Orbis Christianus, signum Crucis, variis linguis et propriis cujusque linguae characteribus exhibens
By: edente J.J. Marcel
Contributors: Gregory XVI, Pope, 1765-1846, dedicatee
Published: 1844
Place of publication: Paris
Language: lat
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Printing; Specimens; Type and type-founding; Oriental type
Notes: Mock-up for a polyglot type-specimen book, apparently never published. Types depicted include Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Armenian, Georgian, Ossetic, Brahman, Malabaric, Tamil, Tibetan, Tatarian, Uiguric, Chinese, Malay, and Tagalog.

Title page and dedication leaf have cut-out pieces of printed and ms. text mounted within red wood-block borders; title page device. Text throughout within a red wood-block border on recto of each leaf, border only on verso; type specimens within decorative border are printed in black, cut out and mounted.