Title

Corani caput primum et secundi versus priores

Full title

CORANI CAPVT PRIMVM ET SECVNDI VERSVS PRIORES. ARABICE ET LATINE CVM ANIMADVERSIONIBVS HISTORICIS ET PHILOLOGICIS NEC NON NOTARVM CORANICARVM AD VETVS TESTAMENTVM SPECIMINE.

Short Title

Corani caput primum et secundi versus priores

Title in English

The First and the First Part of the Verses of the Second Chapter of the Qurʾān. In Arabic and Latin with Historical and Philological Annotations. With a Specimen of the Qurʾānic Notes to the Old Testament.

Printer

IMPENSIS HILSCHERI; Typis LOEPERI (on p. 64)

Released place

Leipzig

Released date

1768

Author

Justus Fridericus Froriep

Language

609

Qur'an

Edition; Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

1; 2: 1-79

Pages

xvi; 64

Further notes

Paratext: Before main text of the Qurʾān: "PRAEFATIO" (pp. iii-xvi). After main text of the Qurʾān: "NOTARVM CORANICARVM AD VETVS TESTAMENTVM SPECIMEN" (pp. 57-64).

Sources

Arabic Type

Typis LOEPERI

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Johann August Ernest, ed., Neue Theologische Bibliothek,darinnen von den neuesten theologiscen Büchern und Schriften Nachricht gegeben wird. vol. 9 (Leipzig: verlegts Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1768) , pp. 471-76; Christian Fridrich de Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica (Halae ad Salam: Typis et sumtu I. C. Hendeii, 1811), no. 383 (p. 417); Alastair Hamilton, "'To Rescue the Honour of the Germans':Qurʾān Translations by Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Protestants", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 77 (2014), pp. 173-209, especially on p. 182.

Individuals

Justus Fridericus Froriep (Editor and Translator).

Descriptive card

This edition contains the Arabic text of the first and part of the second sura of the Qurʾān. Froriep added Latin translation as well as historical and philological notes. He then appended a specimen of how the Qurʾānic Arabic would contribute to decipher the Biblical Hebrew.

Entry author

Kentaro Inagaki