Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum uitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran : quo uelut authentico legum diunarium codice Agareni & Turcæ, alij[que] Christo aduersantes populi regūtur quæ ante annos CCCC, uir multis nominibus, Diui quo[que] Bernardi testimonio, clarissimus, D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per uiros eruditos, ad fidei Christianæ ac sanctæ matris ecclesiæ propugnationem, ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit. His adiunctæ sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Græcorum, & Latinorum, una cum excellentiss. theologi Martini Lutheri præmonitione. Quibus uelut instructissima fidei Catholicæ propugnatorum acie, peruersa dogmata & tota superstitio Machumetica profligantur ... / hæc omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandr

Short Title

Qur'an. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Oporinus

Language

2123

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

Link to library catalogue

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Individuals

Descriptive card

Format: 2 v. in 1 ([24], 230; [18], 178 p.) ; 29 cm. (fol.) Language: Latin; Greek. Notes: Imprint from Adams. Vol. 2, with a special t.p., includes selections from De veritate fidei Christianae by Juan Luis Vives, unidentified selections from Raffaele Maffei (Volaterranus) and Girolamo Savonarola, the Cribratio Alkorani by Nicholas of Cusa, the Confutatio Alcorani by Ricoldo da Montecroce in Greek translation and Latin retranslation, and the anonymous Christianae fidei confessio facta Saracenis also in Greek translation and Latin retranslation. Signatures: α⁶ β⁶ a-u⁶ *⁴ A-P⁶ (P6 blank). Woodcuts: initials. -- The Confutatio Alcorani and the Christianae fidei confessio facta Saracenis printed in double columns; printed marginalia throughout. Errors in pagination: 27 then 38-44; 60 then 52; 170 then 163. Second v. includes one work in parallel Hebrew text and Latin translation, printed in double columns. Copy notes: Bequest; W. Branthwaite; 1619. UkCU-CAI Provenance: book label describing Branthwaite bequest. UkCU-CAI Binding: full calf, border (triple blind fillet), centre-piece, board edges blind tooled (single fillet), no endpapers; all edges red; raised bands, blind tooling on spine (single fillets by bands, double fillet at top and bottom), gold tooling (single fillets) and gold lettering on red spine label; rebacked. UkCU-CAI Imperfect: description in Adams includes a third numbered page sequence. UkCU-CAI Item no. 1 in volume F.35.1. UkCU-CAI William Branthwaite is of Gonville and Caius College. UkCU-CAI Contents: t. 1. Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum uitæ, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran ... [etc.] -- t. 2. Confutationes legis Machumeticæ, quam uocant Alcoranum ... / adiecta quo[que] est Lodouici Viuis Valentini ... de Mahumete & Alcorano eius censura, ex libris ipsius De veritate fidei Christianæ decerpta, unà cum alijs lectu dignissimis.

Entry author

Marina Santana