Gramatica Arabigo-Española, Vulgar, y Literal. Con un Diccionario Arabigo-Español, En Que Se Ponen Las Voces Mas Usuales para una Conversacion Familiar, con el Texto de la Doctrina Cristiano en el Idioma Arabigo
Cañes, Francisco
Madrid. Con Licencia del Consejo en la Imprenta de Don Antonio Perez de Soto. 1775
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Cañes' rare and important Spanish-Arabic grammar - the first to use Arabic types.
Francisco Cañes (1720 - 1795) was a Franciscan and missionary who arrived in Damascus in 1757 and spent the following 16 years there, publishing this text on his return to Madrid. The work was of such popularity that a second edition was published a year later in 1776. Cañes' grammar, which highlights the important distinction between spoken ('vulgar') Arabic and literary ('literal') Arabic, is the first Spanish grammar to incorporate the use of printed Arabic characters; the first Arabic grammar printed in Spanish, the 1505 work by Pedro de Alcalá Geronymo only employed the Latin alphabet. Cañes' outlines Arabic grammar in a series of clear and coherent 'Capitulos', beginning with the alphabet, vowel signs, the conjugation of verbs, numbers, adverbs and so on before concluding with a series of 'Articulos' introducing the reader to common vocabulary terms and then those related to more specific situations and subjects. The typography and structure are coherent and logical throughout.
Cañes' work is rare in commerce, with no copies listed at auction for the last 35 years.
[Langles 943].
Francisco Cañes (1720 - 1795) was a Franciscan and missionary who arrived in Damascus in 1757 and spent the following 16 years there, publishing this text on his return to Madrid. The work was of such popularity that a second edition was published a year later in 1776. Cañes' grammar, which highlights the important distinction between spoken ('vulgar') Arabic and literary ('literal') Arabic, is the first Spanish grammar to incorporate the use of printed Arabic characters; the first Arabic grammar printed in Spanish, the 1505 work by Pedro de Alcalá Geronymo only employed the Latin alphabet. Cañes' outlines Arabic grammar in a series of clear and coherent 'Capitulos', beginning with the alphabet, vowel signs, the conjugation of verbs, numbers, adverbs and so on before concluding with a series of 'Articulos' introducing the reader to common vocabulary terms and then those related to more specific situations and subjects. The typography and structure are coherent and logical throughout.
Cañes' work is rare in commerce, with no copies listed at auction for the last 35 years.
[Langles 943].
pp. (xvi), (ii, errata leaf), (xviii, 'La Doctrina Cristiano' in Arabic numbered in the Arabic manner), 272. Small 4to. (242 x 172 mm). Printed title with woodcut vignette, Cañes' preface 'Al Lector Estudioso, y Alpicado', 'Tabla', errata leaf, 'Texto de la Doctrina Cristiana' in arabic and Cañes' text ('Tratados' and 'Articulos'). Text in Latin and Arabic characters throughout. Occasional pencil marginalia, some minor dampstaining to final 10 leaves. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, decorative tooling in gilt and red morocco title label to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges red.
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