Coranus Arabice. Recensionis Flügelianae Textum Recognitum Iterum Exprimi Curavit Gustavus Mauritius Redslob
Qur'an / Koran
Leipzig. Typis et Sumtu Caroli Tauchnitii. 1837
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A beautiful copy in contemporary decorated red morocco of the best printed edition of the Qur'an prior to the twentieth century.
Gustav Flügel (1802 - 1870) prepared an edition of the Qur'an in quarto - the first to take advantage of modern editing - that was published by Tauchnitz in Leipzig in 1834. Flügel's intended audience for his 'textus receptus' was primarily Western and for that edition he added numeration for the Suras and verses, in the process disregarding Islamic traditions and conventions. Produced in a number of variant issues (without the Latin title, dedication and introduction and so on) and initially successful, Tauchnitz, sensing a publishing opportunity given the possibilities of a Muslim audience, asked the scholar Gustav Moritz Redslob (1804 - 1882) to prepare an octavo edition that accorded with Qur'anic tradition. Redslob produced the present version, the 'editio steretypa' (the stereotype process makes use of a printing plate taken from set-up type) that avoided many of the errors associated with the typesetting of previous printed versions of the Qur'an and proved so successful that it was printed throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries.
'The best edition in Arabic is still that of Flügel ... especially the revised publication of Flügel's edition by Redslob, Leipzig, 1837.' (Samuel Marinus Zwemer, A Working Library of Islam, 1912).
'Until the 1324 / 1924 publication of the Cairo edition, whose text had been prepared by a group of Muslim scholars, Flügel's edition was considered an authoritative Arabic version of the Quran.' ('The Quran in East and West &c.).
It seems likely, given the date of publication, that the Auguste Lagarde whose library stamp features on the title and the first leaf of Latin text was the same Lagarde sent to research and collect manuscripts in Greece and Turkey by the Commission des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires in 1838.
[Brunet III, 1307; see Columbia University's 'The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books'].
Gustav Flügel (1802 - 1870) prepared an edition of the Qur'an in quarto - the first to take advantage of modern editing - that was published by Tauchnitz in Leipzig in 1834. Flügel's intended audience for his 'textus receptus' was primarily Western and for that edition he added numeration for the Suras and verses, in the process disregarding Islamic traditions and conventions. Produced in a number of variant issues (without the Latin title, dedication and introduction and so on) and initially successful, Tauchnitz, sensing a publishing opportunity given the possibilities of a Muslim audience, asked the scholar Gustav Moritz Redslob (1804 - 1882) to prepare an octavo edition that accorded with Qur'anic tradition. Redslob produced the present version, the 'editio steretypa' (the stereotype process makes use of a printing plate taken from set-up type) that avoided many of the errors associated with the typesetting of previous printed versions of the Qur'an and proved so successful that it was printed throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries.
'The best edition in Arabic is still that of Flügel ... especially the revised publication of Flügel's edition by Redslob, Leipzig, 1837.' (Samuel Marinus Zwemer, A Working Library of Islam, 1912).
'Until the 1324 / 1924 publication of the Cairo edition, whose text had been prepared by a group of Muslim scholars, Flügel's edition was considered an authoritative Arabic version of the Quran.' ('The Quran in East and West &c.).
It seems likely, given the date of publication, that the Auguste Lagarde whose library stamp features on the title and the first leaf of Latin text was the same Lagarde sent to research and collect manuscripts in Greece and Turkey by the Commission des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires in 1838.
[Brunet III, 1307; see Columbia University's 'The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books'].
[276 leaves; pp. viii; (iv), 529, (i). 8vo. (220 x 142 mm). Printed title in Latin, leaf with Redslob's Latin introduction dated 'XIX. Februarii MDCCCXXXVII.', two leaves with 'Index Versuum' (all printed in the Western manner, i.e. left to right); leaf with printed calligraphic title in Arabic verso and Arabic text of Al-Qur'an, two leaves with indices (all printed in the Arabic manner, i.e. right to left); first two leaves of Arabic text within elaborate red masjid frames, Sura titles within red decorative borders, all text within red rules, occasional printed marginal notes, pagination in Arabic numerals throughout. Full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, boards with thick gilt border to surround central crescent moon vignette with decorative gilt surround composed of rose and scroll tools, smooth spine with gilt title and decorative tooling, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins with tulip roll tool border, silver patterned endpapers, a.e.g., later burgundy cloth protective box.
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