Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min athni ʻashar min talāmīdh =
Subtitle: Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius
Contributors: Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630, artist; Parasole, Leonardo, approximately 1570-approximately 1630, engraver; Tipografia medicea orientale
Publisher: In Typographia Medicea
Published: 1591
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Wood-engraving, Italian; Latin Interlinear translations; Bible
Other titles: Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius; Evangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius; Bible. Gospels. Latin. 1591.; Evangelium sanctum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne.
Work titles: Bible. Gospels. Arabic. 1591
Notes: Edited by Giovanni Battista Raimondi.

Title from caption. The intended prefatory matter was apparently never published. Text begins on page 9.

Imprint from colophon.

Illustrated with 149 woodcuts, printed from 68 blocks, by Leonardo Norsino after Antonio Tempesta.

According to the British Library there was a reissue of this edition printed at Florence in 1774, which was made up of original sheets, with the addition of 4 preliminary leaves containing titlepage and preface. The Latin title of which is: "Evangelium sanctum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne."

Adams B1806

Darlow & Moule 1637

BM Arabic 387

USTC 801540

Text of Gospels in Arabic, with interlinear Latin translation.

Text of Gospels in Arabic, with interlinear Latin translation. Colophon and note from the printer to the reader in Latin.

Bound in vellum; gilt label on spine.