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More imagesKitab al-Amthal. Proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriae duae, ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectae & explicata: cum interpretatione Latina & scholiis
Ibn-Sallam, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim (773-837) / Joseph Juste Scaligeri & Thomas Erpenii
Language: Latin
Published by Ex Typographia Erpeniana, Linguarum Orientalium, prostant apud J. Maire, Leyde, 1623
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. [14], 134 pp., [1 leaf with printer's mark], Arabic & Latin text edited & introduced by Joseph Juste Scaligeri & Thomas Erpenius, contemporary calf with letters 'G.W.' embossed on both covers, title gilt on spine, skilfully rebacked, title vignette, margins a bit browned, occasional fo…xing, Ex Typographia Erpeniana. Second edition of this collection of 200 Arabic proverbs, first published in 1614. The dedicatory epistle to Meric Casaubon, signed: 'Thomae Erpenius' is followed by a letter to Isaac Casaubon, dated 'Calendis Martiis anni a nato Messia M.D.C.X1V.' (date of the first, 4o edition), and 'Praefatio Thomae Erpenii ad Lectorem'; two lettersto the author from Isaac Casaubon precede the main text; preliminary pages all in Latin; main text in Arabic and Latin; printer's device of a palm tree and the motto: 'Assurgo Pressa' on recto of final leaf; the 1614 edition was printed 'In Officina Raphelengiana'. The celebrated Dutch orientalist, Thomas van Erpen, Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Leyden, was not content merely to produce works for facilitating the study of Oriental languages; 'il comprit que pour que leur connaissance ne se bornat pas uniquement a rendre plus aisee les relations politiques et commerciales, et put devenir d'une utilite reelle pour la litterature, il fallait reproduire par la presse et repandre les oeuvres des ecrivains de l'Orient. Aide par des secours accordespar les Etats-Generaux, il etablit a Leyde, bientot apres son retour en Hollande, une imprimerie arabe, qu'il surveilla et qu'il dirigea lui-meme.' [NBG] A selection from Abu 'Ubayd ibn Sallam's famous collection of Arabic proverbs, with Latin version by the great classical scholar Joseph Scaliger, prepared for publication by the pioneering Arabist Thomas Erpenius, and printed at the press of Frans Raphelengius the Elder. Abu 'Ubayd ibn Sallam, an eighth-century scholar who studied at the grammatical schools of Basra, Kufa, and Baghdad, wrote standard works on a number of linguistic subjects, including his famous compilation of proverbs- his only known work on adab. As such, this book represents the first printing of any Arabic "literary" work. It is also one of the first Arabic publications from the Dutch university town of Leiden, famous for its Arabic studies and publications throughout the Golden Age of the seventeenth century and down to the present day. The Orientalist scholar-printer, Raphelengius (son-in-law of the great Antwerp printer, Plantin) had already in 1595 produced a specimen of Arabic types which included examples of maghribi letter forms; but it was not until the second decade of the seventeenth century that he produced any Arabic texts - Epistles from the New Testament, Erpenius' great grammar of Arabic, his own Arabic-Latin Lexicon (the first such publication), and this edition of Arabic proverbs. The original manuscript copy of the proverbs had been acquired in Rome by a Frenchman, David Rivault Sieur de Fleurance, who gave it at first to a Maronite for translating, and then took it back with him to Paris for the towering figure of French scholarship, Isaac Casaubon who, in turn, passed the manuscript to the other great scholar of the period, Joseph Scaliger in Leiden, who applied his rudimentary knowledge of Arabic to translating the proverbs. But it was Thomas Erpenius who prepared the edition and tactfully added notes to the great scholar's work. The printed dedication is to Casaubon, by then a Huguenot exile in London and near the end of his life. A second edition, dedicated by Erpenius to Isaac Casaubon's son, appeared in 1623. Bibliographic references: Smitskamp, PO, 67; Fück, 61-62; Schnürrer, 217; Breugelmans, 200. #35131.
More imagesKitab al-Amthal. Seu Proverbiorum Arabicorum Centuriae Duae. ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectæ & explicatæ. Cum interpretatione Latina et scholiis.
Ibn-Sallam, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim (773-837) / Joseph Juste Scaligeri & Thomas Erpenii.
Language: Latin
Published by Raphalengius, Leiden, 1614
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8 vo. [7], 116 pages, Arabic & Latin text, modern half calf binding with marbled boards, raised gilt spine, gilt title, title page with ownership entry and faint stamp, last ten leaves with water stain at top margin, occasional spotting and browning, complete copy with the last blank le…af. RARE, first edition. Collection of 200 Arabic proverbs, compiled anonymously by the Islamic jurist Abu Ubaid al-Qasim Ibn Sallam (773 -837), translated into Latin and commented by Joseph Justus Scaliger and Thomas Erpenius, dedicated to Isaac Casaubonus. This work is a milestone in the history of occidental Arabic studies. "The edition of these proverbs took a long time to crystallize. Originally the Arabic text was acquired in Rome by the French scholar Florens Christianus, who asked a Lebanese Arab to translate the text into Latin. He then gave the work to Casaubonus at whose instigation the Dutch scholar Adrian Willemsz and after his early death, Scaliger started a revision, which was finally published by Erpenius. In the translation and the commentary Erpenius is careful to denote what is Scaliger's, his own, or of both" (Smitskamp). Bibliographic reference: Schnurrer 216. Smitskamp 267. #34104.
