Title

Machumetis Sarracenorum Principis vita, ac doctrina omnis, quae & Ismahelitarum lex & Alcoranum dicitur

Full title

Machumetis Sarracenorum Principis vita, ac doctrina omnis, quae & Ismahelitarum lex & Alcoranum dicitur, ex Arabica lingua ante CCCC annos in Latinam translata... Adjectae quoque sunt annotationes, confutationes, Sarracenorum ac rerum Turcicarum a DCCCC annis ad nostra usque tempora memorabilium historiae, ex probatissimis autoribus, tum Arabibus, tum Latinis & Graecis... Item Martini Lutheri... praemonitio ad lectorem... Theodori Bibliandri ... pro Alcorani editione Apologia, multa eruditione & pietate referta...

Short Title

Coran. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Oporinus

Language

2205

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Notes Own title pages for parts 2 and 3 The Praemonitio is here put under Luther's name. Other copies bear the name of Melanchton, who, according to Göllner, Turcica, I, 792, is the real author. Part 3 opens with a letter to Luther's reader. Sig.: [alpha]-|Beta]6, a-u6 ; *4, A-P6 ; aa-nn6, oo4 Ornate woodcut letters Notes on the edition The first part contains the first edition of the Qur'an in Latin, based on the 12th-century translation by Peter the Venerable, Robert of Ketton (Ketenensis or Retenensis) and Herman the Dalmatian, revised by Bibliander. An almost identical edition appeared the same year under the title ‘Machumetis... ejusque successorum vitae...’.

Entry author

Marina Santana