- Alphabetum Arabicum.
- Curatorial Note:
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- Printed by the Medici Press in 1592, this book teaches the reader the Arabic alphabet, pronunciation, and grammar. Following this section are Arabic sentences, the study of which is aided by Latin explanation and translation. The last section of this book is devoted to a Syriac grammar, with similar explanations of the alphabet, grammar, and sentences. The Syriac passages at the end of this book are translated into Latin and Hebrew.
- Collections:
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- Early Arabic printed works
- Treasures of Rare Book Division
- Printed Rare Books at PUL
- Language:
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- Latin
- Extent:
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- 64 p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
- Format:
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- Book
- Description:
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- 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".
- Subject:
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- Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
- Type and type-founding—Italy—Rome
- Printing—Italy—Rome—Specimens
- Arabic type—Specimens
- Type specimens
- Stamped corrections
- Alternative:
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- Alphabetvm Arabicvm.
- Provenance:
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- 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.
- Created:
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- 1592-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1592
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/79408220p
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Publisher:
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- Romae : In Typographia Medicea, 1592.
- Binding note:
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- 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.
- References:
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- Schnurrer, C.F. Bib. Arabica, 41.
- Adams, A-780.
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 36.
- Binder:
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- Bourbeau, David
- Thistle Bindery
- Former owner:
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- Chauncy, Isaac, 1632-1712
- Printer:
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- Tipografia medicea orientale
- View in catalog:
- Relation:
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- Multi-title collection including Syriacae linguae prima elementa = Ṭablītā d-eskīmā d-ātwātā ... : [quibus adiectae sunt preces] and 1 other(s).