Geoffrey Roper, Arabic Printing and Publishing in England before 1820; Gerald J. Toomer, John Selden. A Life in Scholarship, Oxford, OUP, 2009, p. 253 et 601.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of the translation by John Selden. Issue bearing the name of the booksellers Thomas & Richard Wittacker on the title page (another issue is know without their names). Selden made this work “the first Arabic text (as distinct from isolated quotations) published in England in 1642” (Dmitri Levitin, in: Ancient Wisom in the Age of New Science, CUP, 2015).<\/p>\n
The work also uses the specific Arabic type face, that Sleden had used only once before for the printing of Mare clausum<\/i> in 1635.<\/p>\n
“Parmi les domaines du droit abord\u00e9s par John Selden, celui des institutions religieuses a particuli\u00e8rement retenu son attention. S\u2019il a trait\u00e9, \u00e0 la jonction de l\u2019\u00e9rudition et des probl\u00e8mes de son temps, des sujets concernant surtout son pays, les textes et les institutions h\u00e9bra\u00efques ainsi que l\u2019antiquit\u00e9 syrienne, un livre pourrait para\u00eetre marginal par rapport \u00e0 ces grands domaines. En 1642, il publie \u00e0 Londres un extrait du Nazm al-zawhar de Sa\u2019id ibn Batriq (877-940), qui fut patriarche d\u2019Alexandrie, et dont le nom a \u00e9t\u00e9 latinis\u00e9 en Eutychius. Si l\u2019on excepte la tentative du maronite Jean Ibn Quriaqos-Sanduq, avant 1625, qui n\u2019a pas abouti, Selden est le premier \u00e0 \u00e9diter et traduire cet auteur. Apr\u00e8s une pr\u00e9face, Selden publie en douze pages, sur deux colonnes, l\u2019original arabe et sa traduction latine, accompagn\u00e9e d\u2019un long commentaire de cent quatre-vingt quatre pages, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 sous la forme de notes au texte principal. Il s\u2019appuie sur un manuscrit de Robert Cotton et sur un autre qu\u2019il poss\u00e8de. Gerald Toomer a fait remarquer l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat profond et constant que Selden porta \u00e0 Eutychius, cit\u00e9 dans nombre de ses ouvrages ” (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gabriel, L’ordo alexandrin. Sa’id ibn Batriq, Selden, et la hierarchie ecclesiale. de l’Orient chr\u00e9tien \u00e0 l’eccl\u00e9siologie primitive, vol. III, p. 2011).<\/p>\n
Of important provenance having belonged to Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), member of the French Academy of Science and to Charles-Ferdinand Lelarge (1691?-1769), professor at the Sorbonne. Fine copy, margin of the title page with old restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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