Lot 43
Qur'an
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Mohammedis filii Abdaliae pseudo-prophetae fides islamatica, Al-Coranus ex idiomate arabico … latine versus per Ludovicum Marraccium .. et ex eiusdem animadversionibus aliorumque observationibus illustratus et expositus, praemissa brevi introductione et totius religionis Mohammedicae synopis … cura et opera M. Christiani Reineccii .. Leipzig: sumpt. Lanckisianis, 1721. 8vo., title-page in red and black, original vellum which has been recovered in cloth (now fraying), lower inner joint broken, some general paper discolouration throughout
Footnote
Note: First edition of this edition of the Qur'an in Leipzig., with notes by the oriental scholar Lodovico Marracci who had been responsible for the Padua edition of 1698 and who was a Professor at the Sapienza in Rome. The introductory chapters on the history of the Qur'an, the life of the Prophet and the synoposis of the Mohammedan faith are by Christianus Reineccius.