Ketaba de'wangeliwan qadisha' demaran wa'lahan yeshu' ...
Subtitle: Liber sacrosancti evangelii de Iesv Christo Domino & Deo nostro. Reliqua hoc codice comprehensa pagina proxima indicabit. Div. Ferdinandi rom. imperatoris designati iussu & liberalitate, characteribus & lingua Syra, Iesv Christo vernacula, diuino ipsius ore cōsecrata, et à Ioh. Euāgelista Hebraica dicta, scriptorio prelo diligēter expressa ...
Publisher: Michael Cymermannus
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: syr
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 129
Work titles: Bible New Testament Syriac 1555
Notes: Signatures: a*, a**, a***, a****, a*****⁴, a******⁶, a-z, A-L, bb-ββ, Aa*, Aa**, Bb-Vv⁴, Xx⁶, AA-LL⁴.

Title in red and black; some text also in black and red.

Colophon: In Vrbe Vienna, amplissimarvm orientalis Avstriae provinciarvm metropoli florentissima, ad hvnc exitvm perdvctvm est divinvm hoc opvs, anno a Christi nativitate M. D. LV. XXVII. Septembris. Regiis impensis. Caspar Craphtvs elvangensis, svevvs, characteres Syros ex norici ferri acie scvlpebat. Michael Cymbermannvs prelo et operis svis excvdebat.

Editio princeps of the Syriac New Testament in the Peshitta version, and the first book printed in the language; edited by Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter; for a full description see Darlow & Moule 8947.

Colophons to sections of the work dated Feb. 14, March 21, April 25, May 18, July 18, July 21, and Aug. 14.

Type cast under the direction of Guillaume Postel.

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; but no copies are known in which these are present.

The woodcuts are emblematic character, with coats of arms and symbols; two represent the crucifixion and the Pietas.

With this is bound Widmanstetter's Syriacae lingvae ... prima elementa, 1555[1556].

Darlow & Moule 1555.