(ISLAM) DU RYER L'Alcoran de Mahomet ed. Antoine de Sommaville, 1651 Translate from Arabic into French, by the sieur du Ryer. Small in-12, bound in parchment Du Ryer, is 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.

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