Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet

Full title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Translaté d'arabe en françois. Par le Sievr dv Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair.

Short Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1647)

Title in English

The Qurʾān of Mahomet, translated from Arabic into French by Mr. Du Ryer, Lord of the Garde Malezair.

Printer

Chez ANTOINE DE SOMMAVULLE, Au Palais dans la Salle des Merciers, à l'Escu de France.

Released place

Paris

Released date

1647

Author

André Du Ryer

Language

592

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

All

Pages

viii; 648 [i.e., 598]; v

Further notes

Paratext: Before main text of the Qurʾān: "AV LECTEUR." (sigs. ē1r-v); "SOMMAIRE / DE LA RELIGION / DES TVRCS" (sigs. ēijr-ēiiiv); "Fautes suruenuës en l'impression." After main text of the Qurʾān: Attention of Consul of Marseille to André Du Ryer; "TRADVCTION DV COMMANDEMENT du Grand Seigneur".

Sources

Arabic Type

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Alastair Hamilton and Francis Richard, André Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France (London: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2004).

Individuals

André Du Ryer (Translator)

Descriptive card

This is the first edition of the French translation of the Qurʾān by André Du Ryer from the Arabic text. The format is quarto.

Entry author

Kentaro Inagaki