Graesse II, 515.
Thomas-Stanford no. 46.
Reccardi 1594.
1
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sic
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Ed.
]
Purchased from
Lackington of London. The book was no. 6762 in Lackington’s catalogue for 1792, from which Jefferson sent a list of his requirements, with the prices, to A. Donald on November 23, 1791. The book was included in Lackington’s bill dated December 31, 1791, the price £
1.6.0. In the bill Lackington entered merely the number, the key word
Euclid and the price. The entry is completed by Jefferson: Euclid
’s elem. in Arabic. fol. Rom. 1594. fair.
Euclid, Greek mathematician of the third century. This is the only printed version of his works in the Arabic language. The translation
into that language was made in the thirteenth century by Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi.
A note to this work in the catalogue of 1815 reads: “Books in rare languages are classed here, not according to their subject
matter, but philologically, as specimens of the language in which they are written.”
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Evangelium infantiae servatoris.
Arabicé et
Latinè Sykes.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 2, Evangelium Infantiae Servatorio, Arabicé et Latine Sykes, 12mo.
EVANGELIUM INFANTIAE.
[
two words in Arabic not transcribed--
Ed.] Evangelium Infantiæ vel Liber Apocryphus de Infantia Servatoris. Ex Manuscripto edidit, ac
Latina versione & notis illustravit Henricus Sike.
Trajecti ad Rhenum: Apud
Franciscum Halmam, Guiljelmum vande Water,
m.d.c.xcvii
. [1697]
BS2860 .A7 A7 1697
First Edition. 144 leaves including 2 blanks, title printed in red and black, engraved device,
Arabic and
Latin text on opposite pages.
Ebert 21212.
Van der Aa XVII, page 675.
Heinrich Sike, d. 1712, Dutch Oriental scholar, was for a time professor of the Arabic and Hebrew languages in Cambridge University.
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Erpenii Rudimenta linguae
Arabicae.
Lug. Bat.
1628.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 1, as above.
ERPENIUS,
Thomas.
Thomae Erpenii Rvdimenta Lingvae
Arabicae. Accedunt, ejusdem praxis grammatica; et Consilium de Studio
Arabico feliciter instituendo. Editio altera, priore emendatior . . .
Lvgdvni Batavorvm: ex Officina
Bonaventvrae et Abrahami Elsevir, Acad. Typogr.
cIɔ Iɔ
cxxviii
. [1628.]
8vo. 160 leaves, title printed in red and black, Solitaire device.
Willems 295.
Pieters 46.
Rahir 263.
Thomas Erpenius (originally Van Erpe), 1584-1624, Dutch Orientalist, was professor of Arabic and other Oriental languages (Hebrew excepted)
at the University of Leyden. The first edition of this work was printed in 1620.
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Simplification des langues
Arabes,
Persanne et
Turc. par Volney.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 55, as above.
VOLNEY,
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de.
Simplification des Langues Orientales, ou Méthode Nouvelle et Facile D’ap-
