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New York: Barron's, 2001 2nd ed.  298pp.  paperback: Fine.  A handy shirt-pocket sized volume.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Good/No Dust Jacket. In original case with creased card box cover & a small booklet.

Westport, CT: Institute for Language Study, 1989 reprint. 251pp. illus. paperback 16mo: Fine [rem. line top edge; else F] A Henry Holt Owl Book distribution of a title originally published in 1975.

Winona Lake, Indiana, U.S.A.: Eisenbrauns, 1997. Hardback. Fine/No Dust Jacket.

Octavo, contemporary vellum; pp. (6), 447, pp. (44), Syriac, Arabic and Latin text throughout, woodcut printers device to title, woodcuts to chapter endings, some paper browning throughout, a good copy.
FIRST EDITION of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary arranged according to subjects originally compiled in the 11th century by Elias bar Shinaya, Metropolitan of Nisibis, edited with a Latin translation by Obicini. It was published by Obicini's pupil Germanus de Silesia, author of an Arabic Grammar and an Italian-Arabic dictionary. It is dedicated by Achilles Venerius to Cardinal Barbarini. The Syriac types are the 20pt Maronite types and the Arabic of the text Granjon's arabe du kitãb al-Bustãn.
Thomas Obicini (1585-1632) from Novara, was abbot of the Franciscan convent at Aleppo. In 1621 he returned to Rome and became first lector of Arabic in the St Peter Convent. He was responsible for the supervision of the type designs of Oriental types at the Propaganda Press. The author warns the reader against… Read More