Third edition, expanded and edited by Jacobus Golius, of Erpenius classic Arabic grammar, first published in 1613. Maire had published the second edition, edited by Golius student Antonius Deusing, in 1636. That edition included the authors own revisions, taken from his copy of the 1613 edition, and was expanded by the addition of Lokmans fables and Arabic proverbs, which Erpenius had published earlier. The present edition further expands it with an Arabic chrestomathy that Fabricius had published in 1638.
The present copy has clearly been used to study Arab grammar, as it has been annotated in an 18th-century hand throughout. These annotations are most likely the work of the Swede Petrus Boling (1731?-1805?) who was headmaster in Gävle from 1786 to 1805. His manuscript ex libris can be found on the front pastedown.
The work is annotated throughout in brown ink in an 18th-century hand, probably belonging to Petrus Boling. With two manuscript owner's inscriptions on the front pastedown ("J. Apelb..." [crossed out] and "Ex libris Petr. Boling. [Hebrew numbers(?) 2204]"), and a blue oval stamp of the library of the Gästrike-Hälsinge Nation (a student's association in Uppsala, Sweden; "Gästr.-Häls. Nation Bibliotek") on the recto of the first flyleaf. The vellum of the binding is browned, the decorated paper sides are rubbed and slightly damaged along the edges, the printer's device on the title-page has been removed, the hole has been restored with thin laid paper, the first leaf of the preface has been reinforced with paper (was damaged when the title-page was cut), some slight foxing throughout. Otherwise in good condition. Breugelmans, Fac et spera (2003) 1656:1; F. De Nave, Philologia Arabica (1986) 72 note; Schnurrer 81 & 220; Smitskamp, Philologia orientalis 72; STCN 065582748 (8 copies); USTC 1829193 (7 copies)