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VERY FINE COPY. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatio
by CASIRI, Miguel
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THE FINEST COPY OF A SPLENDID WORK ON THE ARABIC MSS AT THE ESCORIAL.
CASIRI, Miguel. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatio
Madrid, Antonius Perez de Soto imprimebat, 1760-1770.
FIRST EDITION. Folio, 2 vols: pp. [16], xxiv, 544; [8], 352 and 107 leaves of index and final errata. With text in Latin and Arabic. Woodcut vignette on both t-ps, head and tailpieces. A bright, crisp and clean copy excellently bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorations to spine and gilt borders on covers. All edges red. Silk ribbon bookmarks. Original marbled endpapers. Fine copy.
A real publishing enterprise by the Maronite scholar Miguel Casiri, who transcribed and cataloged about 1800 manuscripts in Arabic preserved in the royal monastery of San Lorenzo, better known by the name of Escorial. The work, which contains texts dating for the most part to the era of Arab rule in Spain, is divided in sections by topic (Grammatica, Rhetorica, Ethica, Medica, Historia naturalis, etc.) and is accompanied by a very clear index. Presented in sumptuous graphics, it is the first book with Arabic characters printed in Spain. Very rare to find complete given the number of years that elapses between the printing of the first and the second volume. An extraordinary copy of a beautiful book.
Updike, Printing Types, II, pp. 52, 71; Palau 47287; Graf, III, 475.
CASIRI, Miguel. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatio
Madrid, Antonius Perez de Soto imprimebat, 1760-1770.
FIRST EDITION. Folio, 2 vols: pp. [16], xxiv, 544; [8], 352 and 107 leaves of index and final errata. With text in Latin and Arabic. Woodcut vignette on both t-ps, head and tailpieces. A bright, crisp and clean copy excellently bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorations to spine and gilt borders on covers. All edges red. Silk ribbon bookmarks. Original marbled endpapers. Fine copy.
A real publishing enterprise by the Maronite scholar Miguel Casiri, who transcribed and cataloged about 1800 manuscripts in Arabic preserved in the royal monastery of San Lorenzo, better known by the name of Escorial. The work, which contains texts dating for the most part to the era of Arab rule in Spain, is divided in sections by topic (Grammatica, Rhetorica, Ethica, Medica, Historia naturalis, etc.) and is accompanied by a very clear index. Presented in sumptuous graphics, it is the first book with Arabic characters printed in Spain. Very rare to find complete given the number of years that elapses between the printing of the first and the second volume. An extraordinary copy of a beautiful book.
Updike, Printing Types, II, pp. 52, 71; Palau 47287; Graf, III, 475.
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- VERY FINE COPY. Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis; sive librorum omnium mss. quos Arabice ab auctoribus magnam partem Arabo-Hispanis Compositos Bibliotheca Coenobii Escurialensis complectitur, recensio & explanatio
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- CASIRI, Miguel
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- Antonius Perez de Soto imprimebat
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- Date Published
- 1760-1770
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