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

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Tria Specimina Characterum Arabicorum

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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.

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Arabic

Creation date

1608

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Other

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Yes

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The text of Surat al-Fātiḥah is produced in elegant Arabic types on pp. 9-10, alongside Kirstenius’ Latin translation, followed by the Latin translations by Robert of Ketton, an unnamed translator and Guillaume Postel.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov