Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machvmetis Saracenorum principis, eiúsque svccessorvm vitae, Doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran / Quo uelut authenico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcæ, alijq[ue] Christo aduersantes populi reguntur. Quae ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus, Abbas Cluniacensis, per uiros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit. His adiunctae sunt Confutationes multoru[m] ... authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinoru[m], unà cum ... Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione, Quibus ... 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 ... Haec omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri ... qui collatis etiam exemplaribus Latinis & Arab. Alcorani textum emendauit, & marginibus apposuit annotationes, quibus doctrinae Machumeticae absurditas ... atq[ue] alia id genus indicantur ...

Short Title

Qur'an

Title in English

Printer

Christoph Froschauer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1550

Author

Oporinus

Language

2128

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

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Arabic Type

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Format: [12], 227, [1] p.; [8] p., 358 columns, [1] p.; 235, [1] p. ; 29 cm (fol.) Notes "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. Initials and printed marginalia. Place of publication and publisher uncertain; Aureliensis and Adams give Basel and Brunet gives Zurich. Statement from VD 16. BM STC German gives imprint as [C. Froschauer : Zurich]. Not in Vischer, M. Bib. der zürcher Druckschriften. Signatures: -⁶ a-t⁶ ; *⁴ A-P⁶ ; 2a-2n⁶ 2o⁴ 2p-2u⁶. The first publication was the 1543 Basel ed. of Oporinus. Cf. Brunet. Copy notes X.13.17[3] Donation; John Laughton. UkCU-TRI V.14.108 Lacks -⁶ and 2a2-2e5. UkCU-TRI X.13.17[3] "Historiae de Saracenorum siue Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis ..." only (lacks 2a2-3). UkCU-TRI

Entry author

Marina Santana