Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusqúe successorum uitae, ac doctrina, ipseqúe 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, ad fidei Christianae ac sanctae matris Ecclesiae propugnationem, ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit. His adiunctae sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, unà cum doctissmi uiri Philippi Melanchthonis praeonitione. Quibus uelutinstructissima fidei Catholica propugnatorum acie, peruersa dogmata & tota superstitio Machumetica prostigantur. Adiunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum ... res gestae maximè memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usuq[ue] tempora. Haec omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt / opera et studio Theodori Bibliandri, ecclesiae Tigurinae ministri, qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latinis & Arab. Alcorani textum emendauit, & marginib. apposuit annotationes, quibus doctrinae Machumeticae absurditas, contradictiones, origines errorum, diuinaeq[ue] Scripturae deprauationes, atq[ue] alia id genus indicantur. Quae quidem in lucem edidit ad gloriam Domini Iesu Christi, & multiplicem ecclesiae utilitatem, aduersus Satanam principem tenebrarum, eiusq[ue] nuncium Antichristum: quem oportet manifestari, & confici spiritu oris Christi seruatoris nostri

Short Title

Qur'an. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Nikolas Brylinger

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Johann Oporinus ; Nikolaus Brylinger

Language

2141

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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General note: Imprint from VD16; First issue of the first printed Latin edition of the Koran, translated by Hermann of Carinthia (Hermannus Dalmata) and Robert of Chester (Robertus Retenensis) under the direction of Peter the Venerable (Petrus de Montboissier, abbot of Cluny); Edited by Theodorus Bibliander; Part 2 has divisional title-page: "Confutationes legis Machumeticae", with separate pagination and register; Part 3 has divisional title-page: "Historiae de Saracenorum sive Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis", with separate pagination and register; Woodcut historiated initials; With printed marginal notes. With: Lambeth copy at C127.L2 bound with: John VI Cantacuzenus. Ioannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani Regis Contra Mahometicam Christiana & orthodoxa assertio. 1543; Sion copy at A77/Al1B bound with: John VI Cantacuzenus. Ioannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani Regis Contra Mahometicam Christiana & orthodoxa assertio. 1543; Sion copy at A77/B47 01 bound first with: John VI Cantacuzenus. Ioannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani Regis Contra Mahometicam Christiana & orthodoxa assertio. 1543. Contributor(s): Brylinger, Nikolas, active 1537-1565, printer. | Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568, publisher. | Bibliander, Theodorus, approximately 1504-1564, editor. | Hermann, of Carinthia, translator. | Peter, the Venerable, approximately 1092-1156 | Robert, of Chester, active 1143, translator. | Tenison's Library, former owner. Language note: Text in Latin and Greek, includes Latin translation of the Arabic Koran, and some parallel text in Latin and Greek. Provenance: Copies at A77/Al1B and A77/B47 01 transferred to Lambeth Palace Library from Sion College, 1996; Sion copy at A77/Al1B has inscriptions on title page: "L. Cappel"; "Tenison Library 1861", with blocked out signature below. Manuscript notes in different hands in Latin and French on front flyleaf; Sion copy at A77/B47 01 has manuscript inscription at head of title-page: "Ex dono Gabr Matthew [?] 1570" and another inscription: "Su[m] Jo: Bourne [?]"; underlinings and marginal marks in ink and in pencil throughout text. Binding information: Sion copy at A77/B47 01 bound in 20th century black buckram over boards with sprinkled red edges; lettered in gilt on spine. Local note: Copy at C127.L2 imperfect; leaves [a]3 and [a]4 missing.

Entry author

Marina Santana