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edidit Carolus Johannes Tornberg., "Ex Actis Regiae societatis scientiarum Upsaliensis, ton. xi.", Second edition (first published in 1832). Part of the popular and influential mediaeval chronicle of Morocco, "Kitab al-Anis al-Mutrib bi-Rawd al-Qirtas fi Akbar Muluk al-Maghrib wa-taj ay Tarich madinat Fas" ("The Entertaining Companion Book in the Garden of Pages from the Chronicle of the Kings of Morocco and the History of the City of Fes"), usually referred to as "Rawd al-Qirtas" (Garden of Pages). The work, containing numerous references to the Spanish and Algerian parts of the Moroccan empire, is said to have been commissioned by the Marinid Sultan Abu Said Uthman II; the author is commonly stated as the scholar Ali ibn Abdallah Ibn-Abi-Zar al-Fasi (d. c. 1320/40?) from Fes. - A part-translation (in German) was already published in Zagreb in 1794-97. This present fragmentary edition, separately published from the Proceedings of the Uppsala Academy of Sciences, was prepared by Carl Johann Tornberg (1807-77), de Sacy's student and the first Swedish Arabist proper (cf. Fück 199). In 1843-46 he issued his first complete edition of the text, which long remained the only one to meet modern editorial standards: "A critical version of the Arabic text, utilizing all the manuscript versions then available, was published by Tornberg [...], and this is generally used as a basis for modern Arabic versions. Tornberg also gave a Latin translation. A French translation was published in 1860 by Beaumier but is based on fewer manuscripts and is considered faulty by modern standards" (Wikipedia). - Foxed throughout; edges slightly bumped., Main Heritage Shelves General, DT319 .I263 1839, Book, Item-ID: i23721649, BIB-ID: 1509206 |
