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GRIGHOR, Abu al-Faraj. Specimen Historiae Arabum, sive... de origine & moribus Arabum succincta narratio, in linguam Latinam conversa. Edited and with notes by Edward Pococke. Oxford: Humphrey Robinson for H. Hall, 1650. Small 4 (178 x 135mm). Printed in Latin and Arabic, title in red and black. (Some browning to first and last few leaves.) 17th-century speckled calf, spine gilt, 18th-century lettering-piece on spine (joints weak and slightly split). Provenance: Edward Leslie (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. "Edward Pococke (1604-1691) learned his oriental languages as a chaplain to the Turkey Merchants of Aleppo; in 1636 Laud appointed him to the new professorship [the chair of Arabic at Oxford University], and sent him to the East again to collect manuscripts ... he persevered with his work, and the Specimen, an elaborate set of essays attached to a thirteenth-century description of the Arabs, was the first product of it': N. Barker. Oxford University Press and the spread of learning (1978) no. 35; Wing G-2025.
FIRST EDITION. "Edward Pococke (1604-1691) learned his oriental languages as a chaplain to the Turkey Merchants of Aleppo; in 1636 Laud appointed him to the new professorship [the chair of Arabic at Oxford University], and sent him to the East again to collect manuscripts ... he persevered with his work, and the Specimen, an elaborate set of essays attached to a thirteenth-century description of the Arabs, was the first product of it': N. Barker. Oxford University Press and the spread of learning (1978) no. 35; Wing G-2025.