Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipséque Alcoran, quo uelut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcae, alij́q[ue] Christo aduersantes populi regu[n]tur, quae ante annos CCCC uir multis nominibus, Diui quoq[ue] Bernardi testimonio, clarissimus, D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per uiros eruditos, ad fidei Christianae ac sanctae matris Ecclesiae propugnationem,ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit

Short Title

Title in English

Printer

Oporinus

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Johann Oporinus ; Nikolaus Brylinger

Language

2252

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

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Arabic Type

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his adiunctae sunt Confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, uná cum excellentiss. Theologi Martini Lutheri praemonitione. Quibus uelut instructissima fidei Catholicae propugnatorum acie, peruersa dogmata & tota superstitio Machumetica profligantur. ; Adjunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum qui non tam sectatores Machumeticae uaesaniae, quám uindices & propugnatores, nominisq[ue] Christiani acerrimos hostes aliquot iam seculis praestiterunt, res gestae maximé memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usq[ue] tempora. ; Haec omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri ... qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latinis & Arab. Alcorani textum emendavit, & marginib. apposuit Annotationes ... Authors: Joannes Oporinus 1507-1568,(Printer)Nikolas Brylinger approximately 1515-1565,(Printer)Theodorus Bibliander approximately 1504-1564,(Editor)(Commentator for written text)Philip Melanchthon 1497-1560,(Author of introduction, etc.). Imprint from VD 16; date from foreword on title page verso: MDXLIII [1543]. Originally published Latin edition of the Qur'an, edited and compiled by Theodorus Bibliander and based on the translations of Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia and commissioned by Petrus de Montboissier, abbot of Cluny. Volumes also contain several collected works on Islam by European thinkers. Vol. 1 has general title page only ; v. 2-3 each have special title page..Each volume with separate register, and pagination. [Pt. 2] has title: Confvtationes legis Machvmeticae, qvam vocant Alcoranvm ... partim Latinè, partim Graecè ... scriptae ...Adiecta quoque est Lodovici Vivis Valentini ... de Mahumete & Alcorano eius censura .. [Pt. 3] has title: Historiae de Saracenorvm sive Tvrcarvm origine, moribvs, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis: itemq[ue] de ordinatione politiae eorundem domi & foris, & disciplina ac ordine militiae Turcicae, deq[ue] itineribus in Turciam, vna cum uitis omnium Turcicorum imperatorum ad nostra usque tempora ... Signatures: α-β⁶ a-u⁶ ; *⁴ A-P⁶ ; aa-nn⁶ oo⁴. P6 is blank. With woodcut historiated initials and printed marginalia in italics. Dedication by Bibliander on title page verso dated Zurich, January 20th 1543. The praemonitio on leaf [alpha]2-3 is written by Philipp Melanchthon even though Martin Luther is named as author. With introductory letters by Robert of Ketton to Peter of Cluny, and by Peter of Cluny to Bernhard of Clairvaux. With added sura 1, translated by Guillaume Postel. De doctrina Mahumet ('Doctrine of Muḥammad'), a translation of the Masāʾil ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām, an apocryphal account of Muḥammad answering questions from four Jewish inquirers led by Abū al-Ḥārith ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām, originally of the 7th or 8th century, translated by Herman of Carinthia Liber de generatione Mahumet et nutritura eius ('Book of Muḥammad's Genealogy and his Nurturing'),is a translation of Abū al-Ḥasan Bakrī's Kitāb al-anwār. With summary of textual variants used by Bibliander at the end of volume 1; printed in double columns. The Confutatio and the Confessio (in volume 2) printed both in Greek and Latin, in parallel columns. Some errors in paginations in volume 3: 54 printed as 50, 55 as 57 and 59 as 60. On [v1] title page: "Cum caesareae maiest. gratia & priuilegio ad quinquennium."; on [v2-3] title page: "cum gratia & priuilegio imperiali ad septennium."

Entry author

Marina Santana