A Failed Attempt to Revise Arabic Typesetting
The Gospel of Matthew in Arabic, Printed with All the Vowels, According to the Simplified Method of the Revd. Jules Ferrette... with an Introductory Explanation of the Method Both in Its Mechanical and Philological Part
First Edition. A proposal for a new design for Arabic type to solve the problem of vowels, which are placed above or below the regular line of type. According to Ferrette, a protestant missionary in Damascus, "The Arabic typography was so complicated in its mechanism, so slow in its working.....
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