Title

Machumetis, Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis, Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum vitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran / quo velut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcæ, alijsq[ue] Christo aduersantes populi reguntur ; quæ ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus, Abbas Cluniacensis, per viros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit. His adiunctæ sunt confutationes multoru[m] ... authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinoru[m], unà cum ... Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione, quibus ... peruersa dogmata & tota superstitio Machumetica profligantur. Adiuncti sunt etiam De Turcarum siue Sarracenorum ... origine ac rebus gestis à DCCCC annis ad nostra usq[ue] tempora libelli aliquot lectu dignissimi. Haec omnia in vnum volumen redacta sunt opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri ... qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latinis & Arab. Alcorani textum emendauit & marginibus apposuit annotationes quibus doctrinae Machumeticae absurditas ... atq[ue] alia id genus indicantur.

Short Title

Koran. Latin.

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Switzerland

Released date

1550

Author

Language

2126

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Language: Latin; Arabic; Greek Notes The 2nd ed., rev. and enl., of the translation of the Koran by Robertus Retenensis and Hermannus Dalmata under the direction of Peter the Venerable. The "Praemonitio ad lectorem", erroneously attributed to Luther in some issues of the 1543 ed., is here correctly ascribed to Melanchthon. Index Aureliensis and Adams give Basel as place of publication, Brunet gives Zurich. Woodcut initials. Divisional title pages and separate pagination for "Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam vocant Alcoranum" and "Historiae de Saracenorum". Copy notes Gift of Richard Sybbes (inscription, 1630); College bookplate, 1700. UkCU-JOH

Entry author

Marina Santana