Kitāb al-amthāl = Proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriae duae / ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectae & explicata: ; cum interpretatione Latina & scholiis Iosephi Scaligeri ... et Thomae Erpenii.

Format
Book
Language
  • Latin
  • Arabic
Εdition
Editio secunda priore emendatior.
Published/​Created
Lugduni Batavorum : Ex typographia Erpeniana, linguarum Orientalium : Prostant apud Iohannem Maire, 1623.
Description
[16], 134, [2] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)

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Subject(s)
Related name
Associated name
Rare books genre
Notes
  • Latin and Arabic.
  • Title words in Arabic script romanized.
  • Printer's device (on t.p. and p. [1] at end): palm tree with motto, Assur go pressa.
  • Ex copy has numerous blank leaves preceding and following the printed text.
Binding note
Contemporary calf binding; rebacked.
Provenance
Ex copy has numerous marks of ownership: the early ms. initials ''[B.?] D.L.R.'' on the t.p.; an inscription on the t.p. verso--possibly in the same hand--that this copy was the gift of D. Mericus Casaubonus Js. Filius, the son of Isaac Casaubon and the dedicatee of this work; annotations throughout both the printed text and the blank leaves preceding and following the text, and the ink stamps of the Nottingham Free Public Libraries.
References
Brunet II, column 1050
Other title(s)
  • Proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriae duae.
  • Proverbiorvm Arabicorvm centuriae duae.
  • Rudimenta Arabicae.
  • Proverb. Arabic.
OCLC
28124290
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