Title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis

Full title

Machumetis Saracenorum Principis, ejusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran..., quae ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus abbas Cluniacensis per viros eruditos ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curavit. His adjunctae sunt confutationes multorum, & quidem probatissimorum authorum, Arabum, Graecorum, & Latinorum, unà cum ... Martini Lutheri praemonitione ... Adjunctae sunt etiam, Turcarum ... res gestae maximè memorabiles, à DCCCC annis ad nostra usque tempora. Haec omnia in unum volumen redacta sunt opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri

Short Title

Title in English

Printer

Released place

Basel

Released date

1543

Author

Theodor Bibliander

Language

2196

Qur'an

Translation

Qur'an structure

Suras

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Arabic Type

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Format: 3 t. en 1 vol. ([23-1 bl.-]230-[9-1 bl.] ; [8-]178-[2 bl.] ; 163-[1 bl.] p.) ; in-fol. Signatures: [alpha]-[beta]6, [gamma] 2, a-u6; *4, A-P6; aa-nn6, oo4 First edition of the Qur'an in Latin published by Bibliander and Melanchthon based on the 12th-century translation by Peter the Venerable, Robert of Ketton, and Hermann of Dalmatia, and printed for Jean Oporin in Basel in 1543 by Nikolaus Brylinger. First issue with the "Praemonitione" under the name of Luther (other issues: the second attributing them to both Luther and Melanchthon, the third solely to Melanchthon, their true author). Notes on the copy According to the colophon of piece 2, Mercier St Léger, in a handwritten note, dates piece 1 to 1543, in Basel, by Nicolas Brylinger at the expense of J. Oporinus. DELTA 600 RES (P.1)

Entry author

Marina Santana