[2][3] It is the first known book printed in Arabic with movable type.

Miroslav Krek determined it was very probably printed in Venice, despite the colophonic attribution to Fano,[5] although this is disputed.

[3][6] Other sources claim it was in fact printed in Fano, at an Arabic printing press established by Pope Julius II.

[1][4] The psalms used are those of the eleventh-century Melkite bishop, Abd Allah ibn al-Fadl.

[7] The scholar Nuria Torres Santo Domingo located a number of existing copies,[2] listed below: Italy France United Kingdom Germany Netherlands Spain Sweden Egypt United States