First book printed with Arabic movable type
Primer libro impreso con tipos móviles árabes
- Date
- 1514 · confidence high
- Place
- Fano, Marche, Italy
- Credited to
- Gregorio de Gregori, commissioned by Pope Julius II
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A book of hours for Melkite Christians printed in Fano with metal Arabic letters. It opened printing in Arabic.
Islamic lands delayed printing in Arabic script; the typography was poor and circulated little.
What it led to
- European Arabic prints such as the Venice Qur'an
- Christian printing in the Near East
- Müteferrika's Ottoman press two centuries later