Ibn adjurrum muhammad (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo (112 x 164 mm). (14) ff., (2 blank ff.), 286 pp., final blank leaf. With woodcut vignette to title-page. Contemporary limp vellum with ms. spine title. Extremely rare: the fourth edition altogether of this early native grammar by the Moroccan scholar Sanhagius (Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Daud as-Sanhadji Ibn Adjurrum, 1273-1323), following those by the Medicean Press (1592, only 24 pages), of Kirsten (1610), and Erpenius (1617). "This [publication is] still in the handy small octavo size similar to [.] that of the 'Alphabeta'. The [editor] warns the reader against irregularities in the text, owing to the difficulties of printing Arabic texts, and the new type [.] The attrative 24pt types are identical with Granjon's 'arabe du Kitab al-Bustan', first used by Basa in 1585, and afterwards rarely used. On the second leaf, a rather unusual 'approbatio' is printed, by Pietro della Valle, dated 'ex Musaeo', April 1630. In 18 lines a very laudatory account of the work is given, preceded and followed by the official imprimatur of the Church authorities" (Smitskamp). It is edited by Tommaso Obicini da Novara (1585-1632), "one of the figures at the background of the Propaganda Press, abbot of the Franciscan convent at Aleppo from 1613-16 and 1619-20, and in 1620 elected Custode di Terra Santa e Commissario Apostolico per tutto l'Oriente. In 1621 he returned to Rome, and became the first lector of Arabic in the St. Peter Convent at Rome" (ibid.). - Some worming to hinges; paper a little browned throughout. Early underlinings in green ink to Pietro della Valle's Approbatio. - Autograph ownership of the Protestant theologian Johann Wülfer (1651-1724) of Nuremberg, dated 1675, to front flyleaf: "Comparavit Romae Anno Jubilae MDCLXXV pro 4 Pauli / Joh. Wülfer". - Schnurrer no. 63. Smitskamp 222 (with fig. on p. 184). Graf IV, 175. Lambrecht 601. Fück 77.…