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Kitab al-Amthal. Seu Proverbiorum Arabicorum Centuriae Duae. ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectæ & explicatæ. Cum interpretatione Latina et scholiis. Leiden, Raphalengius, 1614. In-8 contemporary vellum. Title (6)-126 p. Schnurrer 216. Philologia Orientalis 267. Old light staining, a few scattered spots, binding worn. First edition. A collection of 200 Arabic proverbs, anonymously compiled by the Muslim jurist Abu Ubaid al-Qasim Ibn Sallam, edited in Arabic, translated into Latin and commented by Joseph Justus Scaliger and Thomas Erpenius, dedicated to Isaac Casaubonus. This work is a milestone in the history of Western Arabic studies. The edition of these proverbs took a long time to crystallize. Originally, the Arabic text was acquired in Rome by the French scholar Florens Christianus, who asked a Lebanese Arab to translate the text into Latin. He then gave the work to Casaubonus at whose instigation the Dutch scholar Adrian Willemsz and after his untimely death, Scaliger began a revision, which was eventually published by Erpenius.
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Kitab al-Amthal. Seu Proverbiorum Arabicorum Centuriae Duae. ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectæ & explicatæ. Cum interpretatione Latina et scholiis. Leiden, Raphalengius, 1614. In-8 contemporary vellum. Title (6)-126 p. Schnurrer 216. Philologia Orientalis 267. Old light staining, a few scattered spots, binding worn. First edition. A collection of 200 Arabic proverbs, anonymously compiled by the Muslim jurist Abu Ubaid al-Qasim Ibn Sallam, edited in Arabic, translated into Latin and commented by Joseph Justus Scaliger and Thomas Erpenius, dedicated to Isaac Casaubonus. This work is a milestone in the history of Western Arabic studies. The edition of these proverbs took a long time to crystallize. Originally, the Arabic text was acquired in Rome by the French scholar Florens Christianus, who asked a Lebanese Arab to translate the text into Latin. He then gave the work to Casaubonus at whose instigation the Dutch scholar Adrian Willemsz and after his untimely death, Scaliger began a revision, which was eventually published by Erpenius.
