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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: Perrins, Charles William Dyson - Raimondi, Giovanni Battista - Tipografia Medicea Orientale - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Tempesta, Antonio
- Date: 1591
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Book/Printed MaterialA concent of Scripture. Engraving by William Rogers. Signatures: leaf (engraved title page) unsigned, 1-4, A-D⁴, fold. leaf, unsigned, E-G⁴ (G4 blank) Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1253 LAC ecr 2019-02-01 update (1 card)- Contributor: Simson, Gabriel - Rogers, William - Broughton, Hugh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - White, William
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialA booke of Christian prayers : collected out of the ancient writers and best learned in our time : worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these … "To the reader" signed: R.D. Based on John Day's Christian prayers and meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and Latin (first published 1569). Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴. STC (2nd ed.) 6431 Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 128) depicting the tree of Jesse. Woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso of t.p. Printer's device (McKerrow 211) on verso of last leaf was…- Contributor: Yardley, Richard - Short, Peter - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Day, Richard - Assignees of Richard Day - Day, John
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialA briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia: of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. English edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America." Also published by Richard Hakluyt as part of his Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation. De Bry, a skillful engraver, in 1587 traveled to England, where he met Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt gave him a copy of Hariot's Virginia, and in 1590 De Bry published the Hariot work in Latin, German, French,…- Contributor: Wechel, Johann - Bry, Theodor De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Harriot, Thomas - Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialMerveillevx et estrange rapport, tovtesfois fidele, des commoditez qvi trovvent en Virginia, des facons des natvrels habitans d'icelle, laqvelle a esté novvellement descovverte par les Anglis qve ... Richard Greinvile ... u …
Merveilleux et estrange rapport, toutesfois fidele, des commoditez qui trouvent en Virginia French edition of pt. 1 of de Bry's collection "America" (also known as "Great Voyages"). De Bry, a skillful engraver, in 1587 traveled to England, where he met Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt gave him a copy of Hariot's Virginia, and in 1590 De Bry published the Hariot work in Latin, German, French, and English as part I of the Great Voyages. ... the succeeding parts…- Contributor: White, John - Wechel, Johann - Bry, Theodor De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Feyerabend, Sigmund - Harriot, Thomas
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialLa Giervsalemme liberata, con le figure di Bernardo Castello e le annotationi di Scipio Gentili e di Giulio Gvastavini The illustrations engraved by Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 880 LAC knj 2019-11-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Tasso, Torquato - Gentili, Scipione - Guastavini, Giulio - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Carracci, Agostino - Castello, Bernardo - Bartoli, Girolamo - Franco, Giacomo
- Date: 1590
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