Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis eiuśque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipséque Alcoran, quo velut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcae, alij́q[ue] Christo adversantes 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 adiuncta sunt Confutationes multorum et quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, uná cum excellentiss Theologi Martini Lutheri praemonitione. Quibus uelut instructissima fidei Catholicae propugnatorum acie, peruersa dogmata & tota superstitio Machumetica profligantur. Adiunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum, qui non tam sectatores Machumeticae uaesaniae, quám uindices & propugnatores, nominisq[ue] Christiani acerrimos hostes aliquot iam seculis praestiterunt, res gestae maximé memorabiles à DCCC annis ad nostra usq[ue] tempora. Haec omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, opera et studio Theodori Bibliandri ...

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Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Nikolas Brylinger

Language

2150

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

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Arabic Type

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Note: Texts in Latin and Greek, including Latin translation of the Arabic Koran, and some parallel texts in Latin and Greek. Translated by Hermannus Dalmata and Robertus Retenensis, edited by Theodorus Bibliander. Woodcut historiated initials. Marginalia in italics. Bound together with "Ioannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani regis Contra Mahometicam fidem Christiana & orthodoxa assertio ..." Description: 3 pts. in 1 ([23],230,[9],[8],178,163p) ; fol. Provenance: Title-page of copy 1 inscribed "The 2 of May 1616 Pe. H[?]anwood", "Ex Bibliotheca Leonardini"; "ex dono Davidis Buchanani" and "G. [?]Blagge". Inscribed "Ex libris Bibliotheca Collegii D. Leonardi" on recto of second blank leaf. The first Latin version of the Qur'an, printed by Nicolaus Brylinger in Basle in 1543. The imprimatur was only granted on condition that the book also contained a refutation of the doctrines of the Qur'an.

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Marina Santana