluently, so the masters and students where he studied medicine asked him to translate from it, and he put treatises of Galen into Latin, one from Hunayn's version. Archbishop Rodrigo and Archdeacon Maurice commissioned the Qur'an, finished in summer 1210 in a word-for-word version, and he then translated the creed of Ibn Tumart (1213). He names no helper, though someone versed in tafsir very probably assisted.