Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 4,940
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
AGNELLINI, TIMOTEO [formerly HUMAILI IBN DA'FI KARNUK]. Proverbii Utili, e Virtuosi in Lingua Araba, Persiana, e Turca. Arabic, Persian, and Turkish text and glossary with Latin transliteration and Latin and Italian translation. [8], 55, [1]; 24 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 173x108 mm, 18th-century calf, spine worn, ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact, cover edges worn; marginal dampstaining and foxing throughout. Padua: Stamperia del Seminario, 1688

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first edition of a collection of Middle Eastern proverbs. Agnellini (d. 1724) was a Jacobite Christian from Diyarbakir whose erratic career took him from Mardin, where he was consecrated but forbidden to officiate as bishop, to Italy, where he was jailed for fraudulent conduct as a mendicant. Graf IV, 54-55.