|
Description
|
Cum notis ad res exoticas sive Orientales, quæ in iis occurrunt ; Opera Jacobi Golii = Kitāb Muḥammad b. Katīr al-Farġānī fī al-Ḥarakāt al-samāwiyya wa-ǧawāmiʻ ʻilm al-nuǧūm / bi-tafsīr al-šayk al-fāḍil Yaʻqūb Ġūliyūs., ALFRAGANUS. Elementa astronomica, Arabice & Latine. Cum notis ad res exoticas sive orientales, que in iis occurrunt. Opera Jacobi Golii. Amsterdam, Johannes Janson and the widow of Elizei Weyerstaet, 1669 8vo. 1lea. (bind) + 1tit. + 1 + 3 pref. + 7 index + 2 + 109 (arabic text) + 1tit. (arabic) + 109 + 3 + 306 + 20 (index) + 2 + 1lea. (bind.), title printed in red and black in Arabic and Latin, text of Alfraganus spearately in Arabic and Latin, followed by the Latin commentary of Golius interspersed with Arabic; inscription in Greek on title; a fine copy in contemporary vellum Golius was student of of Thomas Erpenius at Leiden. He worked as a language professor (in France) and Leiden University. Latter he travelled to Levant and Arabia to collect Arabic manuscripts which enabled him to prepare several important works like the first Arabic - Latin Dictionary and a catalogue of the oriental manuscripts in Leiden University. Houzeau & Lancaster 1113 ("des notes copieuses et importantes ... cette edition est la plus importante et le meilleur"); Lalande p. 272; Sarton I, p. 567; Schnurrer 402; not in Carmody., Boek ook bekend o.d.t.: Ǧawāmiʻ fī ʻilm al-nuǧūm., Main Heritage Shelves General, QB41 .F37 1669, Book, Item-ID: i10087084, BIB-ID: 1010344 |
|
Format
|
print, 12 unnumbered pages, 109 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 306 pages, 20 unnumbered pages ; in-4., unmediated, volume |
