Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet

Full title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Translaté d'Arabe en François, Par le Sieur du Ryer; Sieur de la Garde Malezair.

Short Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1672, Paris)

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 Sommaville

Released place

Paris

Released date

1672

Author

André Du Ryer

Language

598

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

All

Pages

xii; 486; iv

Further notes

Paratext: Before main text of the Qurʾān: "AU LECTEUR" (sigs. *2r-*3v); "SOMMAIRE DE LA RELIGION DES TURCS." (sigs. *4r-*7v). After main text of the Qurʾān: Attention of Consul of Marseille to André Du Ryer (sigs. X4r-v); "Traduction du Commandement du Grand Seigneur." (sigs. X5r-v).

Sources

André Du Ryer's French translation of the Qurʾān (1647).

Arabic Type

Arabic type is used on sig. *5r.

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. 126; 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); Antoine de Sommaville (Printer).

Descriptive card

This is an edition of the French translation of the Qurʾān by André Du Ryer in duodecimo format. The title page bears "Avec Privilage du Roy".

Entry author

Kentaro Inagaki