Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis, ejusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran..., quae ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per viros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curavit. His adjunctae sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, unà cum ... Martini Lutheri praemonitione ... Adjunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum ... res gestae maximè memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usque tempora. Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri

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Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Language

2201

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

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Arabic Type

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1st edition of the Koran in Latin by Bibliander and Melanchton based on the 12th-century translation by Peter the Venerable, Robert de Ketton and Herman the Dalmatian, printed for John Oporin in Basel in 1543 by Nikolaus Brylinger. 1st issue with the ‘Praemonitione’ under Luther's name (other issues: the 2nd attributed them to Luther and Melanchton, the 3rd only to Melanchton, their true author). Sacred book of the Muslims: the revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between 612 and 632 were not fixed until the third caliph ‘Uthmān ibn ’Affān (644-656). Written in Arabic, the language of revelation, the Qur'an consists of 114 chapters or suras (sūra), subdivided into verses (āyāt) arranged in descending order of length, corresponding to a rule of Semitic poetics. 3 t. en 1 vol. ([23-1 bl.-]230-[9-1 bl.] ; [8-]178-[2 bl.] ; 163-[1 bl.] p.) ; in-fol.

Entry author

Marina Santana