[Rarebooks] OFFER:NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ARABICE -EDITIO PRINCEPS IN ARABIC !

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NOVUM
TESTAMENTUM ARABICE. Ex Bibliotheca 
Leidensi. Edente Thoma Erpenio. In typographia 
Erpiniana Linguarum Orientalium: Leida. 1616. 
4vo. May be The Editio Princeps of the Arabic New 
Testament. Edited by T.  Erpenius from a MS. 
Bequeathed to the Leyden Library by Joseph 
Scaliger, said to have been written at the 
Monstery  of St. John in the Thebaid in 
1342
Darlow and Moule 1616. It contains the 648 
pages, An early owner has marked the date 1621 on 
the inner rear board and left the bookplate of 
John Williams Whitaker, St Johns' College, 
Cambridge there. Original full vellum, 
calligraphic spine title, two leaves at the 
beginning and two at the end browned from glue in the binding, OW VG  $3750.00

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