Kitab Salat as-Sawai

Kitābu ṣalāti s-sawā'ī (Arabic: كتاب صلاة السواعي) is a book of hours printed in Arabic in 1514.^[2][3] It is the first known book printed in Arabic with movable type.^[3][1][4][2]

Kitābu ṣalāti s-sawā'ī

A copy of Kitābu ṣalāti s-sawā'ī at the Senior Library of Oxford University's Lincoln College.
Original title	كتاب صلاة السواعي
Publication date	September 12, 1514[1]

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.^[3][6] Other sources claim it was in fact printed in Fano, at an Arabic printing press established by Pope Julius II.^[1][4]

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,^[2] 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