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(BIBLE IN ARABIC.) Kitab al-injil al-sharif. Extensive use of woodcut and type ornamentation. [4], 316 pages. Partly printed in red. Folio, original Shuweir binding of blind-tooled black goatskin, joints, cover corners and edges partly worn through; contents browned and dampstained. 19th- and 20th-century owners' inscriptions on endpapers. Shuweir (Lebanon): Monastery of St. John the Baptist, 1818
Second Shuweir edition of the Liturgical Gospels in Arabic, following the first published there in 1776. Active from 1733 to 1899, the Shuweir press was one of the earliest Arabic printing operations in the Middle East, specializing in Christian texts.
