RELANDI, ADRIANI Adriaan Reland. Persian language... Lot 35

RELANDI, ADRIANI [Adriaan Reland]. Persian language manual: Prima elementa linguae persicae nitidissime conscriptae copied by Adriani Relandi (d. 1718), dated 1705 Autograph, handwritten in Persian, text in black and red ta'liq, unfinished, bound in red brown morocco, bookplate "A Franck, Librairie française et étrangère, 67 rue de Richelieu, Paris", active bookshop around 1860. Size : 31 x 21,5 cm (binding) Provenance : Adriaan Reland (d. 1718), his sale, Willem Kroon & Gijsbert van Paddenburg, Utrecht, 1761, lot 9 Adriaan Reland (1676-1718) was a Dutch orientalist, cartographer and philologist. He composed this manuscript in 1705, four years after his appointment to the chair of oriental languages at the University of Utrecht. This manuscript is listed in "APPENDIX 2: The manuscript Collection of Adriaan Reland", Bart Jaski et al, The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion, 2001, p.437.