Title

Tria Specimina Characterum Arabicorum, Petri Kirstenii Vratisl. Phil. et medic. Doctoris. Sive Oratio Domini nistri Jesu Christi, quâ, nulla ardentior exaudita est, in coelo & in terrâ, quam describit S. Johannes, cap. 17. ex vetusto codice manu-scripto Arabico Caesario, transcripta. Et Regii Davidis Psalmus Quinquagesimus, vel secundùm Hebraeos, Quinquagesimus Primus. Ac Tandem. Primum Sūratu [Arabic] Suuretu, libri vulgò, Alkoran dicti, quod nonnulli Symbolum Mahhummedicum vocant, ex collatione sex Exemplarium manuscriptorum, editum

Full title

Short Title

Tria Specimina Characterum Arabicorum

Title in English

Three samples of Arabic letters by Petrus Kirstenius of Breslau, doctor of philosophy and medicine. Or: The Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ, a more ardent prayer than which has never been heard either on earth or in heaven, which John reports in chapter 17, transcribed from an ancient Arabic manuscript in the Imperial collection. And King David’s Psalm number fifty, or fifty-one according to the Hebrews. And further, the first Surah of the book commonly known as Alkoran, which many call the Mohammedan confession of faith, edited from a collation of six manuscript exemplars

Printer

Baumann

Released place

Wroclaw

Released date

1608

Author

Peter Kirstenius

Language

1253

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

1

Pages

14

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Individuals

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11129544?page=14,

Descriptive card

The Arabic types were designed and paid for by Kirstenius. This slim volume with three short Arabic texts was clearly meant to showcase this new typographical tool -- and the author's credentials as an Arabist. The year of publication is cited thus on the title page: Anno GerManI ArabIae stVDIa Captent (In the year: May the Germans take up the study of Arabia), i.e. MIIVDIC=MDCVIII (1608).

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov