Kitab al-Mazamir.

Dayr al-Shuwayr, Kisrawan, Lebanon, St. John the Baptist - Monastery, 1839.,

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Author

[Biblia Arabica - Psalmi].

Publishers

Dayr al-Shuwayr, Kisrawan, Lebanon, St. John the Baptist, Monastery, 1839.

Keyword

Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses

Languages

English

Description

8vo. 354, (14) pp., wanting final blank. Contemporary blindstamped brown calf. Rare Psalter from the printing office of the Melkite monastery of St. John the Baptist at al-Shuwayr in the Lebanese Kisrawan mountains, operative between 1734 and 1899, during which time it produced in all 69 Arabic books, including re-editions (cf. Silvestre de Sacy I, pp. 412-414; Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution. A Cross-Cultural Encounter, Westhofen 2002, pp. 179-181). Nasrallah counts 15 editions of the Psalter alone, the last (produced in 1899, the only as-Shuwayr Psalter in the Aboussouan collection) constituting the swan-song of that important press. "Le Psautier a longtemps t le livre classique unique des coles d'Orient. Cela nous explique pourquoi il fut si souvent dit " (Nasrallah, p. 38). - Binding a little rubbed; some light browning and brownstaining (mainly confined to margins). A good copy. - Not in Nasrallah.