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Tārīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal = Historia compendiosa dynastiarum authore Gregorio Abul-Pharajio ; historiam complectens universalem, â mundo condito, usque ad tempora authoris, res orientalium accuratissimè describens / Arabice edita & Latine versa ab Eduardo Pocockio.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection ArC G8617 663h
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286.
- Standardized Title:
- Tārīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal Latin & Arabic
- تاريخ مختصر الدول. لاتيني وعربي
- Language:
- Arabic
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Middle East--History--Early works to 1800.
- Arab countries--History--Early works to 1800.
- World history--Early works to 1800.
- World history.
- Islamic Empire--History--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic Empire.
- Arab countries.
- Middle East.
- Penn Provenance:
- Le Conte, John (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 368 pages, 80 unnumbered pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 565 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 66 pages ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Historia compendiosa dynastiarum
- Fingerprint:
- m,ud m.b- toco Islo (3) 1663 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxoniae : Excudebat H. Hall celeberrimae academiae typographus, impensis Ric. Davis, MDCLXIII [1663]
- Language Note:
- Latin text and notes followed by Arabic text.
- Notes:
- Arabic at head of title.
- A translation into Latin, by Edward Pococke, of : Bar Hebraeus, Gregory Abû'l Faraj. Taʻrīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal. Arabic text follows Latin translation.
- "Supplementum Historiae dynastiarum:" has separate dated title page, pagination and register. Imprint has "excudebat Henricus Hall Academiae typographus ...".
- The Arabic version has special title page printed from the same setting of type as the main title, and separate paging and signatures. The text reads from back to front. The title page of the Arabic version was printed as leaf A4 of the "Supplementum" which follows.
- Signatures: *⁴ [fleuron]² A-3K⁴, ²A-4B⁴ (4b4 blank), ³A-K⁴(K4 blank).
- Errata in Latin version: leaf 3K4r; in Arabic version: leaves 3K1v-3K3v.
- Printer's device on title pages; woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has ms. bibliographic note on front free endpaper.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full parchment; title in ms. on spine; all edges speckled red and blue.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has the autograph of John Le Conte on title page.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 misbound: leaves B1-K4 of the "Supplementum" are bound following leaf [fleuron]2 of the first part. Leaves A1-A4 of the "Supplementum" are bound at end, with the special title page of the arabic version (A4) conjugate with the title page of the "Supplementum", as printed.
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) G2024
- Madan III, 2629
- ESTC R31735
- Wright, Syriac Lit., p. 268-81
- Contains:
- Supplementum Historiae dynastiarum.
- OCLC:
- 606109303
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