[Arabic language]. - Lot 260

[Arabic language]. ERPE (Thomas van). Oratio de linguae arabicae praestantia & dignitate. Leidae, typographia auctoris, [s.d.]. [Bound at the end]. ERPE (Thomas van). Grammatica Arabica... Leidae, ex Typographia Erpeniana Linguarum Orientalium, 1617. [Bound at the end]. MADER (Johann Melchior). Oratio pro Lingua Arabica... Augustae Vindelicorum,) ex officina D. Franci [s.d.]. [Bound at the end]. ERPE (Thomas van). Sev Proverbiorum Arabicorum. Leidae, in Officina Raphelengiana, 1614. 4 works in 1 small volume in-4, [17] ff. n. ch ; [4] ff. (including engraved title) 157-[2] pp. ; [15] ff. n. ch. ; [4] ff. 126 pp. Later brown morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with gilt fillets (slight rubbing to spine and corners, lower hinge cracked, very slight foxing). Rare collection of four works on the Arabic language published in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. It comprises three works by Thomas Van Erpe, known as Erpenius (1584?-1624), professor at the University of Leiden: a discourse on the language, an Arabic grammar with woodcut title page, and a book of Arabic proverbs. The latter two contain text in Arabic and Latin. It also includes a discourse on the Arabic language by Johann Melchior Mader. Probably a 20th-century working copy, enriched with marginal notes and inserted folios with comments in Arabic, English or Latin. Note on verso of first flyleaf dated May 20, 1828. Provenance: from the Library of Pierre Sotinel.