Author: Dieu, Louis de.
Title: Rudimenta Linguae Persicae ... accedunt duo priora capita Geneseos, ex Persica translatione Iac. Tawusi.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1639. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 4ff. 95pp. []4, A4-M4. Contemporary calf, rebacked. From the collection of Johannes Alberti (1698-1762), a minister and professor at the University of Leiden and Adrian Oudemans, author of Bibliotheca Oudemanniana. Willems 477; Rahir 473; Berghman 694. Dieu was an orientalist scholar attached to Leyden University, having been born in Flessingen in 1590. For a long time this clear and simple work was the only source of knowledge of the Persian language in Europe. Bound with: Xavier, Jerome. Historia Christi Persice Conscripta, Simulque Multis Modis Contimanata A P. Hieronymo Xavier, Soc. Jesu Latine reddita et Animadversionibus notata a Ludovico de Dieu. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1639. Quarto. 12ff. 636pp. [2]ff. *1-3*4, A1-4L4 Title-page in red-and-black. With printer's device on the title-page. Parallel text in Persian and Latin. Willems 490; Graesse VII, 482; Rahir 486 & 487; Smitskamp 311; Zenker BO i, 1678; De Backer-Sommervogel VIII, 1340; Berghman, Impressions Elzeviriennes 74. The work is among the earliest printed books with text in Persian. The Historia Christi Persice ("The Life of the Messiah") had been composed in Portuguese and translated into Persian by Xavier, a missionary resident at the court of Akbar, the Mughal emperor of India. "Akbar was delighted with the treatise, and insisted on Aziz Koka reading it aloud to him. That nobleman, who must have hated the task, made the best of a bad business, and asked that a second copy might be prepared for his own use. The actual manuscript presented to Akbar in 1602 is said to be that now in the Bodlean Library" (Smith, V.A. Akbar, The Great Mogul, 1919, p. 291). Louis De Dieu made this translation into Latin and published it in parallel with the Persian text. Gospel paraphrase translated into Persian from Xavier's Portugese original with Latin translation and notes by Ludovico De Dieu on facing pages and Xavier, Jerome. Historia S. Petri Persice Conscripta, Simulque Multis Modis Contimanata. Latine reddita, et brevibus Animadversionibus notata a Ludovico de Dieu. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1639. Quarto. 4ff. 144pp. +4, A4-S4. Title-page in red-and-black. With printer's device on the title-page. Willems 490; Graesse VII, 482; Rahir 486 & 487; Berghman, Impressions Elzeviriennes 74; Zenker BO i, 1678; De Backer-Sommervogel VIII, 1340. Good.

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