Georg Freytag’s Lexicon Arabico–Latinum
Johannes Patruus
Tomes I-II in one volume:
http://www.archive.org/details/lexiconarabicola01freyuoft
Tomes III-IV in one volume:
http://www.archive.org/details/lexiconarabicola03freyuoft
An impressively expensive reprint is also available - http://bit.ly/56ZoGg
It was less than three decades after Freytag finished his work that
E.W.Lane's multivolume Arabic-English Lexicon started to appear. Historian
Jason Thompson in his article on Lane - http://bit.ly/4PXUoB - provides
the following perspective:
[Quote:]
Nothing existed like the dictionary he [Lane] planned. The standard works
were the 17th-century Arabic�Latin dictionaries of Franciscus Raphelengius
and Jacob Golius. Magnificent accomplishments in their time, they had long
fallen out of date, being limited in sources, deficient in organization
and scope, and marred by mistakes. Georg Freytag�s Lexicon
Arabico�Latinum, published during the 1830�s, did little more than
replicate the shortcomings of its predecessors. And all of those
dictionaries were composed in Latin, a language that was not only already
slipping into decreasing scholarly use but was also unsuitable for
treating Arabic. As Lane told the Duke of Northumberland, �There are
thousands of Arabic words & phrases which Cicero himself could not have
expressed� in Latin. It was high time for a dictionary of Arabic and a
major modern European language. Lane set about single-handedly to fill
that need.
[:Unquote]
Unfortunately Lane died before completing his Lexicon and, as far as I can
tell, it remains uncompleted to this day.
Patruus
Johannes Patruus
> Johannes Patruus wrote:
>> Tomes I-II in one volume:
>> http://www.archive.org/details/lexiconarabicola01freyuoft
>>
>> Tomes III-IV in one volume:
>> http://www.archive.org/details/lexiconarabicola03freyuoft
>>
>
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> 20090507153055
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> Sonya captured about 2300 pages in 8 hours and 40 minutes (assuming that
> the above are finish times of some process carried out uniformly). I
> hope she had some time off for lunch. Just another indication in a
> series of them stretching back to Eve that demonstrates the inborn
> superiority of the human female over the male.
At any rate, she seems to have made a better job of it than what we are
accustomed to from Google's slaphappy crew.
> If any of you downloads the 2 pdf's I would be interested to know if any
> ocr has been done on the Latin or Arabic, i.e. is the text searchable?
To see OCR output, click the "Full Text" link in the "View the book" panel
on the left-hand side of the Internet Archive pages. There's Latin to be
seen but no Arabic. You can also tell from the bottom of the page that
they've used ABBYY FineReader 8.0. Arabic OCR software does exist but
it's royally expensive.
The following search demonstrates that Googlebot's been on the job:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22laudls%20studlo%20abreptus%22
It also demonstrates that, as is generally the case with such OCR outputs,
no proofreading has been done.
> Eduardus
Patruus
Johannes Patruus
>
> http://www.abbyy.com/ocr_sdk_windows/technical_specifications/ocr_languages/
>
> there isn't even dictionary support for Latin but there is for Old
> Italian. Anyway it's very difficult to get this software in U.S. Most is
> from England and Eastern Europe.
This looks interesting:
http://www.simpleocr.com/OCR_Software_Guide.asp
navee...@gmail.com
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14940637/Lane%20-An%20Arabic%20English%20lexicon%20v0.1.zip
Johannes Patruus
> Lane's Lexicon now available for download in an extremely small size of just 9.32 MB. I converted it into text myself. See more details in the file:
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14940637/Lane%20-An%20Arabic%20English%20lexicon%20v0.1.zip
I got the file to display correctly in Word 2002 (which, despite its
antiquity, runs nicely under Windows 7 64-bit), and then tried your
suggestion of BabelPad, which loaded it much more quickly than Word or
NotePad.
But what a shame it is that after all these years the scholars have still
failed to complete what Lane left unfinished at his death!
Patruus