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

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Title in English

Printer

Released place

Released date

1543

Author

Language

2208

Qur'an

Qur'an structure

Suras

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Descriptive card

3 parts en 1 vol. ([23, 1 bl.], 230, [9, 1 bl.] ; [8], 178, [2 bl.] ; 163, [1 bl.] p.) ; in-fol. On verso of title page, Bibliander's letter to the Christian reader dated 1543 Contributions by Paolo Giovio, Raffaele Maffei, Francesco Negro, Bartolomeo Picerno, Guillaume Postel, Jacopo Sadoleto, Juan Luis Vives Note 1st edition of the Koran in Latin by Bibliander and Melanchton based on the 12th century translation by Peter the Venerable, Robert de Ketton and Herman the Dalmatian, printed for John Oporin in Basel in 1543 by Nikolaus Brylinger. 3rd issue with the ‘Praemonitione’ under the name of Melanchton, their true author, the 1st issue attributing them to Luther and the 2nd issue to Luther and Melanchton. Content note The first part contains the first edition of the Koran in Latin, based on the 12th-century translation by Peter the Venerable, Robert of Ketton (Ketenensis or Retenensis) and Herman the Dalmatian, revised by Theodor Bibliander. Material descr. note Sig:( [alpha]-|Beta]6, [gamma] 2, a-u6 ; *4, A-P6 ; aa-nn6, oo4) Ornate woodcut letters. Own title pages for parts 2 and 3.

Entry author

Marina Santana