'Libro de Lustre de la Lampise ...' and 'Translation of a booke out of the Arabian Toung...'

Title

'Libro de Lustre de la Lampise ...' and 'Translation of a booke out of the Arabian Toung...'

Shelfmark

MS. Selden Supra 33

Summary

Written soon after A.D. 1595, (fol. 5). 'Libro de Lustre de la Lampise ...': E questo la nona parte della prova de .40. de Libro della Lege . ..': the latter part of the rubric is erased and altered, so as to affirm that the authors were 'Le Sauie figliole de Apraham Elcailani 'A translation from a mystic Mohammedan work on God and the Virtues: beg. '... Sia laudato Dio che mostra suo nome nela piu perfetto de suo creature': there are many corrections: the work is dated A. H. 1004 = A.D. 1595, and was translated and written perhaps about A.D. 1600.

Written in A.D. 1630 by T. P., (fol. 46). 'Translation of a booke out of the Arabian Toung written in that languag by the most famus and renowmed Plato the Deuine by T. P. May 1. 1630'. This is an Italian translation copied out by an Englishman (fols. 46, 78), of a treatise on the mystical meaning of angels, animals, letters of the alphabet, signs of the Zodiac, and the like: beg. 'In nome de Deo. Miseracordiosa lui sea laudatto che creaua il homo e ha monstrata á lui la charezza de tutto quel che si vede'. Fols. 79-end are blank.

Date

Made up of two pieces written in the 17th century

Language

Italian

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

165 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 3435 acquired by the Bodleian Library