Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machvmetis Saracenorvm Principis, Eivśqve Svccessorvm Vitae, Ac Doctrina, Ipséque Alcoran : Quo uelut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcae, aliisq[ue] Christo aduersantes populi regu[n]tur, quae ante annos CCCC, uir multis nominibus ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit

Short Title

Al-Qurʾān

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Oporinus

Language

2069

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Contributors: Muḥammad [Other]; Petrus Cluny, Abbot [Other]; Robertus Castrensis [Transl.]; Hermannus Dalmata [Transl.]; Bibliander, Theodor [Ed.]; Luther, Martin [Prr.]; Vives, Juan Luis [Other]; Melanchthon, Philipp [Prr.]; Oporinus, Johann [Printer]; Brylinger, Nikolaus [Printer]. Extent: [12] vol., 230 p., [9] vol., 178 p., [1] vol., 163 p.; 2° Language: Ancient Greek; Latin; Arabic Footnote: Biblical source: Benz.Luth. 2766 - Bobzin Koran Typ.1, note 347, p. 210 - Martin Luther is named as the author of the preface (‘Praemonitio’), but it was written by Philipp Melanchthon. - Not identical with VD16 ZV 18456: a preface by Luther was bound in on an additional sheet [gamma] 2. - Not identical with VD16 K 2585 = Benz.Luth. 2767: there, it is not Luther who is named as the author of the preface, but Melanchthon. - The Koran was translated by Robertus Retenensis and Hermannus Dalmata. - Text in Part 2 partly in Greek in Greek scribal script - collation [Part 1:] alpha-beta 6 a-u6 (beta 6b and gamma 2b blank); [Part 2:] *4 A-P6 (P6 blank); [Part 3:] aa-nn6 oo4 (oo4b blank).

Entry author

Marina Santana