4to. x, [1], 334 pp., [1 errata], Spanish & Arabic text, double column per page, contemporary marbled calf, title lettered in gold on spine, marbled endpaper, lightly browned, otherwise in good condition, Imprenta Y Fundicion de Manuel Tello, Madrid, first edition, 1889.

Synopsis

Inscribed by the author on half-title page. Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of Madrid. Francisco Guillén Robles (1846 – 1926) was a lawyer, writer and Spanish historian. From 1870 onwards he dedicated himself to advocacy at the same time as extending his research on history, and in 1873 began to publish “History of Malaga and its province”, which would become worth the entrance to the Royal Academy of History and his appointment later as a chronicler Honorific for the city of Malaga.
His work as an Arabist began to be known with the publication of Malaga Musulmaná in 1880 and for his participation in the Vth International Congress of Orientalists held in Berlin a year later. In 1883 he settled in Madrid to work in the National Library, where he would prepare his work Leyendas moriscas. A major bibliography, it describes 606 Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of Spain, including some Aljamiados (Spanish written in Arabic letters) indexed by author, title and subject.
Bibliographic reference: Palau 110 882.