Ketaba dewangeliwan qadisha' demaran wa'lahan Yeshu' Meshiḥa ...
Subtitle: Liber sacrosancti euangelii de Iesu Christo Domino & Deo nostro : reliqua hoc codice comprehensa pagina proxima indicabit : Div. Ferdinandi Rom. imperatoris designati iussu & liberalitate, characteribus & lingua Syra, Iesu Christo vernacula, diuino ipsius ore co[n]secrata, et à Ioh. Eua[n]gelista Hebraica dicta, scriptorio prelo dilige[n]ter expressa ...
Contributors: Widmanstetter, Johann Albrecht, 1506?-1557; Zimmermann, Michael, -1565, printer; Moses, Mardenus
Publisher: Michael Cymbermannus ... excudebat
Published: 1555
Place of publication: In vrbe Vienna
Language: syr
Other titles: Liber sacrosancti euangelii de Iesu Christo Domino & Deo nostro; Liber sacrosancti evangelii de Jesu Christo Domino & Deo nostro; Ktābā d-ʾewangelewan qadišaʾ d-maran wʾalahan Yešuʻ Mšiḥa
Work titles: Bible. New Testament. Syriac. 1555
Notes: Title in red and black; some text also in black and red.

Colophon: In Vrbe Vienna, amplissimarum orientalis Austriae prouinciarum metropoli florentissima, ad hunc exitum perductum est diuinum hoc opus, anno a Christi natiuitate M.D. LV. XXVII. Septembris. Regiis impensis. Caspar Craphtus Eluangensis, Sueuus, characteres Syros ex norici ferri acie sculpebat. Michael Cymbermannus prelo et operis suis excudebat.

1st ed. (and 1st issue?) of the Syriac N.T. in the Peshitta version, and the first book printed in Syriac. This ed. edited by Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter, assisted by a Syrian priest named Moses Meredinaeus (i.e. of Mardin).

The Syriac type was prepared under the direction of Guillaume Postel and cut by Kaspar Kraft, a Swabian artist of Ellwangen.

The table of contents on verso of 2d prelim. leaf calls for a dedication to the Archduke Ferdinand preceding the Acts and one to the Archduke Karl preceding the Epistles of James, Peter & John.

13 full page woodcuts of an emblematic character, with coats of arms and symbols, concerning the Emperor Ferdinand I, at whose expense the book was published; two woodcuts represent the crucifixion and the Pietas.

"The date 9 Jan. 1555 at the end of the general dedication has been altered in all known copies to 9 Jun. 1555, the word Ianuarij being changed by erasure and insertion with the pen to Iunij." cf. Darlow and Moule, vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 1528.

Burke Library copy: Laid in: Correspondence from Isaac H. Hall to Dr. Huntington, 1887, regarding sale of the item.

Burke Library copy: Bookplate of Auburn Theological Seminary, with cataloger's note tipped in above bookplate: "UTS has a copy of this editio princeps of the Syriac NT, which differs considerably from this Auburn copy. To mention only one variation: the title page of the Auburn copy has the title in red Syriac characters with black pointing. In the UTS copy, the Syriac characters are in black and the points in red. For description see Darlow and Moule no. 8947. Both the UTS and the Auburn copies are "Variant A" (Darlow & Moule p. 1530), but they also vary from each other!!!!"

Burke Library copy: Register errors in red and black printing on t.p.

With: Syriacae linguae ... prima elementa ... Viennae Austriacae : Michael Cymbermannus, 1555.

Darlow & Moule, 1555

Brunet, V, 743

Gras̈se, VI, part 2, 103

VD16 B 4584