ARABIC PRINTING] -- DOMINICUS Germanus, de Silesia OFM (fl. 1630s). Fabrica overo Dittionario della lingua volgare Arabica, et Italiana. Rome: Propaganda Fide Press, 1636. 4° (217 x 152 mm). Roman and Arabic letter, woodcut device on title (marginal repair to title; some browning). Later blue paper-covered boards (spine a little rubbed). Provenance : Biblioteca del S. Eremo Tuscolano (stamps). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ARABIC GRAMMAR PUBLISHED IN ITALY, with parallel Arabic and Latin texts of the Paternoster, Salve Regina, etc. Despite the title, there is no Arabic-Italian dictionary; this appeared three years later. Schnurrer 67. ARABIC-LATIN PSALTER. Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis et Prophetae . Edited, with Latin translation, by Victor Scialac and Gabriel Sionita. Rome: Stephanus Paulinus for Typographia Savariana, 1614. 4° (218 x 157 mm). Parallel Arabic and Latin texts within ruled borders, full-page colophon with Savary de Brèves's arms (some marginal dampstains). Contemporary vellum (top of lower hinge weak). FIRST EDITION of the Arabic version of the Psalms taken from the Peshitta, in Savary de Brèves's elegant Arabic fount. Darlow and Moule 1641; Schnurrer 324. OBICINUS, Thomas, OFM (1585-1632). Grammatica Arabica...Agrumia appellata. Cum versione Latina... Rome: Propaganda Fide Press, 1631. 8° (162 x 114 mm). Contemporary vellum, in slipcase. FIRST EDITION. ERPENIUS, Thomas. Rudimenta Linguae Arabicae... . Paris: Antoine Vitray, 1638. 8° (168 x 110 mm). Contemporary calf, slipcase (a little worn). Schnurrer 69. ERPENIUS, Thomas. Arabicae linguae tyrocinium, id est grammatica Arabica . Edited by Jacobus Golius. Leyden: J. Maire, 1656. 4° (197 x 150 mm). Contemporary vellum, slipcase. Provenance: Schriftmuseum F. Soennecken, Bonn (bookplate). QUR'AN. Manuscript. The 6th juz' (section) of the Qur'an, consisting of sura 18, the'Cave', from verse 74, and the suras 19, 'Mary', and 20, 'Taha'. A prayer in Persian, dated 1235 A.H. (1819 A.D.) on final verso. 214 x 163 mm. Black and red ink on blue paper, in an elegant naskhi hand (some staining, affecting text; marginal tears to last leaf). Contemporary black goatskin (some staining). (6)
ARABIC PRINTING] -- DOMINICUS Germanus, de Silesia OFM (fl. 1630s). Fabrica overo Dittionario della lingua volgare Arabica, et Italiana. Rome: Propaganda Fide Press, 1636. 4° (217 x 152 mm). Roman and Arabic letter, woodcut device on title (marginal repair to title; some browning). Later blue paper-covered boards (spine a little rubbed). Provenance : Biblioteca del S. Eremo Tuscolano (stamps). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ARABIC GRAMMAR PUBLISHED IN ITALY, with parallel Arabic and Latin texts of the Paternoster, Salve Regina, etc. Despite the title, there is no Arabic-Italian dictionary; this appeared three years later. Schnurrer 67. ARABIC-LATIN PSALTER. Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis et Prophetae . Edited, with Latin translation, by Victor Scialac and Gabriel Sionita. Rome: Stephanus Paulinus for Typographia Savariana, 1614. 4° (218 x 157 mm). Parallel Arabic and Latin texts within ruled borders, full-page colophon with Savary de Brèves's arms (some marginal dampstains). Contemporary vellum (top of lower hinge weak). FIRST EDITION of the Arabic version of the Psalms taken from the Peshitta, in Savary de Brèves's elegant Arabic fount. Darlow and Moule 1641; Schnurrer 324. OBICINUS, Thomas, OFM (1585-1632). Grammatica Arabica...Agrumia appellata. Cum versione Latina... Rome: Propaganda Fide Press, 1631. 8° (162 x 114 mm). Contemporary vellum, in slipcase. FIRST EDITION. ERPENIUS, Thomas. Rudimenta Linguae Arabicae... . Paris: Antoine Vitray, 1638. 8° (168 x 110 mm). Contemporary calf, slipcase (a little worn). Schnurrer 69. ERPENIUS, Thomas. Arabicae linguae tyrocinium, id est grammatica Arabica . Edited by Jacobus Golius. Leyden: J. Maire, 1656. 4° (197 x 150 mm). Contemporary vellum, slipcase. Provenance: Schriftmuseum F. Soennecken, Bonn (bookplate). QUR'AN. Manuscript. The 6th juz' (section) of the Qur'an, consisting of sura 18, the'Cave', from verse 74, and the suras 19, 'Mary', and 20, 'Taha'. A prayer in Persian, dated 1235 A.H. (1819 A.D.) on final verso. 214 x 163 mm. Black and red ink on blue paper, in an elegant naskhi hand (some staining, affecting text; marginal tears to last leaf). Contemporary black goatskin (some staining). (6)
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