Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet

Full title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit de l'arabe, Par André du Ryer, Sieur de la Garde Malezair. Avec la traduction des Observations Historiques & Critiques sue le Mahometisme, mises à la tête de la Version Angloise de M. George Sale. Nouvelle Edition. Qu'on a augmentée d'un Discours Preliminaire, extrait du nouvel Ouvrage Anglois de Mr. Porter, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de S. M. Britannique en Turquie.

Short Title

L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1775)

Title in English

The Qurʾān of Mahomet, translated from Arabic into French by Mr. Du Ryer, Lord of the Garde Malezair. With the translation of the Historical and Critical Observations on the Muhammedanism attached to the beginning of the English version Mr. George Sale. In addition to that a Preliminary Discourse taken from a new work in English by Mr. Porter, Plenipotentiary Minister of Britain in Turkey.

Printer

Ches Arkstée & Merkus

Released place

Amsterdam, Leipzig

Released date

1775

Author

André Du Ryer, George Sale, Sir James Parker

Language

605

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

All

Pages

2 vols; vol 1: xlvi; 472; vol. 2: [1]; 476.

Further notes

Paratext in vol 1: Before main text of the Qurʾān: "AU LECTEUR" (sigs. *r-v); "SOMMAIRE DE LA RELIGION DES TURCS" (sigs. *2r-*3v); "LETTRE DES CONSULS DE MARSEILLE A M. ANDRE' DU RYER, A Constantinople." (sig. *4r); "CERTIFICAT DES CONSULS DE LA MEME VILLE" (sig. *4v); "TRADUCTION DU COMMANDEMENT DU GRANDE SEIGNEUR" (sigs. *5r-v); "DISCOURS PRELIMINAIRE. SUR LA RELIGION DES MAHOMETANS LEUR PELERINAGE A LA MECQUE, LEURS SECTES, &c. Extrait de l'ouvrage Anglois de MR. PORTER, qui a paru depuis peu." (pp. xi-xlvi); "TABLE DES SECTIONS, Contenues dans les OBSERVATIONS, HISTORIQUES ET CRITIQUES SUR LE MAHOMETISME." (pp. xlvii-xlviii); "TABLE DES CHAPITRES DE L'ALCORAN, Contenus dans le TOME I." (p. xlviii); "TOME SECOND." (pp. xlix-lii); Map of the Arabian Peninsula; "OBSERVATIONS HISTORIQUES ET CRITIQUES SUE LE MAHOMETISME." (pp. 1-378).

Sources

L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1647); George Sale's Preliminary Discourse to his English translation of the Qurʾān (1734); Sir James Parker's Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners of the Turks (1768); L'Alcoran de Mahomet (1770).

Arabic Type

Arabic type is used on sig. *2v.

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 Historical and Critical Observations on Mahometanism); Sir James Parker (Author of the Preliminary Discourse)

Descriptive card

This is a new edition of the French translation of the Qurʾān by André Du Ryer in duodecimo format. Based on the 1770 edition, the publisher added a French excerpt from Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners of the Turks by Sir James Parker (1710-1775), a British diplomat to the Ottoman Empire.

Entry author

Kentaro Inagaki