Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet

Full title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit de l'arabe, Par André du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair. Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée. Des Observastions Historiques & Critiques sur le Mahometise, ou Traduction du Discours préliminaire mis à la tête de la Version Angloise de l'Alcoran, publiée par George Sale.

Short Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1770)

Title in English

The Qurʾān of Mahomet, translated from Arabic into French by Mr. Du Ryer, Lord of the Garde Malezair. New edition with revision, correction, and addition. Historical and critical observations on the Muhammedanism, or Translation of the preliminary discourse attached to the beginning of the English version of the Qurʾān by George Sale.

Printer

Ches Arkstée & Merkus

Released place

Amsterdam, Leipzig

Released date

1770

Author

André Du Ryer; George Sale

Language

595

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

All

Pages

2 vols; vol 1: [1]; xviii; [1]; 472; vol 2: ii; 476

Further notes

Paratext in vol 1: Before main text of the Qurʾān: "AU LECTEUR." (sigs. *2r-v); "SOMMAIRE DE LA RELIGION DES TURCS" (sigs. *3r-*5r); "LETTRE DES CONSULS DE MARSEILLE A M. ANDRE DU RYER, A Constantinople" (sig. *5v); "CERTIFICAT DES CONSULS DE LA MEME VILLE" (sig. *6r); "TRADUCTION DU COMMANDEMENT DU GRAND SEIGNEUR" (sigs. *6v-*7r); "TABLE DES SECTIONS" (sigs. *7v-*8r); "TABLE DES CHAPITRES DE L'ALCORAN" (sigs. *8r-*9v); Maps; "OBSERVATIONS HISTORIQUES ET CRITIQUES SUR LE MAHOMETISME" (pp. 1-378).

Sources

L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1647); George Sale's Preliminary Discourse to his English translation of the Qurʾān (1734).

Arabic Type

Arabic type is used on sig. *3v.

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Victor Chauvin, Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes ou relatifs aux arabes: publiés dans l'Europe chrétienne de 1810-1885 (Liège: Imp. H. Vaillant-Garmanne; Leipzig: Chez O. Harrassowitz, 1907), p. 128; 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), p. 110.

Individuals

André Du Ryer (Translator); George Sale (Author of the Preliminary Discourse).

Descriptive card

This is an edition of the French translation of the Qurʾān by André Du Ryer in duodecimo format. The frontispiece is by van der Laan (cf., Hamilton and Richard, André Du Ryer, p. 110). The French translation of George Sale's Preliminary Discourse occupies most pages of the first volume.

Entry author

Kentaro Inagaki