Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Antica del Seminario Vescovile di Padova

Collection

Maniscritti

Present shelfmark

Seminario Padova, MS 497

Former shelfmark

Total pages

I, 272,I'; I, 396, I'; I, 408, I'; I, 470, I'; I, 408, I' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

vol. I, p.1 - vol. V, p. 407

Title on manuscript

R.P. Ludovici Marracci / Congregationis Matris Dei / Confutatio Alcorani / notis, textu Arabico et / latino illustrata / Patavij Typis Seminarij / Super : permissu

Title position

vol. I, p. I

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic,Latin

Script

Arabic,Latin

Incipit

ALCORANI / سورة الفاتحة مكية / سبع ايات / SURA .I / APERIENS / MECCANA COMMATUM .VII / I. In nomine Dei Miseratoris Misericordis

Incipit position

vol. I, p. 1

Explicit

Christianam tantum Religionem sequantur, Deum enixè precare.

Explicit position

vol. V, p. 407

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1692

Released place

Rome

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

These 5 volumes are the printer's copy, and latest redaction of Marracci's work in his own hand. They show at the beginning and/or ending of each volume censorship notes dated 1692. On the margins are final corrections made by Marracci himself and then included in the final edition.

Entry author

Sara Fani