[SACRAE CONGREGATIO DE PROPAGANDA FIDE.] A sammelband containing 16 Alphabetum, all published by the Sacrae Congregatio de Propaganda Fide.

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[SACRAE CONGREGATIO DE PROPAGANDA FIDE.] A sammelband containing 16 Alphabetum, all published by the Sacrae Congregatio de Propaganda Fide.

2 volumes, 8o (173 x 113 mm). 18th-century Italian calf, spine gilt, black morocco lettering pieces (some worm damage, some rubbing). Provenance: Biblioteca Banzi (bookplate).

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Vol. I:
[VENERIO, Achille.] Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Abyssinum. Cum oratione dominicali salutatione angelica, symbolo fidei, & praeceptis decalogi, Latina lingua composites, & Charactere Aethiopico impressis. Rome, 1631. 16pp.

Alphabetum Arabicum unà cum oratione dominicali, salutatione angelica, & simbolo apostolico. Rome, 1715. 15pp.

Alphabetum Armenum Iussu S.D.N. Gregorii XV.... Rome, 1673. 16pp.

Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni avae finitimarumque regionum. Rome, 1776. xliv, 51pp. Engraved folding table.

AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo (1740-1792). Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum universitatis Kasí. Rome, 1771. xx, 152pp. Brunet I:197.

Alphabetum Chaldaicum Antiquum estranghelo dictum ùna cum alphabeto syriaco, oratione dominicali salutatione angelica, & symbolo fidei. Rome, 1636. 15pp.

Alphabetum Chaldaicum, cum oratione dominicali salutatione angelica, & salutation ad Virginem Mariam. Rome, 1634. 11pp.

Alphabetum Cophtum sice Aegyptiacum. N.p., n.d. 8pp.

Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum et nonnulla eorumdem monumenta. Rome, 1771. 37pp. Brunet I:197.

Vol. II:
Alphabetum graecum cum oratione dominicale, salutatione angelica, symbolo fidei, & praeceptis decalogi. Rome, 1771. 15pp.

Alphabetum Hebraicum additio samaritano et rabbinico cum oratione dominicale, salutatione angelica, & symbolo apostolico. Rome, 1771. 16pp.

12 leaves of comparative alphabets, including Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldeo-Assyrian.

[Slavic Primer,] in Slavic. Rome, 1753. [2], 78pp. 2 title pages.

AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo (1740-1792). Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive samscrudonicum. Rome, 1772. xxviii, 100pp. 9 folding plates.

Alphabetum Persicum. N.p., n.d. 5pp.

AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo (1740-1792). Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum. Rome, 1773. xvi, 138pp. One folding plate. Brunet I: 197.
A FINE COLLECTION OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRIMERS PUBLISHED BY THE SACRAE CONGREGATIO DE PROPAGANDA FIDE. According to Brunet, these are often found bound together, though no such collections are traceable at auction in the last 30 years, according to American Book Prices Current. Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi ran the Typografia of the Propaganda Fide and was responsible for the design and execution of the types used in many of these works.

[With:] Alphabetum Armenum. Rome, 1784. 8o. 32 pages. 2 unbound gatherings. (3)

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