Qur'an
£264
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Corani textus arabicus … recensuit indicesque triginta sectionum et Suraturm addidit Gustavus Fluegel … editio stereoptypa tertium emendata. Leipzig: typis et sumptibus Caroli Tauhnitii, 1858. 4to., text in Arabic, original quarter cloth, paper boards, worn, crudely rebacked, inner joints broken with contents loose; Flugel, Gustav Concordantiae coranu arabicae ad literarum ordinem et verborum radices diligenter disposuit Gusavus Flugel. Editio stereotypa Leipzig: sumpt. Et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1842 (2)
Footnote
Note: First issued in 1835, this edition of the Koran was prepared by the German orientalist Gustav Leberecht Fluegel (1802-1870) who was chiefly employed as a cataloguer of oriental manuscripts in the Imperial Library at Vienna. While Fluegel's edition became one of the standard texts used by scholars, it had the defect of employing a verse numbering system which was not in accordance with general use in the Muslim world.