AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristofano. Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae finitimarumque regionum. Romae, typis Sacrae Congreg. De Propaganda Fide, 1776Legato con: Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum universitatis Kasi’. Romae, typis Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1771 Legato con: Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum. Romae, typis Sac. Congregationis de propaganda fide, 17723 libri in un volume in-8vo, mm. 171x113. Legatura in cartonato decorato con motivi geometrici. I opera: (prima carta bianca), Pagine, [4, compreso Frontespizio], VII XLIV, 51, 1 bianca, 1 carta di tavola ripiegata fuori testo, incisa in rame. Carattere Italico, Romano, Birmano. Testo inquadrato in cornice ornata xilografica. Manca la prima carta bianca.II opera: Pagine XX, compreso Frontespizio, 152. Carattere Italico, Romano, Sanskrito.III opera: Pagine XXVIII, compreso Frontespizio, 100, 9 carte di tavola fuori testo ripiegate, impresse in xilografia, una posta dopo pagina 12, le altre numerate I-VIII, dopo pagina 88. Carattere Italico, Romano, Malayalam. Marca tipografica della Propaganda Fide ai tre Frontespizi. Ex Libris “Claus Schedl’ al primo Frontespizio.Buon esemplare.Importante raccolta di tre opere in prima edizione della Propaganda Fide. Tutte le opere sono curate dal grande orientalista, storico e teologo Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, che dirigeva la Sacra Congregazione e pubblicava opere ad uso dei missionari operanti in Asia. Queste tre grammatiche riguardano rispettivamente: la lingua birmana, opera di Melchiorre Carpani; alfabeto sanscrito usato all'Università Kasi, Benares, con testi cristiani in latino e hindi paralleli; il Malayalam, lingua dravidica dell'India settentrionale originario del Kerala, con i caratteri incisi da Clemente Peani.Smitskamp “The best known products of the Propaganda Press, apart from its missals, grammars, and dictionaries, are the Alphabeta”.I: Smitskamp 193 “… The Alphabetum written by Melchior Carpanius. The introduction is by Amadutius. Amadutius proudly asserts to have been the first to exhibit Burmese type: neither Charles Morlon in 1759, nor Fritz & Schultze (Leipzig 1748), nor Chamberlayn, nor Diderot’s Encyclopédie in fact had this type”. Cordier Indosinica 351 & 287; Birrell & Garnett 18II: Smitskamp 206; Birrell & Garnett 12.III: Brunet I, 197; Birrell & Garnett 16; de Gubernaties 329; Smitskamp PO 207.

AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristofano. Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae Finitimarumque Regionum.
Romae, typis Sacrae Congreg. De Propaganda Fide, 1776
Bound with: Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum universitatis Kasi'.Romae, typis Sac. Congregationis de Propagazione. Faith, 1771
Bound with: Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum.Romae, typis Sac. Congregationis de propaganda fide, 1772
3 books in one volume in-8vo, mm. 171x113. Cardboard binding decorated with geometric motifs.I: (first leaf blank), Pages, [4, including Title Page], VII XLIV, 51, 1 blank, 1 plate folded outside the text, engraved in copper. Italic, Roman, Burmese type. Text within an ornate woodcut frame. The first blank leaf is missing.II: XX pages, including Title Page, 152. Italic, Roman, Sanskrit type.III: Page XXVIII, including Title Page, 100, 9 folded out-of-text table leaves, printed in woodcut, one placed after page 12, the others numbered I-VIII, after page 88. Italic, Roman, Malayalam type.Devices of the Propaganda Fide to the three Titlepages. Ex Libris “Claus Schedl” on the first title page. Good copy.
Important collection of three works in the first edition of the Propaganda Fide. All the works are edited by the great orientalist, historian and theologian Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi, who directed the Sacred Congregation and published works for the use of missionaries operating in Asia. These three grammars concern respectively: the Burmese language, by Melchiorre Carpani; A Sanskrit alphabet as used at Kasi University, Benares, with Christian texts in parallel Latin and Hindi; Malayalam, the Dravidian language of northern India originating from Kerala, with characters engraved by Clemente Peani.Smitskamp “The best known products of the Propaganda Press, apart from its missals, grammars, and dictionaries, are the Alphabeta”
I: Smitskamp 193 “… The Alphabetum written by Melchior Carpanius. The introduction is by Amadutius. Amadutius proudly asserts to have been the first to exhibit Burmese type: neither Charles Morlon in 1759, nor Fritz & Schultze (Leipzig 1748), nor Chamberlayn, nor Diderot’s Encyclopédie in fact had this type”. Cordier Indosinica 351 & 287; Birrell & Garnett 18II: Smitskamp 206; Birrell & Garnett 12.III: Brunet I, 197; Birrell & Garnett 16; de Gubernaties 329; Smitskamp PO 207.