Kitab Salat as-Sawai
Kitābu ṣalāti s-sawā'ī is a book of hours printed in Arabic in 1514. It is the first known book printed in Arabic with movable type.
History
It was almost certainly printed by Gregorio di Gregorii. Miroslav Krek determined it was very probably printed in Venice, despite the colophonic attribution to Fano, although this is disputed. Other sources claim it was in fact printed in Fano, at an Arabic printing press established by Pope Julius II.Contents
The psalms used are those of the eleventh-century Melkite bishop, Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl.Known existing copies
The scholar Nuria Torres Santo Domingo located a number of existing copies, listed below:Italy
- Biblioteca Estense, Modena
- Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence
- Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
United Kingdom
Germany
- Bavarian State Library, Munich
- Zentralbibliothek Sondersammlungen, Rostock
- Leiden University Library, Leiden
- Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, Madrid
Egypt
United States
- Princeton University Library, Princeton