Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 10, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 36
Notes:
"Matthew, tr. by Nathaniel Sabat, an Arab from Baghdad, under the direction of Henry Martyn, chaplain of the East India Company, pub. by British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) in Serampore." T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2 vols, (London, 1903–1911), vol. 2, part 3: 1202. Martyn sent the text of the Persian Matthew to the printer on 6 June 1808. John Sargent, A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn London, 1819, p. 261
Joseph Maylin (ca. 1769-1834) was an Englishman who at the age of fifteen went to India, "where, under the preaching of the venerable [Baptist missionary Rev. William] Carey, he was converted and baptized. He became eminently successful in mercantile pursuits" and in 1806 arrived in the U.S., where he subsequently settled in Philadelphi as a preacher of the gospel. Baron Stow, A History of the English Baptist Mission to India (Philadelphia, 1835), pp. 100-101
See also https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/187
Title Information:
Matthew in Persian
Imprint Information:
Serampore, 1808
