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This volume is the unique edition of this early Persian-English poetry anthology, containing selected texts of some fables together with fragments of well-known Persian poets such as Enveri, Daqiqi, Jami, Saadi, Ammar, Shirazi, Rashid al-Din , Firdawsi and Rudegi. It is atributed to Stürmer who prepared the collection during his studies at Viennas Oriental Academy, although the work is also attributed to Bernhard Jenisch., in Latinvm translata ac Mariae Theresiae Avgvstae honoribvs dicata a Caesarea Regia Lingarvm Orientalivm Academia., Several handwriting notes on the title page and at the margin of the text., Main Heritage Shelves General, PK629 .A58 1778, Book, Item-ID: i19660200, BIB-ID: 1779918, Text in Persian and translation in Latin, From the library of the great Königsberg Oriental scholar Peter van Bohlen (1796-1840) with his notes and underlinings in black and auburn ink throughout. His autogr. ownership on the title page is dated "Halle 1821", marking this as an early acquisition of scholarly literature by the former tailors apprentice, batman, ships scullion, waiter, and footboy after having graduated from the Hamburg Johanneum in 1821. Later in the collection of the Dresden mathematician and librarian Carl Kuschel (1814-99); his autogr. ownership on t. p.; his acquisition note on pastedown: "Hocce Bohlenii exemplar im meam migravit bibliothecam die 10mo Aprilis 1844 (constat 15 gr. arg.)". Subsequently in the collection of the Halle historian and orientalist Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg (1826-1907); his autogr. ownership on t. p. Sold by Harrassowitz to the Zurich printer and publisher Friedrich Paul David Bürkli (1818-96) in 1895, a year before his death (his autogr. ownership to t. p.; his bookplate on pastedown). Bürkli took an avid interest in the history and culture of the orient and amassed a vast library on the subject. His collection, numbering some 1500 titles, passed almost entirely to the Zurich Municipal Library (now in the Zurich Central Library). |
