Author
Raimondi, Giovanni Battista 1540-1610 [editor], Tempesta, Antonio 1555-1630 [artist], Parasole, Leonardo approximately 1570-approximately 1630 [engraver], Tipografia medicea orientale [printer]
Publication Date
1591
Publication Place
Romæ -
in typographia Medicea Anno
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
368
Physical Dimensions
368 pages : [149] illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (2º)
Library
jisc
Record ID
q_language%3A%20ara_sort_year_rn_848
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Collections, St Pancras Reading Rooms, British Library: Oriental Collections, St Pancras Reading Rooms
Date
1591
Notes
Title page in Arabic only. A variant has title page in Arabic and Latin and a different setting of first page of text (p.2). In this setting catchword on p.2 is: داود, Text begins on title page verso., Imprint from colophon., First printing of the Gospels in Arabic. Edited by Giovanni Battista Raimondi., Title transliterated from Arabic., First publication of the Typographia Medicea., 149 woodcuts by repetition of 67 blocks, after designs by Antonio Tempesta. Some with the monogram of Leonardo Parasole the engraver., Duplicate pagination sequences. Arabic numerals at foot of page and Eastern Arabic numerals at head of page., Double-rule border, with a type ornament at each corner, on title page and each page of text., Unsigned. Gathered in fours., Copy at Or.70.d.7. Exhibited: "Early Arabic Printing (from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century)", British Library, London, 27 August to December 1979.
Ayrıntılı Kopya.Raf Numarası
Or.70.d.7, Or.70.d.6.
Tür
Illustrated, text
