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English: Lithuanian language in the Europa Polyglotta map by Gottfried Hensel (1741).
Tewe musu kursey esi danguy. Szweskis wardas Tawo
("Our Father, which art in Heaven. Hallowed be thy Name.")
The text is taken from the unfinished Lithuanian Bible, translated at Oxford by Samuel Bogusław Chyliński and printed in London in 1660 (the first complete Lithuanian Bible appeared only in 1755, in Königsberg).
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Source Scan from A. Bumblauskas, Senosios Lietuvos istorija 1009 - 1795
Author Gottfried Hensel
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Detail of the Europa Polyglotta published with Synopsis Universae Philologiae in 1741; the map gives the first phrase of the Lord's Prayer in 33 different languages of Europe

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