Author: PAULINUS A S. BARTHOLOMAEO, [WERDIN, JOHANN PHILIP]:
Title: [MALAYALAM] Centum Adagia Malabarica, cum textu originali et versione latina nunc primum in lucem edita. Rome, Antonium Fulgonium, 1791.
Description: . 4to. Pp. 12. With woodcut vignette on title. Parallel text of Malayalam and Latin. Attractive contemporary patterned wrappers. First edition of this Latin translation of Malayalam proverbs. Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in Kerala, Lakshadweep Islands and Pondicherry in India. Johann Philipp Werdin was an Austrian Carmelite missionary who spent fourteen years in India. He mastered many languages and was one of the first to discover the similarity between Sanskrit and Indo-European languages. Rare.

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