SPARWENFELD, JOHAN GABRIEL & (BENZELIUS,ERIK the younger & CELSIUS, OLAUS the older): - Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, arabicorum, persicorum, turcicorum, graecorum, latinorum, &c.. Upsala, Joh. Henr. Werner, 1706.

. 4to. Uncut copy in later wrappers. Pp. (iv), 74. Last leaf creased at upper right corner, and a small tear at the margin. An annotated collection of Oriental books and manuscripts donated by Sparwenfeld to the Library of the University of Upsala. Sparwenfeld (1655-1727) was a Swedish diplomat and linguist who is known to speak fourteen languages including Arabic. He acquired the collection during his travels in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia at the end of the 17th century. The collection comprises sixty-one manuscripts, of which forty-one in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Further it contains forty-two printed books in various languages, including several in Chinese. Three of the Chinese books were presented to Sparwenfeld by Philippe Couplet in 1690. At the end a few more manuscripts are described. This catalogue was compiled by the Swedish scholars Eric Benzelius t.y. and Olaus Celsius t.e. A crisp copy. Almquist, Sveriges Bibl.Lit. 2838. Schnurrer 17 & 25. Smitskamp PO 113 d.

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