Kitab Salat as-Sawai explained

Kitābu ṣalāti s-sawā'ī
Title Orig:	كتاب صلاة السواعي
Orig Lang Code:	ar
Pub Date:	September 12, 1514

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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

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,^[5] although this is disputed.^[6] 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.^[7]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Recently catalogued: an enigma in the Senior Library Lincoln College Oxford . 2022-04-11 . lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
2. Web site: مبتدا . 2019-09-04 . كاهن يطالب الكنيسة بالاحتفال بمرور 505 أعوام على طباعة أول كتاب عربى . 2022-04-11 . www.mobtada.com . ar.
3. Web site: Printing History in the Arabic-Speaking World · Yale University Library Online Exhibitions . 2022-04-11 . onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu.
4. Torres Santo Domingo . Nuria . 2014-09-01 . 500 años del primer libro impreso en caracteres móviles árabes. 500 years of the first Arabic printed book by movable type . Pecia Complutense . en . 11 . 21 . 1–20 . 1698-272X.
5. M. Krek . M. . 1979 . The Enigma of the First Arabic Book Printed from Movable Type . Journal of Near Eastern Studies . 38 . 3 . 203–212 . 10.1086/372742. 162374182 .
6. Book: Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Huda . Arabic typography a comprehensive sourcebook . 2001 . 0-86356-347-3 . 45 . 1185527233.
7. M. Krek . M. . 1979 . The Enigma of the First Arabic Book Printed from Movable Type . Journal of Near Eastern Studies . 38 . 3 . 203–212 . 10.1086/372742. 162374182 .