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 ... Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione ... Adjunctae sunt etiam, Turcaru[m] ... res gestae maximè memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usq[ue] tempora. Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri

Short Title

Coran. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Oporinus

Language

2206

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Format 3 parts ([24]-230-[9-1 bl.] ; [8]-178-[2 bl.] ; 163-[1 bl.] p.) ; folio Notes Own title pages for parts 2 and 3 On the verso of the title page, a letter to the reader from Bibliander dated 1543. In part 3, preface by Bibliander ‘De historiae hujus utilitate...’, dated 1537 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. Another, virtually identical edition appeared in the same year under the title ‘Machumetis... vita...’. John VI Cantacuzene's ‘Contra mahometicam fidem...’ is often bound in a sequel. Particularity of the copy Restored 16th century basane binding, cold decoration of fillets, azure roulette, central finial and corner finials, 6-rib spine; old ms inscription on title page. 3 parts in 1 volume Bound with : Joannis Cantacuzeni Constantinopolitani regis contra mahometicam fidem christiana & orthodoxa assertio, graecae conscripta ante annos feré ducentos, nunc vero Latinitate donata / John VI, 1543

Entry author

Marina Santana