Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machvmetis Saracenorvm Principis, Eivśqve Svccessorvm Vitae, Ac Doctrina, Ipséque Alcoran : Quo uelut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcae, alijq[ue] Christo aduersantes populi regu[n]tur / quae ante annos CCCC, uir multis nominibus, Diui quoq[ue] Bernardi testimonio, clarissimus, D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per uiros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit

Short Title

Al-Qur'ān

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Johann Oporinus ; Nikolaus Brylinger

Language

2070

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Extent: [14] p., 230 p., [9] p., 178 p., [1] p., 163 p.; 2° Language: Ancient Greek; Latin; Arabic Footnote: Bibliograph. Source: Bobzin Koran, type 2 (note 349, p. 210). - Other editions as VD16 K 2584 and VD16 K 2585: In VD16 ZV 18456, a preface by Martin Luther was bound on an additional sheet [gamma] 2, resulting in a different volume number; in VD16 K 2584 = Benz.Luth.2767, Luther is named, but the preface was actually written by Melanchthon; in VD16 K 2585 = Benz.Luth. 2767, Melanchthon is named as the author of the preface, not Luther. - Part 2 with the interlude: Confvtationes Legis Machvmeticae, Qvam Vocant Alcoranvm ... Adiecta quoq[ue] est Lodouici Viuis Valentini ... de Mahumete & Alcorano eius Censura ... - Part 3 with the interlude: Historiae De Saracenorvm Sive Tvrcarvm Origine, Moribvs, Nequitia, religione gestis ... - The Koran was translated by Robertus Retenensis and Hermannus Dalmata. - Text in the 2nd part partly in Greek in Greek scripts - bow signatures: [Part 1:] alpha-beta 6 gamma 2 a-u6 (beta 6b and gamma 2b blank); [Part 2:] *4 A-P6 (P6 blank); [Part 3:] aa-nn6 oo4 (oo4b blank).

Entry author

Marina Santana