Liber sacrosancti evangelii de Iesv Christo domino & Deo nostro
Subtitle: Reliqua hoc codice comprehensa pagina proxima indicabit. Div. Ferdinandi rom. imperatoris designati iussu & liberalitate, characteribus & lingua syra, Iesv Christo vernacula, diuino ipsius ore cõsecrata, et a Ioh. Euãgelista hebraica dicta, scriptorio prelo diligẽter expressa ...
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: syc
Number of pages: 129
Work titles: Bible Syriac 1555 Widmanstetter
Notes: Syriac title at head of t.-p.

Colophon: In urbe Vienna, amplissimarvm orientalis Avstriae provinciarvm metropoli florentissima, ad hunc exitvm perdvctvm est divinvm hoc opus, anno a Christi nativitate 1755, 27th septembris. Regiis impensis. Caspar Craphtvs elvangensis,svevus, characteres syros ex norici ferri acie svulpebat. Michael Cymbermannvs prelo et operis suis excudebat.

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.

The table of contents on verso of 2d prelim. leaf calls for a dedication to the Archduke Ferdinand preceding the Acts, & one to the Archduke Karl preceding the Epistles of James, Peter & John; but no copies are known in which these are present.