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(LORD'S PRAYER.) Oratio Dominica, plurimis tam antiquis quam recentioribus linguis calamo exarata.calligraphic manuscript giving the text of the Lord's Prayer in over fifty languages, written in black ink in a variety of European and non-European scripts in multiple hands, recto only, on wove paper. [62] leaves, including letterpress title page. 190x121 mm, mid-19th-century red leather gilt with ornamental frame on covers and scrollwork decoration on spine, textured endpapers, front cover detached; ink occasionally oxidized with resulting holes, minor dampstaining along fore edges at beginning and end, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on front endleaf; linen folding case. Np, mid-19th century
A few versions (e. g., Armenian, "Brazilian," Sardinian, Aethiopian) were never filled in. According to a note on the front flyleaf, "This book was bound in Charleston, S.C., in 1855. Some of the manuscript was written by Abbas, a Maronite, and Guriel[?] a Chaldean but most of it by Roth, a priest of Westphalia. The Chinese portion is from Rev. Dr. Leang a Chinese priest."
