Details

Former owner

• Manzoni, Giacomo, 1816-1889 [Browse]
• Augustinians [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Manuscript waste [Browse]

Notes

• The first book printed in Arabic.
• Ms. titles, in different hands, on t.-p.: Horologium è graeco sermone in arabicum translatum, and Liber precationum horariarum.
• Known as the Precatio horarii.

Binding note

Ex copy: Bound in laced case parchment binding with mss. waste guards over spine. Inscribed on cover 'Precationes arabicae sive Horologium.' In white cloth case.

Provenance

• Ex copy: Inscribed on initial page is the ownership inscription of the Augustinian Hermits of Munich.
• Ex copy: Bookplate 'ExLibris Jacobi Manzoni.'

Indexed in

Miroslav Krek, "The Enigma of the First Arabic Book Printed from Movable Type," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3. (Jul.,1979), pp. 203-212.

Other title(s)

Precatio horarii

OCLC

42612270

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