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ref. 182523Sidney Ohio: Chaplin Editorial Services; R. Howard Courtney Peoria Illinois 1972-82. The birth of Arab philately First editions a complete run. Chaplin was the first to devote a journal to the stamps of the entire Arab world stretching from Libya to the peninsula and as far north as Syria. We have traced one set of Chaplin's journals at the National Postal Museum and none of Courtney's. Mervin Chaplin's Journal of Arabian Philately was published at a time when Arabian stamps were unpopular amongst Western collectors a viewpoint that Chaplin aimed to counteract. His journal covered topics such as mosques featured on stamps and those issued in the Hejaz and Nejd. It also included a list of new issues in the first half of 1972. The journal only lasted for two volumes both released in 1972. Six years later stamp collector Robert Courtney decided to continue Chaplin's work with the Arab World Philatelist. He copied the design and layout of the Journal of Arabian Philately and produced six volumes. Courtney also included a list of recent auction results in every volume. 8 vols octavo. Many halftone photographic illustrations and maps; advertisements throughout. Original mixed wrappers lettered and decorated in black to recto and verso stapled as issued. Housed in a grey archival box. Some ink tick marks to the Journal of Arabian Philately. Wrappers a touch toned at extremities as expected occasional foxing and offsetting internally: a very good collection. Robert Courtney "The Arab World Philatelist 1978-1982". unknown
1852ref. 62826Paul Dupont | Paris 1852 | 35.50 x 26.50 cm | reliure de l'éditeur
1871- Hoddesdon Herts 28 février 1871, 13,5x21cm, 4 pages sur un double feuillet et un simple. - Lettre autographe inédite signée de William Ellis, quatre pages rédigées à l'encre noire sur un double feuillet et un feuillet simple. Intéressante lettre du révérend William Ellis, missionnaire de la London Missionary Society à Madagascar et auteur des plus anciennes photographies de l'île. Beau témoignage de l'approche ethnographique d'Ellis qui se détache de la « théorie du sauvage » portée par le regard européen. Il donne à son interlocuteur de précieuses informations sur les Vazimba, encore non identifiés au XIXe siècle et décrits par les premiers explorateurs de l'île comme des pygmées belliqueux vivant dans les montagnes malgaches. Ellis se montre très critique envers les descriptions fantasmées de ces prédécesseurs et privilégie les témoignages directs des habitants gardant le souvenir de ce peuple disparu. Auteur de plusieurs ouvrages d'histoire malgache, Ellis décrit en détails les légendes sur l'ethnie Vazimba qui faisaient encore de cet habitant premier, caractérisé par sa petite taille et sa peau cuivrée, l'occupant des hauts plateaux de l'île. Ellis doute fort des descriptions issues des expéditions de Flacourt (1648) et de l'abbé Rochon (1768) qui désignent ce peuple sous le nom de "Kimos" ou "Quimos" et les décrivent comme une "race naine" ("dwarf race"). Il se fie davantage aux témoignages des habitants de l'île qu'il recueille pendant ses séjours chez les Hovas et les Betsiles, rapportant la crainte et le respect qu'inspirait encore les esprits et les sépultures des Vazimba. La lettre rassemble et critique les connaissances de l'époque et mentionne l'expérience de son successeur, le révérend Charles Jukes de la London Missionary Society, dont il célébra la messe de départ en mission le 8 juillet 1866. Il évoque dans cette lettre une hypothèse qui sera confirmée par les recherches scientifiques modernes : les Vazimba seraient une des communautés fondatrices de l'île, à l'origine de la langue et de la culture malgache. "[...] By the Hova's & others who spoke of them, they were called Vazimba. They were said to be smaller in stature and lighter in colour than the Hovas, & to be regarded with superstitious feelings by the other inhabitants, who hold their tombs in extreme veneration & frequently offer at their tombs sacrifices or gifts to the spirits of the Vazimba. During my own intercourse with people on the coast & in the interior I made repeated enquiries, but never met with a native who had seen a Vazimba. Their graves I saw frequently in my journeys among the people in the interior. I saw also many of their tombs at which offerings had been recently presented and found that many of the people regarded them with superstitious fear and seemed exceedingly afraid of doing any thing likely offend them. The Hovas didn't appear to know anything of the name of Kimos all elapses of whom I enquired call the diminutive race Vazimba & spoke of them as the ancient or earliest inhabitants of the country. [...] My friend informed me that the Betsiles do not speak of the Vazimba as remarkable on account of their small size or light colour, many of the Hovas are of quite a light colour. [...] My own opinion is that the Vazimba are the dwarf of which early writers speak & that they are not as diminutive as they have been represented to be. As our missionaries now occupy the Betsiles country, I have no doubt we shall soon have reliable accounts of the Vazimba relating of their present condition as well as their traditions of the past. If the foregoing statements should prove in any way revocable it will be gratifying so." Passionnante étude fouillée et documentée sur les moeurs et les origines des habitants de Madagascar qui révèle, dans l'intimité de cette correspondance privée, l'évolution du regard ethnologique et les questionnements d'un des principaux historiens de l'île au XIXe siècle. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
1730ref. 369933Ottoman Empire 1730. Polychrome double page ornamental opening text in black ink in a rounded naskh hand 8 lines per page fully vocalized with gold dot aya markers all within gilt rule borders. Attributes within gilt frames 30 per page. Occasional annotations in red. 117 ff. Dated at end A.H. 1143. 1 vols. 12mo. Late nineteenth century Islamic binding of red leather plaque stamped in silver with fore edge guard. Some minor smudging of passages a few paper flaws. Twentieth-century ownership inscriptions on first blank. Very good plus overall. Polychrome double page ornamental opening text in black ink in a rounded naskh hand 8 lines per page fully vocalized with gold dot aya markers all within gilt rule borders. Attributes within gilt frames 30 per page. Occasional annotations in red. 117 ff. Dated at end A.H. 1143. 1 vols. 12mo. Attractive pocket devotional with short surahs tables of the Attributes of Allah and other prayers. unknown
1730ref. 369933Ottoman Empire 1730. Polychrome double page ornamental opening text in black ink in a rounded naskh hand 8 lines per page fully vocalized with gold dot aya markers all within gilt rule borders. Attributes within gilt frames 30 per page. Occasional annotations in red. 117 ff. Dated at end A.H. 1143. 1 vols. 12mo. Late nineteenth century Islamic binding of red leather plaque stamped in silver with fore edge guard. Some minor smudging of passages a few paper flaws. Twentieth-century ownership inscriptions on first blank. Very good plus overall. Polychrome double page ornamental opening text in black ink in a rounded naskh hand 8 lines per page fully vocalized with gold dot aya markers all within gilt rule borders. Attributes within gilt frames 30 per page. Occasional annotations in red. 117 ff. Dated at end A.H. 1143. 1 vols. 12mo. Attractive pocket devotional with short surahs tables of the Attributes of Allah and other prayers. unknown books
1871ref. 76693Imprimerie Mourès & Cie | Alexandrie 1871 | in-4 | relié
1663ref. PHO-2278A Paris, chez Jacques Langlois, 1663-1666 3 parties en 1 volumes in-folio (38x25cm). Veau tacheté époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec pièce de titre en maroquin et tomaison, tranches jaspées rouges. Réparations au dos et coins, mouillure, quelques rousseurs, réparation au titre, renforcement à la carte. Complet de ses relations de voyage selon Brunet & Camus
1852- Paul Dupont, Paris 1852, 35,5x26,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur. - First edition, one of 185 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on vergé d'Arches paper and reserved for his friends. Publisher's binding. Retaining its 51 lithographs. Scattered foxing and light dampstain on some leaves. Very rare. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale, un des 185 exemplaires numérotés et justifiés par Paul Fort sur vergé d'Arches et réservés à ses amis. Reliure de l'éditeur, plats de cartonnage sable comportant des auréoles claires et des rousseurs, dos de toile verte. Ouvrage bien complet de ses 51 planches lithographiées. Rousseurs éparses et mouillures claires sur certains feuillets. Très rare.
1589Folio, cc. (8), 258; cc. (6), 277, 1 c.b., (12). Frontespizio stampato in nero e rosso, con marca tipografica incisa su legno. Il Supplementum ha un proprio frontespizio. All'ultima carta Registro e marca tipografica. Numerosi legni nel testo raffigurano le piante. Il testo è su due colonne con capilettera figurati incisi su legno. Legatura in mezza pergamena. enciclopedica opera di medicina, che è anche una farmacopea, di ibn Masawaih, originario di Damasco (777-875 ca) divenne direttore di un ospedale a Bagdad; fu scrittore assai prolifico, trattò di oftalmologia, fisica, dietologia, depressione ecc. botanica medicina medicine botany piante farmacologia segreti ricette recipe givanni costeo
2 Vols., small folio (305 x 190 mm), xxxiii, [3], 49-458; [4], 582, [2]pp., text in English and Persian, occasional marginal pencil notes, title page and terminal leaf to both volumes browned, staining to inner upper corner of leaves to start and end of volume two, later vellum-backed marbled boards, title in manuscript to spines. One of the most extensive Persian grammars written in English. "Matthew Lumsden (1777?1835), orientalist, was fifth son of John Lumsden of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire, and a cousin of Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821?1896), army general. After education at King's College, Aberdeen, he went to India as assistant professor of Persian and Arabic in the College of Fort William, and in 1808 succeeded to the professorship. In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Calcutta Madrasa, and superintended various translations of English works into Persian then in progress. From 1814 until 1817 he had charge of the East India Company's press at Calcutta, and in 1818 he became secretary to the stationery committee."?(Oxford DNB). Provenance: John L. Platts? signature in pencil to title page.
1871- Imprimerie Mourès & Cie, Alexandrie , in-4, relié. - Edition originale. Reliure moderne en demi-basane bleu foncé, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, plats de la couverture conservés, couverture renforcée, traces de lavage. Ce projet de réforme du Code Civil égyptien fut élaboré pendant le règne d'Ismaïl-Pacha. Il parut peu après l'inauguration du Canal de Suez. Le vice-roi puis khédive d'Égypte, qui avait été formé en France, notamment à l'École d'État-major, manifestait un désir sincère d'ouvrir l'Égypte au progrès. Nombreuses annotations manuscrites au crayon en début de volume. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
1931Very Good Arabic Original brown half leather bindings in Egyptian style, raised six bands to spine, title gilt on the second, volume nos on fourth, and alphabetical with the historical content of the volumes on sixth compartments and "Mahmoud Al-Tawawî" name. Minor foxing on some pages. Overall a very good set. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 14 books are complete set in 7 volumes. Extremely rare first printed edition of the most comprehensive and complete corpus on Baghdad city, which includes Al-Baghdadi's first-hand account of the collection of hadiths, biographies, and his travels in the 11th century Baghdad in traditional "al-râwî" style. Al-Baghdadi is known as a Muslim traveler in the pursuit of knowledge who compiled hadiths and traveled to many Islamic cities. He was born on the 24th ?jumada II, 392 (1002) at Darzidjan, a large village on the west bank of the Tigris below Baghdad. The son of a khatib [i.e. preacher], he began his studies very early and spent his youth traveling in search of ?adith. In this way, he visited Basra, Nishapur, I?fahân, Hamadân, and Damascus. Finally settling in Baghdâd, he held the office of a kha?îb and this was the origin of the name al-Khatîb al-Bag_dadi. After completing his education, he spent more than twenty years of his time writing "Tarikh Baghdad". He finished his corpus in 444 AH [1052-53]. He was a fellow student of Rîsürrüesâ Ibn al-Muslima who was the vizier of the Abbasid caliph Kâim-Biemrillâh. The vizier took Khatib, whom he appreciated in the science of hadith, under his patronage. The Abbasid caliph, therefore, ordered Khatib to be given permission to take hadith lessons from him. Khatib started to narrate hadiths from "Tarikh Baghdad" to his students here in his house near the Nizâmiya Madrasa, on the other hand, he started to read the books for which he had permission to narrate from many teachers, also write the books he planned. Several years after, the Turkish commander Besasiri (?-1060), who was a supporter of the Fatimid Caliph Mustansir-Billâh, entered Baghdad with the encouragement of the Fatimid caliph, deposed the caliph, and killed Ibn al-Muslima. Some members of the Hanbali sect, who had a grudge against Khatib because of what they wrote against some Hanbalis in Tarikh Baghdad, started to disturb him by taking the opportunity to kill the vizier. Therefore, he had to flee to Damascus. In his masterpiece, Khatibi, in addition to his account and descriptions of the city during his time in Baghdad, 7831 figures of people in total who lived or came in Baghdad before 450 (1058), statesmen such as caliphs, viziers, commanders, poets, judges, and other professions. This is an alphabetical work giving information about biographies of these figures, but it starts with the name "Muhammad" referring to the Muslim prophet. The first volume is about the establishment of Baghdad in the pre-Islamic period, its conquest by the Muslims, and its history. This masterpiece of him, published in fourteen volumes, is the most comprehensive corpus written on Baghdad in the Islamic world including the city's topography, history, et alli. Brockelmann, GAL, I, 401; Suppl., I, 563.; H. Gibb, "Islamic Biographical Literature".; F. Rosenthal, A History of Muslim Historiography, Leiden 1968, p. 14, 43. Only one set in OCLC in BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France): 1198963531.
1870ref. 73160Alger s. d. [circa 1870] | 13 x 17 cm | 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album
1870ref. 73485Alger s. d. [circa 1870] | 13 x 17 cm | 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album
1889ref. 84378Matbaa-i-Osmaniye | Istanbul 1889 | 13.20 x 18.80 cm | relié
1595ref. 0044291595 [Anvers], Ortelius, 1595. Deux cartes (51 X 39 cm) et (50 X 33 cm) sous cadres en pichepin.
1717In-8°, (30 cc) compreso ritratto, antiporta e frontespizio, pp. 272, 4 carte ripiegate, legatura in pelle con titolo al dorso. Prima edizione. La prima parte di questo lavoro, intitolata Compendium theologiae mohammedicae arabice et latine, è un'edizione in arabo, con traduzione, di una piccola opera simile al Mukhtasar di Abû Suj ed è probabilmente la prima edizione stampata di un'opera islamica così essenziale in Occidente . La seconda parte è il contributo più importante di Reelant per una migliore comprensione dell'Islam in cui si propone di correggere molte credenze popolari con citazioni dal Corano e da altre fonti arabe. In-8°, (30 cc) including portrait, frontispice and title page, pp. 272, 4 engraved folded plates, binding in calf with title at the spine. First edition.The first part of this work, entitled Compendium theologiae mohammedicae arabice et latine is an edition in Arabic, with translation, of a small work similar to Abû Sujâ s Mukhtasar and is probably the first printed edition of such an essential Islamic work in the West. The second part is Reelant’ s most important contribution towards a better understanding of Islam in which he sets out to rectify many popular misbeliefs with quotations from the Coran and other Arabic sources.
1947ref. 184799London: Geographical Section General Staff 1947. Arabic and military cartography Rare first and only edition of this Arabic glossary for use on foreign maps produced by the British War Office. It explains the use of Arabic terms on maps covering territories to the east of the Libyan-Egyptian border and was part of an extensive series published in the 1940s. The spelling and transliteration follow the RGS II System conventions devised by the Royal Geographical Society's Permanent Committee on Geographical Names in 1921 updating those used by the War Office and Admiralty after 1885. The introduction includes a survey of the history of the Arabic language its alphabet pronunciation and dialects in view of instructing soldiers pilots and surveyors on how to read and pronounce names on maps of the Middle East. "An Arabic word may appear on European maps in numerous transliterated forms each depending upon the national authority of the map and the principle of transliteration applied to the names on it" p. 2 due to the "considerable play" between a e and i and other such alternative renditions of specific letters and sounds. The four-column table provides abbreviations transliteration the Arabic-script version and the meaning of Arabic words commonly found on maps. For instance aqra' is rendered as "without vegetation" ashqar as "reddish" ghurd as "sand dune" and zallaq as "slippery place" specifying if a noun is a plural and/or in a different grammatical case. Words originating from other languages Berber Hebrew Greek Latin Turkish and Persian are also identified. Octavo 270 x 185 mm. pp. 28 2. Text in Arabic and English. Original printed brown paper wrappers three punch holes. Wrappers lightly waterstained along lower edge foot of spine rubbed traces of adhesive at foot of front wrapper contents toned but clean: a very good copy. unknown
1870- Alger s.d. (circa 1870), Album : 13x17cm / photographies : 6,3x10,4cm, 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album. - Photographic album containing 28 portraits of Algerians finely enhanced with watercolour Algiers [ca 1870] | Album: 13 x 17 cm / photographs: 6.3 x 10.4 cm | 28 carte de visite portraits in an album Photographic album comprising 28 photograph portraits, in contemporary albumen print, pasted on card in carte-de-visite format. These photographs, well contrasted and finely enhanced with watercolour at the time, are of great intensity: the models stare at the photographer's lens with pride and nobility. Binding in full black grained leather, metal clasp, all edges gilt. Rubbing. Superb photographic testimony by one of the first European photographers established in Algeria. A Swiss expatriate in Algeria, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) was immersed in photography from childhood. In 1852, his mother joined forces with Antoine Alary, one of the pioneers of Algerian photography; together they founded a studio which lasted until 1867, when Jean Geiser took charge. Initially specialising in portraits of the city's European bourgeois, the photographer quickly understood the city's interest for folk images. These rare and magnificent "typical" portraits, depicting all the layers of the indigenous populations - from street children to caïd - are today sought after for their ethnographic value, testimony of an Algeria at the dawn of colonisation. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Album photographique constitué de 28 portraits photographiques, en tirage albuminé d'époque, contrecollés sur des cartons au format carte de visite. Ces photographies, bien contrastées et finement rehaussées à l'aquarelle, sont d'une grande intensité : les modèles y fixent avec fierté et noblesse l'objectif du photographe. Reliure en plein cuir noir grainé, fermoir de métal, toutes tranches dorées. Frottements. Superbe témoignage photographique par l'un des premiers photographes européens établis en Algérie. Suisse expatrié en Algérie, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) a baigné dans la photographie depuis son enfance. En 1852, sa mère s'associe à Antoine Alary, l'un des pionniers de la photographie algérienne ; ensemble ils fondent un studio qui perdurera jusqu'en 1867 date à laquelle Jean Geiser prendra sa direction. D'abord spécialisé dans les portraits de bourgeois européens de la ville, le photographe comprend bien vite l'intérêt de la métropole pour les images folkloriques. Ces rares et magnifiques portraits « types », dépeignant toutes les couches de la population indigène - de l'enfant des rues au caïd - sont aujourd'hui recherchés pour leur valeur ethnographique, témoignage d'une Algérie à l'aube de la colonisation.
1870- Alger s.d. (circa 1870), Album : 13x17cm / photographies : 6,3x10,4cm, 28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album. - Photographic album containing 28 portraits of Algerians finely enhanced with watercolour Algiers [ca 1870] | Album: 13 x 17 cm / photographs: 6.3 x 10.4 cm | 28 carte de visite portraits in an album Photographic album comprising 28 photograph portraits, in contemporary albumen print, pasted on card in carte-de-visite format. These photographs, well contrasted and finely enhanced with watercolour at the time, are of great intensity: the models stare at the photographer's lens with pride and nobility. Binding in full black grained leather, metal clasp, all edges gilt. Rubbing. Superb photographic testimony by one of the first European photographers established in Algeria. A Swiss expatriate in Algeria, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) was immersed in photography from childhood. In 1852, his mother joined forces with Antoine Alary, one of the pioneers of Algerian photography; together they founded a studio which lasted until 1867, when Jean Geiser took charge. Initially specialising in portraits of the city's European bourgeois, the photographer quickly understood the city's interest for folk images. These rare and magnificent "typical" portraits, depicting all the layers of the indigenous populations - from street children to caïd - are today sought after for their ethnographic value, testimony of an Algeria at the dawn of colonisation. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Album photographique constitué de 28 portraits photographiques, en tirage albuminé d'époque, contrecollés sur des cartons au format carte de visite. Ces photographies, bien contrastées et finement rehaussées à l'aquarelle, sont d'une grande intensité : les modèles y fixent avec fierté et noblesse l'objectif du photographe. Reliure en plein cuir noir grainé, fermoir de métal, toutes tranches dorées. Frottements. Superbe témoignage par l'un des premiers photographes européens établis en Algérie. Suisse expatrié en Algérie, Jean Geiser (1848-1923) a baigné dans la photographie depuis son enfance. En 1852, sa mère s'associe à Antoine Alary, l'un des pionniers de la photographie algérienne ; ensemble ils fondent un studio qui perdurera jusqu'en 1867 date à laquelle Jean Geiser prendra sa direction. D'abord spécialisé dans les portraits de bourgeois européens de la ville, le photographe comprend bien vite l'intérêt de la métropole pour les images folkloriques. Ces rares et magnifiques portraits « types », dépeignant toutes les couches de la population indigène - de l'enfant des rues au caïd - sont aujourd'hui recherchés pour leur valeur ethnographique, témoignage d'une Algérie à l'aube de la colonisation.
1833ref. 365677Ottoman lands 1833. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Leather wallet binding with fore edge guard boards decorated with a shamsa motif in blind top edge marked in ink "Sharh al-Shatibi". A bit shaken textblock loose in binding very good overall. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Ibn al-QÄsıh 1316-1399 C.E. an eminent scholar of Qira'at and Islamic textual transmission was born in Baghdad and studied in Egypt where he mastered the ten canonical recitations 'ashara. He later became a renowned instructor at Madânî Mosque where he taught many scholars. His works particularly Siraj al-QÄriʾal-mubtadî wa Tadhkar al-Muqriʾal-mutahi are critical to the tradition of Qira'at pedagogy. This manuscript is an early nineteenth-century copy of a standard work an extensive and detailed commentary on al-Shatıbi's Ḥırz al-Amani a foundational text in the science of Qur'anic recitation. While al-Shatıbi's work is a didactic poem that systematically presents the rules of Qira'at this commentary expands upon its meanings with in-depth linguistic grammatical and recitational analyses providing a comprehensive exegesis that was widely studied by advanced scholars. The presence of extensive marginal annotations suggests active scholarly engagement making this manuscript an invaluable resource for the study of classical Qira'at methodologies and textual transmission. A significant scholarly manuscript offering a deeply analytical and authoritative commentary on one of the most important texts in the Qira'at tradition. unknown
1833ref. 365677Ottoman lands 1833. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Leather wallet binding with fore edge guard boards decorated with a shamsa motif in blind top edge marked in ink "Sharh al-Shatibi". A bit shaken textblock loose in binding very good overall. Ink on thick burnished paper 21 lines per page in Levantine-style script in black ink with headings and occasional passages in red ink dated A.H. 1249 = C.E. 1833. 448 pp. The first few pages extensively annotated in margins in a later scholarly hand with numerous doodles and pen starts on last leaves. 1 vols. 8vo 8 x 6 inches. Ibn al-QÄsıh 1316-1399 C.E. an eminent scholar of Qira'at and Islamic textual transmission was born in Baghdad and studied in Egypt where he mastered the ten canonical recitations 'ashara. He later became a renowned instructor at Madânî Mosque where he taught many scholars. His works particularly Siraj al-QÄriʾal-mubtadî wa Tadhkar al-Muqriʾal-mutahi are critical to the tradition of Qira'at pedagogy. This manuscript is an early nineteenth-century copy of a standard work an extensive and detailed commentary on al-Shatıbi's Ḥırz al-Amani a foundational text in the science of Qur'anic recitation. While al-Shatıbi's work is a didactic poem that systematically presents the rules of Qira'at this commentary expands upon its meanings with in-depth linguistic grammatical and recitational analyses providing a comprehensive exegesis that was widely studied by advanced scholars. The presence of extensive marginal annotations suggests active scholarly engagement making this manuscript an invaluable resource for the study of classical Qira'at methodologies and textual transmission. A significant scholarly manuscript offering a deeply analytical and authoritative commentary on one of the most important texts in the Qira'at tradition. unknown books
1678in-4. pp.16,358,4. Perg. Coeva. un legno nel testo con la sorgente del Nilo.
ref. 37970London: H.S. Nichols Ltd. 1897. . Limited Library edition one of 570 sets and one of only a few sets issued in the publisher’s full morocco bindings set of twelve volumes full brown bevelled morocco with lavishly decorated boards in gilt gilt decorations to spine five raised bands inner dentelles gilt t.e.g. patterned endpapers b/w frontispiece portrait to first volume b/w plates with caption-sheets; neat ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper and to front free endpaper verso light wear to leather at extremities a very good set. London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1897. hardcover
ref. 66237Khenchara Lebanon: Monastery of St John the Baptist 1787. 8vo. 17 x 10 cm. pp. x735. Contemporary russet morocco binding floral decoration stamped in blind on back and front spine with raised bands manuscript title-label in Arabic stuck to the top of the spine. A number of small engravings including one of the nativity head- and tail-pieces. Edges and corners rubbed small area of water damage to back board; internally there is some occasional light water-staining and foxing. Generally very good. This is the second impression of a Horologion printed in Arabic at the press established in 1734 at the Monastery of St John the Baptist in Khenchara by Abdallah Zakhir. It contains the breviary hymns and prayers for the Byzantine rite printed in black and red Arabic script. Khenchara, Lebanon: Monastery of St John the Baptist, 1787. hardcover
