sanhagius (2 Ergebnisse)

limp vellum. Zustand: near fine. Second complete edition. Two parts, small quarto. A-X4 (lacks S3 = 83 leaves). [8], 132, 135-157, [2, indices and errata], [1, blank] pp. Paginated from right to left. Title within woodcut border; separate title for second part; woodcut lettrines. Text alternating in Arabic and Latin (with commentary). Contemporary limp vellum with exposed thongs. Covers lightly soiled, faint dampstains at outer margin final leaves, else a fine, crisp, amply-margined (but imperfect) copy. Compendium of two important early works on Arabic grammar, including the second complete edition of the Ajurrumiya, a popular grammatical work by Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Sanhaji, known as ibn Ajurrum (ca. 1273-1323), first published in 1592 at the Typographia Medicea in Rome. The present volume is augmented with the editio princeps of the Mi'at 'amil of ?Abd al-Qahir ibn ?Abd al-Rahman Jurjani (-ca. 1079). This important production of the Erpenius press allowed the editor ?to display in full his recently acquired type, complete with vocalisation signs.? The first professor of Arabic in the Dutch Republic, Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) established his own printing shop with Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Turkish type. He was one of the most important and influential Arabic specialists of the seventeenth century, and was also the first to render intelligible the native Arabic grammarians. In the present work he ?welded Arabic terminology onto the Latin language, and thus made available to the Western World an important source for understanding the philological conceptions underlying Arabic literature" (Smitskamp). Making here its first appearance in print, the ?Mi?at ?amil of Jurjani deals with 100 Arabic modifiers and particles, providing examples of their various uses. Provenance: manuscript entry of A. G. Ellis, dated ?1.07? at title; bookplate of P. A. Kasteel at pastedown. References: Schnurrer, Bibl. arabica, 53. Smitskamp (Phil. Orient.) 78, and with illus. p. 65. Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 32.

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.