The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with explanatory notes, taken from the most approved commentators. To which is prefixed a preliminary discourse. By George Sale, gent.
George Sale (1697-1736)
Category
Books
Date
1734
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3019025
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], iii-ix, [3], 187, [1], 508, [16] p., [5] leaves of plates (4 folded) : ill., map ; 4to. Running number: 2800. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark: "1.E.15". Manuscript initial "M." on front fly-leaf [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge style full calf, blind-tooled to a panel design; gilt roll on board edges; gilt title label on spine: Al Koran.
Makers and roles
George Sale (1697-1736), translator