Gospel Lessons: Arabic Printing at the Tipografia Medicea Orientale
In 1590 and 1591 the Tipografia Medicea Orientale (Medici Oriental Press) in Rome published its two much-advertised illustrated versions of the Gospels in Arabic. The Evangelium sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis, idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne was printed first in Arabic only, then in Arabic with corresponding Latin text […]