(ISLAM) DU RYER
The Alcoran of Mohammed
ed. Antoine de Sommaville, 1651
Translate from Arabic into French, by the sieur du Ryer.
Small in-12, bound in parchment
Du Ryer was a famous orientalist linguist who lived in Alexandria as a French consul. He was the first European to translate the Koran from Arabic texts. There was no complete translation of the Koran in the West before him.
