Details

Subject(s)

• Grammar—Arabic—18th century—manuscript [Browse]
• Arabic grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic grammar—Syntax [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts, Greek—18th century [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Constanin Racovica (1699-1764) was a member of the powerful Racovitza family, hellenized Moldavian and Wallachian boyars who provided the Danubian principalities with several hospodars.

Summary note

Autograph manuscript in Greek and Arabic, signed; unpublished grammar of and introduction to Arabic, composed in Greek by a ruler of the Ottoman Principality of Wallachia, Constantin Racovica, written in his own hand in 1754, during his first term as monarch of Wallachia.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 35 lines a page in black ink on strong Central European writing paper (imitation of Dutch "Pro Patria" watermark; numbered in Arabic and written on both sides.
• Inscription on title page reads: "Syntomos eisagōgē tēs aravikēs / glōssēs. Syntetheisa para tou hypsēlotatou kai eusevestatou / authentou kai hēgemonos pasēs oungrovlachias / kyriou kyriou Iōannou Kōnstantinou michaēl / rhakovitza voevoda / 1758: kata mēna / dekemvrion."

Binding note

Bound in 19th-century half calf with giltstamped spine, titled in Greek capital letters, "Rakovitza Voevoda Grammatikē tēs aravikēs glōssēs"; marbled endpapers.

Source acquisition

Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2017-81.

OCLC

1365103554

Other standard number

• C0879 (Princeton Greek MS. 129)

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