The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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Machumetis, Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, pages 8 and 9
Machumetis, Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, pages 8 and 9

Dublin Core

Title

Machumetis, Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, pages 8 and 9

Subject

Islam and the Toledan Collection

Description

2nd edition of the revised version of the twelfth-century Latin Quran translation, accompanied by Latin translations of Islamic theological literature

Publisher

Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568

Date

1550

Contributor

Robert, of Ketton, fl. 1141-1157
Bibliander, Theodorus, approximately 1504-1564
Hermann, of Carinthia

Language

lat

Identifier

CLIO id: 4561626

MODS

Key Date

1550

Type of Date

exact

Publication Place

Basle

Publication Date

1550

Form/Genre

books

Repository Name

nnc-ut

Shelf Location

Union Rare Folio OT41 P49 1550

Notes

in 1543 Oporinus printed the 1st edition of which at least 6 different versions are known (cf. Hartmut Bobzin, "Zur Anzahl der Drucke von Biblianders Koranausgabe im Jahr 1543," Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 85, 1985, pp. 213-219 )
in the same year, Oporinus also printed "De humani corporis fabrica libri VII" by Andreas Vesalius

references:
VD16 K 2586
Kurt Guggisberg, "Bibliander, Theodor," in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 2, 1955, p. 215, available online: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz4368.html (accessed 11 June 2011)
Theodorus Bibliander, Le Coran à la Renaissance: Plaidoyer pour une traduction, tr. and notes by Henri Lamarque, Toulouse 2007
Charles Burnett, "Ketton, Robert of (fl. 1141-1157)," in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, available online: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24529 (accessed 11 June 2011)
Hans Jürgen Rieckenberg, "Hermann von Kärnten,“ in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 8, 1969, pp. 646-647, available online: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz30113.html (accessed 11 June 2011)

Language of Cataloging

eng

Digital Origin

rd

Collection

Burke [UTS] Union Rare

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

book

Physical Dimensions

30 x 21.25 x 5.75 cm

Citation

“Machumetis, Saracenorum principis, eiuśque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran, pages 8 and 9,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed April 25, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/quran/item/6103.

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