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46. [Lord’s Prayer, in 155 languages]. Oratio dominica in CLV. linguas. Parma: Typis Bodonianis, 1806.

This edition of the Lord’s Prayer in 155 languages is considered one of the finest achievements of Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813), whose elegant type designs stood out during a period of declining typographic standards. Requiring a remarkable number of fonts for a single publication, the 155 translations serve as handsome type specimens for their specific alphabets.

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