Small 4to. [10], 181 pp., Latin and Arabic text edited by Albert Schultens, half-calf with marbled boards, professionally rebacked spine, occasional spotting, previous owner’s inscription verso front cover, small ink stamps on title page and front endpaper, small label on front fly leaf, Ex Officina W. Bleck, Franekuerae, first edition, 1731.

Synopsis

First edition of more than one of the well-known Maqâmât or Sessions of al-Harîrî, published by the Leiden Arabist Albertus Schultens (1686-1740) while he held the post of the first Interpres Legati Warneriani. He was appointed to the post in Leiden, together with a teaching post as a lector of Oriental languages, in 1729, thereby ending his Professorship at the University of Franeker. It seems that Schultens’s predecessor J. Heyman had already started work on this edition, but seemingly had not made any progress. In 1732 Schultens was appointed professor at the University of Leiden. The translation of the first Consessus is by Golius, as published in his edition of Erpenius’s grammar of 1656. In 1740 Schultens published the second part (in all six Sessions, out of 50), together with a selection of texts on pre-Islamic Arabia (Monumenta vetustiora Arabiae).
Bibliographic references: Schnürrer 230, 231 & 211; Zenker BOi, 766. (Monumenta); Lambrecht 1540.