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Jerusalem Imprint / English Missionary Press / Arabic Language: كتاب الصلاة العامّة [Book of Common Prayer]

680.00€

Unique item

 

8°.  114 pp., later marbled paper wrappers (transcription of the title and date in Latin letters and Roman numbers in brown and black ink on the cover, tiny tears in the tile page, otherwise in a good condition).

 

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Description

This exceedingly rare Book of Common Prayer in Arabic language was printed by an English Missionary Press in Jerusalem.

The font used is a so called al-Amerikani, a type designed and punch-cut by Homan Hallock (1803-1894) in Istanbul and casted in Leipzig by the Tauschnitz foundry in 1841. It was invented for the American Missionary Press in Beirut, but became widely popular in the late 19th century among the foreign presses in the Middle East (for the details, see: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Arabic Typography and the Shaping of a Modern Print Culture. In: By the Pen and What they Write. Writing in Islamic Art and Culture, 2017, pp. 237-238).

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