Shelfmark
Fq.4.08
Author
Uniform title
[Tarikh al-Muslimin. Latin.]
Title
Historia saracenica, qua res gestae Muslimorum, inde a Muhammede Arabe, usque ad initium imperij Atabacaei per XLIX imperatorum successionem fidelissimè explicantur. Insertis etiam passim Christianorum rebus, in Orientis ecclesijs eodem tempore potissimum gestis. Arabicè olim exarata à Georgio Elmacino fil. Abuljaseri Elamidi f. Abulmacaremi f. Abultibi. Et Latinè reddita opera & studio Thomae Erpenii Accedit & Roderici Ximenez, Archiepiscopi Toletani, Historia Arabum, longè accuratius, quam antè è manuscripto codice expressa.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batauorum : Ex typographia Erpeniana linguarum orientalium, prostant apud Iohannem Maire, & Elzevirios., MDCXXV. [1625]
Physical description
[8], 372 [i.e. 364], 75, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Note
Printer's device with motto "Non solus" on title page.
Note
Translated into Latin from the original Arabic by Thomas Erpenius.
Note
Apostrophic year of publication.
Note
A folio edition of the parallel Arabic text and Latin translation was published in Leiden under the same imprint the same year.
Note
Nos. 128-153 omitted in pagination.
Citation/references note
Willems, A. Les Elzevier, 232
Provenance
Donated to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754. Book label on front pastedown.
Binding
Contemporary plain calf binding with blind fillets around perimeter ; contemporary coloured edges.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Maire, Joannes bookseller
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Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 donor.
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Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
ara lat
Identifier
B39349