Alcorani Textus Universus Ex correctionibus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atque pulcherrimis characteribus descriptus...
MARACCI, Ludovico. Alcorani Textus Universus Ex correctionibus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atque pulcherrimis characteribus descriptus…
Padua: Ex Typographica Seminarii, 1698
2 vols. Folio (350 x 230 mm). Latin and Arabic type, some Hebrew, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, separate section titles. A little light browning to title of volume I and first quire of volume II, small discreet closed tear to lower portion of gutter of vol I title. The odd occasional spot of light marginal staining, otherwise remarkably clean and fresh inside in near-contemporary calf, elegantly and very skillfully rebacked, head- and tail-bands renewed, the spine richly gilt in compartments, title in gilt. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, corners and edges with neat early repairs. A VERY GOOD AND ATTRACTIVE SET, INTERNALLY FRESH. Early 19th century typographic bookplate of the Bristol Education Society to upper pastedown, above late 18th century engraved armorial ex-dono bookplate of Thomas Llewellyn below, covering 18th century armorial engraved bookplate of Samuel Chandler to both volumes.
THE THIRD PRINTING OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE QUR'AN, a monumentally influential work for subsequent translations and European scholarship of the Qur'an.
Maracci (1612-1700) was a Clerk Regular of the Mother of God and Confessor to Pope Innocent XI. He was Professor of Arabic at the Seminary in Padua, whose press published the present work; it had been endowed with a school of Oriental Studies and a printing press by Cardinal Barbarigo.
Maracci's translation was far superior to both Bibliander's publication of Robert of Ketton's version and Du Ryer's, the two most significant versions available at the time, although the French Orientalist Claude-Etienne Savary, criticized it as being too literal a century later. Maracci's work is couched in a commentary and "refutation" of the Qur'an with the stated goal of defending Catholicism; it is nonetheless scholarly; Maracci drew on a number of Muslim commentators - al-Baydawi, al-Suyuti, al-Tha'labi, al-Bukhari, al-Hamdani, and others. Maracci first gives the Arabic text, then the Latin translation, and then his refutation, Surah by Surah. The main text of the Qur'an is preceded by a short life of Mohammed, and also includes the Creed translated into Arabic, given in double column Arabic and Latin. It was this work that provided the basis for George Sale's groundbreaking translation into English fifty years later.
Thomas Llewelyn was a prominent 18th century Baptist minister in Wales, who did much to promote the distribution of Welsh Bibles. On his death in 1783, he left his library, then valued at £1,500, to the Bristol Education Society.
Samuel Chandler, whose bookplate is just visible under Llewelyn's on the upper pastedown of both volumes, is possibly the Nonconformist minister, Fellow of the Royal Society, and author of A Vindication of the Christian Religion. Chandler (1693-1766), as well as being a noted pamphleteer and preacher, was also a bookdealer, having lost most of his wife's fortune in the South Sea Bubble, although his congregation did eventually award him an extra £100 a year stipend if he agreed to give up the trade.
Scarce.
Brunet III, 1307.
MARACCI, Ludovico. Alcorani Textus Universus Ex correctionibus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atque pulcherrimis characteribus descriptus…
Padua: Ex Typographica Seminarii, 1698
2 vols. Folio (350 x 230 mm). Latin and Arabic type, some Hebrew, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, separate section titles. A little light browning to title of volume I and first quire of volume II, small discreet closed tear to lower portion of gutter of vol I title. The odd occasional spot of light marginal staining, otherwise remarkably clean and fresh inside in near-contemporary calf, elegantly and very skillfully rebacked, head- and tail-bands renewed, the spine richly gilt in compartments, title in gilt. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, corners and edges with neat early repairs. A VERY GOOD AND ATTRACTIVE SET, INTERNALLY FRESH. Early 19th century typographic bookplate of the Bristol Education Society to upper pastedown, above late 18th century engraved armorial ex-dono bookplate of Thomas Llewellyn below, covering 18th century armorial engraved bookplate of Samuel Chandler to both volumes.
THE THIRD PRINTING OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE QUR'AN, a monumentally influential work for subsequent translations and European scholarship of the Qur'an.
Maracci (1612-1700) was a Clerk Regular of the Mother of God and Confessor to Pope Innocent XI. He was Professor of Arabic at the Seminary in Padua, whose press published the present work; it had been endowed with a school of Oriental Studies and a printing press by Cardinal Barbarigo.
Maracci's translation was far superior to both Bibliander's publication of Robert of Ketton's version and Du Ryer's, the two most significant versions available at the time, although the French Orientalist Claude-Etienne Savary, criticized it as being too literal a century later. Maracci's work is couched in a commentary and "refutation" of the Qur'an with the stated goal of defending Catholicism; it is nonetheless scholarly; Maracci drew on a number of Muslim commentators - al-Baydawi, al-Suyuti, al-Tha'labi, al-Bukhari, al-Hamdani, and others. Maracci first gives the Arabic text, then the Latin translation, and then his refutation, Surah by Surah. The main text of the Qur'an is preceded by a short life of Mohammed, and also includes the Creed translated into Arabic, given in double column Arabic and Latin. It was this work that provided the basis for George Sale's groundbreaking translation into English fifty years later.
Thomas Llewelyn was a prominent 18th century Baptist minister in Wales, who did much to promote the distribution of Welsh Bibles. On his death in 1783, he left his library, then valued at £1,500, to the Bristol Education Society.
Samuel Chandler, whose bookplate is just visible under Llewelyn's on the upper pastedown of both volumes, is possibly the Nonconformist minister, Fellow of the Royal Society, and author of A Vindication of the Christian Religion. Chandler (1693-1766), as well as being a noted pamphleteer and preacher, was also a bookdealer, having lost most of his wife's fortune in the South Sea Bubble, although his congregation did eventually award him an extra £100 a year stipend if he agreed to give up the trade.
Scarce.
Brunet III, 1307.
MARACCI, Ludovico. Alcorani Textus Universus Ex correctionibus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, atque pulcherrimis characteribus descriptus…
Padua: Ex Typographica Seminarii, 1698
2 vols. Folio (350 x 230 mm). Latin and Arabic type, some Hebrew, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, separate section titles. A little light browning to title of volume I and first quire of volume II, small discreet closed tear to lower portion of gutter of vol I title. The odd occasional spot of light marginal staining, otherwise remarkably clean and fresh inside in near-contemporary calf, elegantly and very skillfully rebacked, head- and tail-bands renewed, the spine richly gilt in compartments, title in gilt. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, corners and edges with neat early repairs. A VERY GOOD AND ATTRACTIVE SET, INTERNALLY FRESH. Early 19th century typographic bookplate of the Bristol Education Society to upper pastedown, above late 18th century engraved armorial ex-dono bookplate of Thomas Llewellyn below, covering 18th century armorial engraved bookplate of Samuel Chandler to both volumes.
THE THIRD PRINTING OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE QUR'AN, a monumentally influential work for subsequent translations and European scholarship of the Qur'an.
Maracci (1612-1700) was a Clerk Regular of the Mother of God and Confessor to Pope Innocent XI. He was Professor of Arabic at the Seminary in Padua, whose press published the present work; it had been endowed with a school of Oriental Studies and a printing press by Cardinal Barbarigo.
Maracci's translation was far superior to both Bibliander's publication of Robert of Ketton's version and Du Ryer's, the two most significant versions available at the time, although the French Orientalist Claude-Etienne Savary, criticized it as being too literal a century later. Maracci's work is couched in a commentary and "refutation" of the Qur'an with the stated goal of defending Catholicism; it is nonetheless scholarly; Maracci drew on a number of Muslim commentators - al-Baydawi, al-Suyuti, al-Tha'labi, al-Bukhari, al-Hamdani, and others. Maracci first gives the Arabic text, then the Latin translation, and then his refutation, Surah by Surah. The main text of the Qur'an is preceded by a short life of Mohammed, and also includes the Creed translated into Arabic, given in double column Arabic and Latin. It was this work that provided the basis for George Sale's groundbreaking translation into English fifty years later.
Thomas Llewelyn was a prominent 18th century Baptist minister in Wales, who did much to promote the distribution of Welsh Bibles. On his death in 1783, he left his library, then valued at £1,500, to the Bristol Education Society.
Samuel Chandler, whose bookplate is just visible under Llewelyn's on the upper pastedown of both volumes, is possibly the Nonconformist minister, Fellow of the Royal Society, and author of A Vindication of the Christian Religion. Chandler (1693-1766), as well as being a noted pamphleteer and preacher, was also a bookdealer, having lost most of his wife's fortune in the South Sea Bubble, although his congregation did eventually award him an extra £100 a year stipend if he agreed to give up the trade.
Scarce.
Brunet III, 1307.