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Book/Printed Materialal-Injīl al-muqaddas li-rabbinā Yasūʻal-Masīḥ al-maktūb min arbaʻ al-injīlīyīn al-muqaddasīn aʻnī : Mattá wa-Murqus wa-Lūqā wa-Yūḥannā = Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Lvca, …
الانجيل المقدس لربنا يسوع المسيح المکتوب من اربع الانجيليين المقدسين اعني : متى ومرقس ولوقا ويوحنا = Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Lvca, et Iohanne | Evangelivm sanctvm Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptvm a qvatvor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Lvca, et Iohanne | Evangelium sanctum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis idest : Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Johanne This is the first edition of the Gospels printed in Arabic. It was printed at the Typographia Medicea, a printing house established in Rome by Ferdinando de Medici at the request of Pope Gregory XIII for the purpose of spreading Christianity by printing biblical texts and liturgical books in oriental languages. The Typographia Medicea commissioned fonts of oriental type from some of the most…- Contributor: Tempesta, Antonio - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Tipografia Medicea Orientale - Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Raimondi, Giovanni Battista
- Date: 1591
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Book/Printed MaterialBrevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt : secunda in illam navigatione, duce Renato de Laudo[n]niere classis praefecto, anno MDLXIIII : quae est secunda pars Americae, additae figurae & …
Brevis narratio eorvm qvae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis Part 2 of de Bry's collection known as America gives an account of expeditions by French Huguenots to Florida und Jean Ribaut (1562), René de Laudonnière (1564), and Dominique de Gourgues (1567). Jacques Le Moyne is the author of the Laudonnière expedition and the artist of the drawings. The authors of the other two accounts which follow the plates have not been identified. Signatures:…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Bry, Theodor De - Feyerabend, Sigmund - Wechel, Johann - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Le Moyne De Morgues, Jacques
- Date: 1591
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Book/Printed MaterialOrlando furioso : in English heroical verse
Orlando fvrioso Engraved title page signed Tho. Coxonus, sculp. Imprint from colophon. First English-language edition. "Most copies are ordinary folio; of the others some are large-paper folio ... and some have been printed on thick 4[to] paper ... Some of the special-paper copies are hand-coloured": Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.),…- Contributor: Cockson, Thomas - Hopetoun House (South Queensferry, Scotland) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Harington, John - Holford, George Lindsay - Porro, Girolamo - Coningsby, Thomas - Ariosto, Lodovico - Field, Richard
- Date: 1591
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