OBICINI,Thomas. Grammatica Arabica. Agrumia appellata. Cum versione Latina, ac dilucida expositione. Rome, Congregationis de Propag.Fide 1631
Octavo, contemporary vellum, (12) + (2) errata + 2 blank leaves + 286pp, Arabic and Latin text, title with printers circular woodcut device, old library stamp of Libreria Colonna, a few stains and and some leaves browned.
Fourth printing of this native grammar Agurrumiya, after the editions of the Medicean Press in 1592, Kirsten in 1610, and Erpenius in 1617. Thomas Obicini (1585-1632) from Novara, was abbot of the Franciscan convent at Aleppo. In 1621 he returned to Rome and became first lector of Arabic in the St Peter Convent. He was responsible for the supervision of the type designs of Oriental types at the Propaganda Press. The author warns the reader against irregularities in the text, owing to the difficulties in printing Arabic texts, and the new type. The Propaganda Press was founded in 1622 and in 1626 a true printing house was established together with a foundry named after the Congregatio. To its stock were added exotic types from the Stamperia Vaticana. The Press printed missals, grammars, dictionaries and Alphabeta.
Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica, 63. Graf IV 175. Lambrecht 601. Brill, Philologia Orientalis, II, 222.
£600
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