Tārīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal = Historia compendiosa dynastiarum, / authore Gregorio Abul-Pharajio, ... historiam complectens universalem, â mundo condito, usque ad tempora authoris, res orientalium accuratissimè describens. Arabice edita, & Latine versa, ab Eduardo Pocockio.

Historia compendiosa dynastiarum

Historia compendiosa dynastiarvm

Oxoniae : Excudebat H. Hall Celeberrimae Academiae Typographus, impensis Ric: Davis, M.DC.LXIII. [1663]

12 unnumbered pages, 368 pages, 83 unnumbered pages, 565 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Wing (2nd ed.) G2024

Madan 2629

ESTC R31735

Madan, III, 2629

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), G2024

Arabic title romanized for this record

Signatures: *⁴ [superscript chi]*² A-3K⁴, pi1(= cancel on LC93-128149) A-4B⁴. ²4B4 blank

Errata: 3I1-3K4

Includes index.

Duplicate title page at beginning of Arabic text.

Issued with: Pococke, Edward. al-Dhayl ʻalá Tārīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal = Supplementum historiae dynastiarum: in quo historiae orientalis. Oxoniae : Excudebat Henricus Hall ... impensis Richardi Davis, 1663.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: H. Ooster. Note: Latin translation not present, nor is Supplementum, nor is Index. Pagination: 565, [3] p. (reads from back to front, as usual for Arabic). Title page missing. Binding: contemp. mottled calf, gilt spine. Bookplates: 1. Valperga di Masino e di Caluso (18th cent.) 2. Ex libris Josephi Aequitis a Karabarek, 1905

Copy 2. Order of binding differs, pagination as follows: [22], 66, [5], 565, [2], 368, [80] p. Supplementum bound after prefatory material, then Arabic text (reads from back to front), Latin text, Index. Bound in 17th century mottled calf, five raised bands on spine with gold tooling and lettering, text-block edges speckled red. Manuscript notes of J.J. Reiske, with his inscription at end of Arabic text (p. 565): Imposui finem lectioni d. 4 Novemb. 1737. J.J. Reiske. Two library stamps on front paste-down indicating copy is duplicate from Swedish Royal Library: Stockholms Högskola, från Kristiania Universitats Bibliotek. Dupl. från Kungl. Bibl.