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BIBLES -- BIBLIA ARABICA -- SACROSANCTA quatuor Iesu Christi D.N. Evangelia. Arabicè scripta, Lat. reddita, figurusq. ornata. Rome, Ex Typ. Medicea, 1619. (4) lvs., 9-462 pp., impressum leaf. W. 149 splendid woodcuts after Antonio Tempesta Fol. Mod. vellum w. gilt lettering on spine. estimate EUR 1.000 ¶ Rare 1619 reissue or Titelauflage of the original 1591 stock of the Arabic-Latin Medicean Gospels, with preliminary leaves to make up for the never published first eight pages of the original edition. The text lines are almost identical with those of the Arabic issue, but now have an interlinear Latin version added, which was prepared by Antonius Sionita. - Fine copy. Darlow & Moule, 1637 & 1643; Brunet II, 1122-23; Graesse II, 531.