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Ramon Martí

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Notable figure d. 1286 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 174 · Second source: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Authority File: Martí, Ramón, -approximately 1286

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; credited with the Vocabulista in arabico

Biography

Born in Catalonia in the first third of the thirteenth century, he learned Arabic and Hebrew. The Vocabulista in arabico, an Arabic–Latin and Latin–Arabic glossary and the oldest bilingual record of Andalusi Arabic, is attributed to him: Dozy held that he compiled it, or that it was compiled in his lifetime, in the second half of the thirteenth century. Schiaparelli published it in Florence in 1871, and Dozy drew on it for the Supplément.