Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Type and type-founding—Italy—Rome [Browse]
• Printing—Italy—Rome—Specimens [Browse]
• Arabic type—Specimens [Browse]

Binder

• Bourbeau, David [Browse]
• Thistle Bindery [Browse]

Former owner

• Chauncy, Isaac, 1632-1712 [Browse]

Printer

• Tipografia medicea orientale [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Type specimens [Browse]
• Stamped corrections [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Syriacae linguae prima elementa = Ṭablītā d-eskīmā d-ātwātā ... : [quibus adiectae sunt preces] and 1 other(s).

Notes

• Signatures: A-H⁴.
• Title page and text within single-rule border.
• Woodcut title-page vignette (printer's device).
• Includes syllabary and exercises.
• Fore-edge is at left when book rests on lower cover.
• Page 10 is numbered "01".

Binding note

Ex copy: In new vellum over boards by David Bourbeau of Thistle Bindery; in green silk clamshell box with his photographs of and notes on restoration and rebinding, and with envelope of fragments from old binding.

Provenance

• Ex copy: With: Syriacae linguae prima elementa. -- Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1572; and with unidentified 6-page fragment with caption title on A2: Syrorum elementa sunt XXII.
• Ex copy: Signature 'Isaac Chauncy' on terminal leaf; stamp of the American Antiquarian Society on verso of C3 of Syriacae linguae prima elementa.
• Ex copy: Several leaves of Syriacae linguae prima elementa with early ms. annotations, presumably the hand of Isaac Chauncy.

References

• Schnurrer, C.F. Bib. Arabica, 41.
• Adams, A-780.
• BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 36.

Other title(s)

Alphabetvm Arabicvm.

In

Multi-title collection including Syriacae linguae prima elementa = Ṭablītā d-eskīmā d-ātwātā ... : [quibus adiectae sunt preces] and 1 other(s).

OCLC

47816774

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