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[3], 447 pp., [43], [2f], + 70 pp., Index Alphabeticus, title woodcut device, handsomely printed in Roman, Syriac and Arabic fonts throughout, contemporary vellum, soiled, some browning and spotting throughout. An Arabic-Syriac-Latin word list arranged by subject, based on the Arabic-Syriac vocabulary compiled in the 11th century by Elias bar Shinaya, metropolitan of Nisibis (see Haywood, p.122). Obicini, (or Obizzino) 1585? 1632, was head of the Franciscan convent in Aleppo between 1613 and 1619. On his return to Rome he successfully proposed that a college be established in the convent of St Peter in Montorio for missionaries preparing to evangelise in the East to learn Arabic and he was appointeteacher of Arabic by the Propaganda Fide. Obicini was also responsible for the supervision of the Propaganda Fide?s type. His Thesaurus Arabico-Syro-Latinus was prepared for publication after his death by Dominico Germano de Silesia. It was a rather carelespiece of printing, with some words printed upside down and the errata list occupying 17 pages. ?The Syriac types are the 20pt Maronite types, and the Arabic? Granjon?s arabe du Kitab al-Bustan. In the headings the Arabic Bible types are used? (Smitskamp). The Propaganda Fide press printed alphabets of most of the languages spoken by those whom the catholic church saw as potential converts. Alphabets soon led to missals, grammars and dictionaries. An early book by the Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide (OCLC lists only 6 earlier ones). OCLC lists 5 copies but only 3 in the U.S. (Harvard, N.Y.P.L., and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania). Ebert 14920. Not in the Blackmer sale and not in the Atabey sale. REF: [Marsden, p.48; Schnurrer, pp.38?9; Smitskamp PO 223]. #32176. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010977
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