Title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, : quo uelut authenico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcæ, alijq́[ue] Christo aduersantes populi reguntur.

Short Title

Qur'an. Latin

Title in English

Printer

Oporinus

Released place

Released date

1550

Author

Language

2251

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

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Arabic Type

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Quae ante annos CCCC, uir multis nominibus, Diui quoq[ue] Bernardi testimonio, clarissimus, D. Petrus Abbas Cluniacensis, per uiros eruditos, ad fidei Christianæ ac sanctæ matris Ecclesie̜ propugnationem, ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit. His adiunctae sunt Confutationes multoru[m], & quidem probatiss. authorum, Arabum, Græcorum, & Latinoru[m], unà cum doctiss. uiri Philippi Melanchthonis præmonitione. Quibus uelut instructissima fidei Catholicæ propugnatorum acie, peruersa dogmata & tota superstitio Machumetica profligantur. Adiuncti sunt etiam De Turcarum, siue Sarracenorum ... origine, ac rebus gestis, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usq[ue] tempora, libelli aliquot lectu dignissimi. ... Hæc omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri, Ecclesiæ Tigurinæ ministri, qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latinis & Arab. Alcorani textum emendauit, & marginibus apposuit annotationes, quibus doctrinæ Machumeticæ absurditas ... atq[ue] alia id genus indicantur. ... Authors: Christoph Froschauer approximately 1490-1564,(Printer)Joannes Oporinus 1507-1568,(Printer)Theodorus Bibliander approximately 1504-1564.Philip Melanchthon 1497-1560. [24], 227, [9] pages, 358, [2] columns, [1], 235, [1] pages ; 31 cm (folio). "Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam uocant Alcoranum ..." (leaf *1) and "Historiae de Saracenorum siue Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis ..." (leaf aa1) have separate title-pages. Place of publication and publisher statement from VD 16. BM STC German gives imprint as [C. Froschauer : Zurich]. Not in Vischer, M. Bib. der zürcher Druckschriften. Index Aureliensis & Adams give Basel as place of publication, Brunet gives Zurich. Second edition. The first was the 1543 Basel edition of Oporinus. Cf. Brunet. Signatures: α⁶ β⁶ a-t⁶ *⁴ A-P⁶, aa-nn⁶ oo⁴ pp-uu⁶. Initials and printed marginalia.

Entry author

Marina Santana