[?Motte (Benjamin)] Oratio Dominica, with half-title 'The Lords Prayer in above a Hundred Languages, Versions, and Characters', title with engraved vignette by Sturt of a dog minding sheep, lacking final blank, [Sabin 57434; Wing M2944], Dan.Brown & W.Keblewhite, 1700 bound with Fabricius (J.A.) Votum Davidicum, cor novum crea in me Deus, text in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German & others, Hamburg, widow of Felginer, 1729 and [Luedecke (Thomas)] Orationes Dominicae versiones fermè centum, half-title, lacking title and dedication, with 4pp. errata, contemporary ink inscription to half-title and a few marginalia, staining to inner margin of first two leaves, [Berlin], [1660]], together 3 works in 1 vol., some browning, a few head-lines shaved, with contemporary ink manuscript index to front free endpaper (two items removed, leaf becoming loose), eighteenth century half calf, rubbed, broken, 4to
⁂ Collections of prayers and orations in various languages, including Ethiopic, Amharic, Coptic, Arabic, Samarian, Syriac, various Slavonic types, Georgian, Armenian, Chinese, and Poconchi. The first is attributed by Wing to Benjamin Motte but appears to be a version of the last, both contain engravings of the Lord's Prayer in various scripts and the word 'Pater' in numerous languages.
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