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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 131 pages ; 23 cm. Contents Preface Islam and Comparative Literature Stylistics in Comparative Literature: An Outlook Islam in Western Literature: A Survey Fact and Fiction in Scott's Talisman: A Critique Shaw's and Al-Hakim's Pygmalion: An Analogy.
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Fez Dans la Cosmographie D?al-hassan Ben Mohammed Al-wazzân Az-zayyâti Dit Léon L'Africain
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JEAN-LEON L AFRICAIN - Description de l Afrique. -------- TOME 1 , seul
JEAN-LEON L AFRICAIN ( El Hasan ben Mohammed el-Wazzan ez-Zayyâti ) [ Traduit par Alexis EPAULARD ]
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Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. 2ème Édition. Paris 1981. 1 Volume/1. --TOME 1 seul -- Comme Neuf -- Broché cousu. Couverture illustrée . Format in-8°( 23,3 x 16,8 cm ( 550 gr ). ------ XVI-319 pages .*************** ******************** SOMMAIRE : Introduction : A l'excellent Messire Gerome Fracastor, Jean-Baptiste RA…MUSIO. // 1ère Part. : Origine du nom d'Afrique Limites de l'Afrique Divisions de l'Afrique Divisions et Royaumes de ces quatre parties de l'Afrique Divisions de la Numidie, c'est-à-dire du pays où poussent les palmiers Division des déserts situés entre la Numidie de la terre des Noirs Division de la Terre des Noirs en Royaumes Peuplement de l'Afrique signification du mot Barbar Origine des Africains Division des Africains blancs en pIusieurs peuples. Différences et concordances dans la langue africaine Arabes qui habitent les villes d' Afrique Arabes qui, en Afrique, habitent sous la tente et non dans des maisons Division des Arabes qui sont venus habiter l'Afrique et qui sont appelés Arabes berbérisés Répartition territoriale des Arabes, Leur nombre Peuple de Hilel, Ses territoires Peuple de Mahchil, Ses territoires, Son nombre Deui Mansor Deui Hubeidulla Coutumes et façons de vivre des Africains qui habitent le désert de Libye Façon de vivre et coutumes des Arabes qui habitent l'Afrique Arabes qui habitent les déserts situés entre la Berbérie et l'Egypte Soaua, c'est-à-dire éleveurs de moutons, population africaine qui vit à la mode arabe Religion des anciens Africains Ecriture employée par les Africains Sites d'Afrique Endroits d'Afrique sauvages et neigeux Mouvements naturels de l'air en Afrique et variations qui en résultent Limites caractéristiques des saisons Brièveté de la vie et longévité chez les Africains Maladies les plus fréquentes chez les Africains Qualités et choses louables chez les Africains Défauts et choses blâmables chez les Africains. ******************* ref.
JEAN-LEON L AFRICAIN - Description de l Afrique. -------- TOME 2 , seul
JEAN-LEON L AFRICAIN ( El Hasan ben Mohammed el-Wazzan ez-Zayyâti ) [ Traduit par Alexis EPAULARD ]
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Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. 2ème Édition. Paris 1981. 1 Volume/1. -- TOME 2 seul -- Comme Neuf -- Broché cousu. Couverture illustrée . Format in-8°( 23,3 x 16,8 cm ( 572 gr ). ------ pages 324 à 629 . 4 planches, 2 vignettes et 11 cartes Hors-Texte, dont 2 dépliantes / la carte dressée d'après Jean-Léon l'Africain…par Mattia Hasio, 1737 et in-fine la carte dressée par henri LHOTE . Un index des noms propres occupe les pages 591 à 630.*********** SOMMAIRE : 4ème Part. : Royaume de Telensin : Angad, désert Temzegzet, château Izli, château Guagida, ville Nedroma, ville Tebecrit, ville Hunain, ville Haresgol La grande ville de Telensin Coutumes et offices de la cour du roi Hubbed, ville Tefesra Tessala Beni Rasid, province Batha, ville Oran, ville Mersalcabir Mezzagran Mustaganin Bresch Sersel, ville Meliana Tenez, ville Mazuna, viIle Gezeir, c'est-à-dire Alger Tegdemt, ville Mediia Temendfust Tedelles, ville Monts du royaume de Tlemcen Beni Iezneten, montagne Matgara, montagne Gualhasa, montagne Agbal, montagne Beni Guerenned Magraua, montagne. Beni Abusaid, montagne Guanseris, montagne Monts de l'Etat d'Alger. /// 5ème Part. : Royaume de Buggia et de Tunis : Grande ville de Bougie Gegel, château Mesila, ville Stefe Necaus El Collo, ville Sucaicada Costantina, ville Mela, ville Bona, ville Tefas, ville Tebessa, ville Urbs, ville Begia, ville Hain Sammit Casba Choros, château Bensart Carthagine, grande ville La grande ville de Tunis Cour du roi , son ordonnance, son cérémonial, ses fonctionnaires Napoli Cammart Marsa Ariana Hammamet Eraclia Susa Monaster Tobulba El Mahdia, ville Asfachus Cairavan, qui fut une grande ville Capes, ville El Hamma Machres, château Ile de Gerbe Zoara, ville Lepide Tripoli la vieille Tripoli de Berbérie Monts de l'Etat de Bougie Auraz, montagne Monts de l'Etat de Constantine Monts de Bona Monts voisins de Tunis Monts des Beni Iefren et des Nufusa Monts de Garian Monts des Beni Gualid Casr Acmed Subeicha Casr Hessen El Ghar, village Gare el Gare Sarman Zauiat ben Iarbuh Zanzor Hamrozo Tagiora Mesellata, province Mesrata, province Désert de Barca. /// 6ème Part.: Numidie : Tesset, ville de Numidie Guaden Ifran Accha Dara Segelmesse Cheneg Matgara Reteb Territoire de Segelmesse Segelmesse, ville Essuoaihila, château Ummelhedegi Ummelhefen Tabelbelt Todga Farcala Tezerin Beni Gumi Mazalig et Abuhinan, châteaux Chasair Beni Besseri Guachde Fighig Tesebit Tegorarin Meszab Techort Guargala Zeb, province Pescara Borgi Nefta Teolacha Deusen Biledulgerid Teuzar Caphsa, ville Nefzaoa Teoerrega Iasliten Gademes, zone habitée Fezzen. Désert de Libye : Désert des Zanhaga Désert où habite le peuple Guenziga Désert où habite le peuple Targa Désert où habite le peuple Lemta Désert où habite le peuple des Berdaoa Nun, zone habitée Tegaza Augela Serte Berdeua Al Guechet./// 7ème Part. Pays des Noirs : Gualata, royaume Ghinea, royaume Melli, royaume Tombutto Cabra, ville Gago et son royaume Guber, royaume Agadez et son royaume Cano Casena et son royaume Zegzeg et son royaume Zanfara Guangara, royaume Borno et son royaume Gaoga et son royaume Nubia et son royaume. /// 8ème ET 97ME Parties. [ Voir Photos ] *************************.
JEAN-LEON L AFRICAIN - Description de l Afrique. -------- 2 Volumes/2
JEAN-LEON L AFRICAIN ( El Hasan ben Mohammed el-Wazzan ez-Zayyâti ) [ Traduit par Alexis EPAULARD ]
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Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. 2ème Édition. Paris 1981. 2 Volumes/2. -- Comme Neuf -- Brochés cousus. Couvertures illustrées . Format in-8°( 23,3 x 16,8 cm ( 1130 gr l'ensemble ). ------ Pagination continue : 629 pages . 4 planches, 2 vignettes et 11 cartes Hors-Texte, dont 2 dépliantes / la carte dressée d'après Jea…n-Léon l'Africain par Mattia Hasio, 1737 et in-fine la carte dressée par henri LHOTE . Un index des noms propres occupe les pages 591 à 630.*************** "" Cette nouvelle édition fut traduite d'après le manuscrit 953 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Rome. Cet ouvrage est capital pour la connaissance de l'Afrique du XVIe siècle depuis les rives du Nil à celles du Congo. L'auteur y décrit les moeurs, coutumes, religions des habitants, ainsi que la faune et la flore. El-Hasan el-Wazzâan est né en 1488, dans Grenade assiégée. Après la prise de la ville par les Rois Catholiques, Isabelle de Castille et Ferdinand d'Aragon, sa famille se réfugie à Fès. Hasan y suivra ses études de théologie dans plusieurs madrasas de Fès et à la Quarraouiyine. A l'âge de 20 ans, il s'engage définitivement sur les routes et la voie de la diplomatie. Sa vie, sera celle d'un grand voyageur et d'un fin négociateur politique : ses missions politiques et commerciales le mèneront à travers tout le Maroc : du Rif au Souss, des Doukkala au Tadla, du Tafilalet aux zones pré-sahariennes ainsi que dans tous les pays du Maghreb, l'Arabie, l'Afrique saharienne, Constantinople et l'Egypte. En 1518, de retour de l'un de ses voyages, son voilier est attaqué. Capturé par les chevaliers de l'Ordre de Saint Jean, il est offert en présent au Pape Léon X, qui le fait catéchiser puis baptiser sous ses propres noms, Jean Léon. Il devient alors "Jean-Léon de Médicis", dit "Léon l'Africain". Pendant son séjour en Italie, il s'initie à l'italien et au latin, et enseigne l'arabe à Bologne. Sur demande du Pape, il écrivit sa fameuse "Cosmographia de Affrica", publiée à Venise sous le titre "Description de l'Afrique". Cet ouvrage de référence, qui évite soigneusement de donner des informations à caractère militaire, est la seule source de renseignement sur la vie, les murs, les us et coutumes dans le monde musulman du XVIe siècle. Il sera la Bible de tous les diplomates et explorateurs intéressés par l'Afrique." ******************* ref.
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JEAN-LEON L'AFRICAIN( El Hasan ben Mohammed el-Wazzan ez-Zayyâti), EPAULARD (A.)
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Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. in-4° Reliure demi-cuir à coins chagrin, 5 nerfs, 2 volumes, XVI-630 pages illustrées de 4 planches, 2 vignettes et de 11 cartes hors-texte, dont la carte dressée d'après Jean-Léon l'Africain par Mattia Hasio, 1737. Description Annoté par A. Epaulard, Th. Monod, H. Lhote et R…. Mauny. Cette nouvelle édition fut traduite d après le manuscrit 953 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Rome. Cet ouvrage est capital pour la connaissance de l'Afrique du XVIe siècle depuis les rives du Nil à celles du Congo. L'auteur y décrit les moeurs, coutumes, religions des habitants, ainsi que la faune et la flore.
More imagesPublished by Jean Temporal, Lyon, 1556
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzân) "Historiale description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde." -Translated into French by Jean Temporal -Published in Lyon by Jean Temporal - 1556 -Folio (33.5 × 22 cm). Two volumes bound in 1. -Collation: [20], 495 (actually 499), [12]…; [10], 160; [8], 307, 64 (of 70) pp. Lacking six pages at the end. -Double page map of Africa in duplicate (as called for) -Bound in restored contemporary gilt French calf binding. -Condition: Some browning, foxing and stains. light waterstaining to the end of one volume. Several costume woodcuts with contemporary pen marks and manuscript marginalia in places. Occasional worming and tears. Overall very good. The first French edition of Leo Africanus' celebrated description of Africa in (restored) contemporary bindings. This monumental collection is the first major collection of voyages printed in France with illustrations. The translation is based on Ramusio's Primo volume delle navigationi which was first published in Venice in 1550. Alongside it's description of Africa by various authors (including Leo Africanus) it also includes important descriptions of Arabia, Persia, Goa, Calicut, Ceylon, and Asia. Volume one includes eight landmark voyages spanning antiquity to the Renaissance. It opens with Hanno the Carthaginian s account of early African exploration, followed by a Portuguese pilot s practical navigation. At its heart lies Leo Africanus' celebrated Description of Africa in nine books the most influential early ethnography of the continent. Alongside are the Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto's pioneering voyages to West Africa, including further reports on the land of the Blacks, and the related account of Pierre de Sintré. A Portuguese pilot's navigation from Lisbon to São Tomé illustrates the growth of the Gulf of Guinea trade, while the collection closes with Amerigo Vespucci s famous letters to Piero Soderini, which fixed the name America in European consciousness. The second volume brings together some of the most important Portuguese and Italian testimonies of discovery and encounter. It opens with the voyages of Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Thomas Lopes, and Giovanni da Empoli accounts central to the opening of the sea route to India and the mapping of Brazil. These are followed by Ludovico de Varthema of Bologna s celebrated travels, the earliest detailed European account of Arabia, Egypt, and India. From antiquity is included the rare voyage of Iamboulos, the Greek merchant, with its curious ethnographic descriptions. The Florentine Andrea Corsali's letters, sent from Cochin, describe India, Madagascar, and the early Portuguese presence in the East. The correspondence of Queen Helena of Ethiopia with King Manuel of Portugal provides a striking African voice within the collection. Part two of the second volume is devoted to Ethiopia, led by Francisco Alvares s invaluable description of his 1520 27 mission to Prester John, accompanied by royal Ethiopian letters to Pope Clement VII and the kings of Portugal. The volume closes with an important discourse on the Nile by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, paired with a learned response by Girolamo Fracastoro. The volumes are illustrated with two repeated woodcut title-borders, a printer's device, two double-page woodcut maps, and 36 mostly large in-text woodcuts, including striking depictions of costume. The great double-printed map of Africa in south projection is present in both volumes (as required), together with a full-page map of North and Central Africa with the Nile reaching its conjectured sources.
More imagesPublished by London, [Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION thus. Folio, pp. [viii], 60; 420. [pi] , a-e , A-O , Q-2N . Double page engraved map. Roman letter some Italic. Woodcut printer's device on title, historiated and floriated woodcut initials, typographical ornaments, "Liber Thomas Smith. pre. 5S-6D Anno Salutis 1623" at…head of second leaf. Title page and verso of last a little dusty, minor marginal soiling at edges of first few leaves, quires A and M a little shorter, rare marginal stain or spot. A very good copy, the map in good dark impression, in handsome contemporary calf, covers bordered with a triple blind rule, spine with blind hatched raised bands, blind ruled in compartments, well rebacked and laid down, holes for ties, a.e.r. The first English edition, translated by John Pory, of this seminal classic of African topography and ethnography. Leo Africanus, travelling in the early C16, recorded in detail the life of many remote North African kingdoms. He was born in Granada, in the 1490s moved to Fez in Morocco where Leo served the Sultan who sent him on commercial and diplomatic missions across northern and western Africa. In 1518 he was returning from Istanbul and was captured and took to Rome. There, under the patronage of Pope Leo IX he composed the present work, first published in Italian in 1550. It was a bestseller and one of Europe's principal sources of knowledge of the Arab-African world for the next 400 years."It was translated into English in 1600 by John Pory. Pory's letter 'To the Reader' tells the fascinating story of Leo's life a tale of complex interaction between Europe and Africa, Islam and Christianity This book was important in that it was written by a Moorish man and well regarded by scholars. However Pory is aware that some readers at this time might distrust the writings of a 'More' and a 'Mahumetan' (or Muslim), and he reassures them of Leo's sophistication: his 'Parentage, Witte, Education, Learning, Emploiments, Travels, and his conversion to Christianitie'." (BL). It is likely that Shakespeare was influenced by this work in his portrayal of Othello. "Pory's account of Leo's marvellous escape from 'so manie thousands of imminent dangers' might remind us of Othello's tale of 'hair-breadth escapes i' th' immanent deadly breach'. Like Leo, Othello tells of being 'sold to slavery' and we later learn that Othello was also a former Muslim, now baptised as a Christian. In his description of African people, Leo takes pains to give a balanced perspective, though it seems nonetheless stereotyped and prejudiced. Celebrating their 'vertues', he says Africans are 'Most honest people destitute of fraud and guile'. But 'no nation in the world is so subject to jealousie' (p. 40). In the unpleasant description of their 'vices', he says they are 'very proud and high-minded, and woonderfully addicted unto wrath'. They are also 'so credulous that they beleeve matters impossible which are told to them' (p. 41) and promiscuous in wooing 'divers maides' before settling on a wife (pp.4142). It is hard not see these qualities reflected in Shakespeare's Othello, at least as Iago describes him. Exploiting the stereotypes that define the Moor in Venice, Iago talks of the 'free and open nature' that makes Othello think 'men honest' when they only 'seem so'. He tells Roderigo he suspects 'the lusty Moor' of sleeping with Emilia, and plans to 'put him into jealousy so strong' that his anger will cloud his judgement. Pory's English translation (1600) was printed in the same year as the Moroccan ambassador's visit to London to negotiate a military alliance between English and African forces, with the hope of conquering Spain. In his letter to Sir Robert Cecil, Elizabeth I's secretary, Pory exploits this opportunity to market the book as particularly current, saying 'At this time especially I thought [it] would proove the more acceptable'. " (BL). ESTC S108481. STC 15481. Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated book, 1536-1603, 15481. Sabin, 40047.
More imagesHistoriale description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde.
Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).
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Folio (305 x 200 mm). Vol. 1 (of 2) only. (40), 495, (23) pp. Wood-engraved title border, double-page woodcut map of Africa, including Arabia, and 26 illustrations, all but one coloured by a contemporary hand. 18th c. mottled calf with giltstamped red label to fully gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. Scarce first French edition of t…he famous description of Islamic Africa and Arabia, with the illustrations coloured by a contemporary hand; the first collection of voyages printed in France. The book was originally written in Arabic around 1526 by the Berber Andalusi geographer and traveller al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi (ca. 1494-ca. 1554), known in the West as Johannes Leo Africanus, translated into Italian by the author and first published in Venice in 1550. The Arabian Peninsula is depicted nearly complete on the double-page woodcut map and is treated extensively in the first chapter, which contains information on its people, cities, geography, religion, customs, costumes, etc. Illustrations include Arabian camels and veiled women. - Johannes Leo took his Christian name from his sponsor Pope Leo X when he converted to Christianity after his capture in 1520. While still very young he began to travel widely in the Barbary States; in 1513 he appears to have started on his famous Sudan and Sahara journeys (1513-15). In 1516-17 he travelled to Constantinople, probably visiting Egypt on the way; it is more uncertain when he visited Arabias, Armenia and Tartary. His three Egyptian journeys, immediately after the Turkish conquest, all probably fell between 1517 and 1520; on one of these he ascended the Nile from Cairo to Aswan. - Binding somewhat rubbed; spine head and hinges professionally repaired. Repairs to lower margin of first two leaves (very slight loss of title border), some toning and soiling, water- and inkstains. Very occasional marginal tears or worming. Early marginalia and ink ownerships on title page ("Pacauld" and "Ex Bibliotheca Joh. Huyseri", i. e. Johann Huyser). No other auction record of a coloured copy in RBH or ABPC. - Adams L 482. Howgego A17. Gay 258. USTC 1136. Sabin 40044.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Rilevamento del movimento tramite computer vision | Ali Wazzan | Taschenbuch | Italienisch | 2022 | Edizioni Sapienza | EAN 9786205241837 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
