Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran : quo uelut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcæ, alijq́[ue] Christo aduersantes populi reguntur / Quae ante annos CCCC, uir multis nominibus, Diui quoq[ue] Bernardi testimonio, clarissimus, D. Petrus Abbas Cluniacensis, per uiros eruditos, ad fidei Christianæ ac sanctæ matris Ecclesie̜ propugnationem, ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit. His adiunctae sunt Confutationes multoru[m], & quidem probatiss. authorum, Arabum, Græcorum, & Latinoru[m], unà cum doctiss. uiri Philippi Melanchthonis præmonitione. Quibus uelut instructissima fidei Catholicæ propugnatorum acie, 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. ... Hæc omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri, Ecclesiæ Tigurinæ ministri, qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latinis & Arab. Alcorani textum emendauit, & marginibus apposuit annotationes, quibus doctrinæ Machumeticæ absurditas, ... atq[ue] alia id genus indicantur.

Short Title

Qur'an. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1550

Author

Oporinus

Language

2127

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Christoph Froschauer, approximately 1490-1564, printer. Joannes Oporinus, 1507-1568, printer. Theodorus Bibliander, approximately 1504-1564. Robert, of Chester, active 1143, translator. Hermann, of Carinthia, translator. Format: 3 pts. in 1 v. ([22], 227 p.; [8] p., 358 columns; 235 p.) ; 27 cm. (fol.) Notes "Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam uocant Alcoranum ... Adiecta quoq[ue] est Lodovici Viuis Valentini ... de Mahumete et Alcorano eius Censura ... Item Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani regis, contra Mahometica[m] fidem Christiana et orthodoxa assertio ... et per Rodolphum Gualtherum è Graeco ... in latinum sermonem conversa" (leaf *1) and "Historiae de Saracenorum siue Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis ..." (leaf aa1) have separate title-pages. Pt. 3 includes 'Martini Lutheri epistola ad pium lectorem'. Imprint from VD 16. BM STC German gives imprint as [C. Froschauer : Zurich]. Index Aureliensis & Adams give Basel as place of publication, Brunet gives Zurich. Second ed. The first was the 1543 Basel ed. of Oporinus. Cf. Brunet. Originally translated into Latin by Hermannus Dalmata and Robertus Retenensis and edited by Petrus de Montboissier, abbot of Cluny; completed in 1143. Signatures: [alpha]⁶ [beta]⁶ a-t⁶ *⁴ A-P⁶, aa-nn⁶ oo⁴ pp-uu⁶. Initials and printed marginalia. Copy notes: Title page missing. UkCU-CHR

Entry author

Marina Santana