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Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer printed in Calcutta in 1837.
Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer printed in Calcutta in 1837.
Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer printed in Calcutta in 1837.
Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer printed in Calcutta in 1837.

first Calcutta edition


POCOCKE, Edward (translator).

Kitab al-Salawat al-Am'iyyat, a book of common prayer.

Calcutta, Bishop's College Press, 1837.

£500.00
£500.00

Kitab al-Salawat al-Am'iyyat,

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Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer, first published in Oxford in 1674. The text was likely commissioned by Christian missionaries in Calcutta and is apparently the third extant edition of the text in Arabic translation (Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 2002).

From the collection of James Windrow Sweetman (d. 1966), who was Vice Principal of the Henry Martyn School at Aligarh, and then Professor of Islamic Studies at the Selly Oak College Birmingham.

OCLC records only one copy in the British Isles.

First Calcutta edition, 4to, type-set printed in Arabic, lacking English title and 4X and 4Y (two gatherings, 8 leaves in total), Arabic title trimmed, second leaf repaired along lower edge, some light even toning, near-contemporary half leather over cloth boards, covers lightly scuffed, paper label to spine. 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½ inches).

Griffiths 8:3

Stock code 112559

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Rare edition of Pococke's Arabic translation of the Book of Common Prayer printed in Calcutta in 1837.

Kitab al-Salawat al-Am'iyyat,

£500.00
£500.00

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