Al-'Ahd al-jadid li-Rabbina Yasu' al-Masih Novum D.N. Iesu Christi Testamentum Arabice. Ex Bibliotheca Leidensi. Edente Thoma Erpenio.
Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624)
Category
Books
Date
1616
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094662
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 648 p. ; 4to. Running number: 2672. Provenance: manuscript initial on front and rear fly-leaves: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaves: "ζ'." [i.e. zeta' = Greek number 7]. Manuscript code on front fly-leaf: "G/A". Manuscript code on half-title: "m/f". Manuscript inscription in Arabic with cipher on recto of half-title, reading in translation: "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is one. Amen". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; gilt roll on board edges; gilt title label on spine. Blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624), editor Frans Raphelengius (1568-1643), editor Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624), publisher