Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed ibn Djarir at-Tabari cum aliis edidit M. J. de Goeje, Volume 15

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E. J. Brill, 1901
 

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Page xxvii - The projected edition of Tabari. The ancient Arabic chronicle has a very characteristic form. Each important fact is related, if possible, by an eyewitness or contemporary, whose account came down through a series of narrators to the author. If he has obtained more than one account of a fact, with more or less important modifications, through several series of narrators, he communicates them all to the reader in extenso. Thus we are enabled to consider the facts from more than one point of view and...
Page xxii - But this admirable work, in the original Arabic, is so extremely rare that the humble author of this tract has never, to the present hour, seen more than two volumes of it; and if a reasonable judgment may be formed from the contents of these two portions, it is evident that the whole work must have occupied at least twenty volumes.33...
Page ccxviii - ... corrigiren. Der Prophet weist eine Frau zurück, die niemals Krankheit oder Schmerz erlitten hat, weil sie Gott nicht wolgefallen könne — während ihr Vater glaubt, das sei eine Empfehlung. 2017 d. »jj> passt hier nicht; denn das ist eine Extrasteuer für den Schah 2049, 15. 2045, 12. 2050, 4. Wahrscheinlich die alte von den Ptolemäern und Seleuciden geforderte Steuer für den goldenen Kranz (Gothofredus zum Cod. Theodos. 12, 11), die sich dann wie im oströmischen, so auch im persischen...
Page xxxi - I first announced the project of publishing the great Arabic Annals of Tabari, and invoked the assistance of all who might deem the success of this enterprise an object worthy of their support. The preparation of the text is now so far advanced, that Mess™...
Page xxx - Mess". Brill of Leiden proposed to publish the work at their costs, I think it very probable, that a contribution towards the expense of printing ought to be paid, especially as we must insist on two points, 1°. that the price of a volume of about 640 pages in 8TO be not above S. 16; 2°. that the printing bo executed at the rate of 3 sheets of 16 pages per fortnight.
Page xxxiii - At the same meeting we agreed upon the method of preparing the text and the manner of publishing the work. As it seems probable that the Annals will be in some demand in Moslem countries, we resolved to try whether we could find types agreeable both to European and Oriental taste. Our choice fell upon those employed at Beyroot.
Page xxxii - Wetzstein called my attention to two manuscripts, which had been brought by him to Europe, and which he believed to contain parts of Tabari. One of these is at present in Berlin, the other in Tübingen. On examination, the opinion of Prof. W. proved to be true.
Page xxxi - ... M. von Kremer, that, by the aid of friends, he had caused careful investigations to be made in the libraries of Mekka and Medina, which led to the result, that not even a fragment of the original work could be found; there were only some copies of the Turkish translation of the Persian compendium, which has been printed in Constantinople.
Page xxxiii - Series. Introduction, history of the patriarchs, prophets and early kings , . Dr. J. Barth of Berlin. Period of the Sasanides Prof. Th. Nöldeke of Strassburg. Life of Mohnmmccl Prof. 0. Loth of Leipzig. Reign of the four „righteous
Page lxxxiii - Madhab al-Tabari; in diesem Sinne widmet ihm der Verf. des Fihrist, sein jüngerer Zeitgenosse, einen eigenen Artikel, 236.

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