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Hindustan alphabet

BELIGATTI, Cassianus da Macerata & Giovani Cristoforo AMADUZZI.
Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis kasi.

Woodcut title vignet of the seal of the congregation, Nagari script throughout text.

Woodcut title vignet of the seal of the congregation, Nagari script throughout text.



Rome, Typis Sa. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1771. 8vo. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, red gilt title label, blue sprinkled edges. Woodcut title vignet of the seal of the congregation, Nagari script throughout text. (4), XX, 152 pp.

First and only edition of a Hindustan alphabet prepared with the collaboration of Cassianus (da Macerata) Beligatti (1708-1791) and edited by Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi (1740-1792), the director of the Congregation. The alphabet and the Hindustani portions of the text are printed in the Nagari (Devanagari) characters. It includes the Lord's prayer, the Ave Maria and the Apostles creed in Hindustani with interlinear Latin text.
Good copy.
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani 21, pp. 477-8.

Related Subjects: India  Linguistics  Mission  Religion 

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