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
France
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
United Kingdom
British Museum, London Bodleian Library, Oxford
Germany
Bavarian State Library, Munich Zentralbibliothek Sondersammlungen, Rostock
Netherlands
Leiden University Library, Leiden
Spain
Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, Madrid
Sweden
Carolina Rediviva, Uppsala
Egypt
Egyptian National Library and Archives, Cairo
United States
Princeton University Library, Princeton
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