Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eius que successorum vitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran ... : His adiunctae sunt Confutationes multoru[m], & quidem probatiss. authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinoru[m], unà cum doctiss. viri Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione ... : Adiuncti sunt etiam De Turcarum, sive Sarracenorum ... origine, ac rebus gestis, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usq[u]e tempora ... : Quorum omnium Catalogum versa cuiusq[u]e tomi prima pagina reperies ; Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri, Ecclesiae Tigurinae ministri ....

Short Title

Koran

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Zurich

Released date

1550

Author

Language

2163

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

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Arabic Type

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Contains, after title-page: 'Catalogus eorum quae hoc primo Tomo continentur'; 'Philippi Melanchthonis Praemonitio ad Lectorum'; 'Christiano Lectori Theodorus Bibliander S.'; 'Ad Reverendissimos Patres ac Dominos Episcopos et Doctores ecclesiarum ChristiApologia pro editione Alcorani: Theodoro Bibliandro Authore'; [Part I, beginning with: 'Epistola Domini Petri Abbatis, ad Dominum Bernhaedum Claraevallis Abbatem, de translatione sua, qua fecit transferri ex Arabico in Latinum, sectam, sive haeresim Saracenorum' (pp 1-227). In the Percy copy the first section is followed by: 'Historiae de Saracenorum sive Turcarum origine ... Accesserunt huic editioni quaedam in priore omissa, necdum edita, ut versa pagina lector cognosces' (pp [1]-235); this part is headed by a manuscript note in an 18th-century hand: 'Tom. III. Tom. II. v. ad fin hujs. Tom. III' A manuscript note (in the 18th-century hand of TN Bridges ?), reading 'Tom. II', heads the last and third section of the Percy volume, which is in fact the second part, according to the general title-page; it is entitled: 'Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam vocant Alcoranum ... Quorum catalogum versa pagina continet. Adiecta quoq; est Lodovici Vivis Valentini, viri doctissimi, de Mahumete & Alcorano eius Censura ... Item Ioannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani regis, contra Mahometicã fidem Christiana& orthodoxa assertio, quatuor libris comprehensa, & per Rodolphum Gualtherum Tigurinum è Graeco ante annos ferè CC scripto in latinum sermonem conversa ... ' (95 leaves). Format [xxiii], 227, 235, [viii], 95 leaves. Note: 'Zurich', as place of publication, supplied from the 'Tiguri' of the general title, and cited by NUC. Three parts in one volume: part 3 bound after part 1 and before part 2 in the Percy volume; part 2 is foliated, with two numbered columns to a page, ranging from numbers 1 to 358; woodcut initials. The NUC describes this work as '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. Vol. 2 contains treatises by Juan Vives, Volaterranus, Savonarola, Nicolaus Cusanus, Luther and others. Vol. 3, first printed in 1530 under title, 'Libellus de ritu et moribus Turcorum', has pref. by Luther and includes 'Homilia' by Sadoleto'. Part I has general title-page only; parts II and III have each a separate, sectional title-page: title of part 3, bound after the first part in the Percy volume, reads: 'Historiae de Saracenorum sive Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis ... '; title of part 2, which here follows the third part, reads: 'Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam vocant Alcoranum ...

Entry author

Marina Santana