Ɵ Hand-carved Wood-block, engraved with "Safr Nishd al-Nishad li-Suleyman" (the Song of Solomon), for use as printing block, together with a print on eighteenth-century paper [probably Ottoman provinces, mid-eighteenth century]single block of carved wood, some small worm-holes, carved side stained black from ink used for printing, total c. 170 by 90 by 220 mm.; together with a print of the text reading "Safr Nishd al-Nishad li-Suleyman wa'ighal ba-l'Abraniyat Sir Hashirim", on a piece of eighteenth-century paper pasted to a cutting from a Croatian printed book (Pasha Duhovna, on Spirituality and the Passover), 165 by 105 mm.Printed in Ottoman Turkish for a Hebrew publication of the Song of Solomon, probably produced in the Ottoman regions of the Levant for a rural printing press. A rare survival of a printing tool, and also an important witness to cross-cultural printing for a minority audience in the Ottoman world. Printing devices are often discarded or recycled and rarely survive in such conditions as the present example. The subject matter is equally important, as it represents a minority audience in the well-established world of Ottoman printing for the Islamic population.
Ɵ Hand-carved Wood-block, engraved with "Safr Nishd al-Nishad li-Suleyman" (the Song of Solomon), for use as printing block, together with a print on eighteenth-century paper [probably Ottoman provinces, mid-eighteenth century]single block of carved wood, some small worm-holes, carved side stained black from ink used for printing, total c. 170 by 90 by 220 mm.; together with a print of the text reading "Safr Nishd al-Nishad li-Suleyman wa'ighal ba-l'Abraniyat Sir Hashirim", on a piece of eighteenth-century paper pasted to a cutting from a Croatian printed book (Pasha Duhovna, on Spirituality and the Passover), 165 by 105 mm.Printed in Ottoman Turkish for a Hebrew publication of the Song of Solomon, probably produced in the Ottoman regions of the Levant for a rural printing press. A rare survival of a printing tool, and also an important witness to cross-cultural printing for a minority audience in the Ottoman world. Printing devices are often discarded or recycled and rarely survive in such conditions as the present example. The subject matter is equally important, as it represents a minority audience in the well-established world of Ottoman printing for the Islamic population.
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