Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, : quo uelut authenico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcæ, alijq́[ue] Christo aduersantes populi reguntur.

Short Title

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1550

Author

Oporinus

Language

2133

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Further information: 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. ... . Format: [24], 227, [9] p., 358, [2] columns, [1], 235, [1] p. ; fol. Froschauer, Christoph, approximately 1490-1564, printer. Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568, printer. General Note : "Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam uocant Alcoranum ..." (leaf *1) and "Historiae de Saracenorum siue Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis ..." (leaf aa1) have separate title-pages. General Note : Place of publication and publisher statement from VD 16. BM STC German gives imprint as [C. Froschauer : Zurich]. Not in Vischer, M. Bib. der zürcher Druckschriften. General Note : Index Aureliensis & Adams give Basel as place of publication, Brunet gives Zurich. General Note : Second ed. The first was the 1543 Basel ed. of Oporinus. Cf. Brunet. General Note : Signatures: [alpha]⁶ [beta]⁶ a-t⁶ *⁴ A-P⁶ aa-nn⁶ oo⁴ pp-uu⁶. General Note : Initials and printed marginalia.

Entry author

Marina Santana