Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum uitae, doctrina, ac ipse Alcoran
Subtitle: quo uelut authentico legum diuinarum codice Agareni & Turcae, alij[que] Christo aduersantes populi reguntur
By: quae ante annos CCCC ... D. Petrus Abbas Cluniancensis ... ex Arabica lingua in Latinam transferri curauit ; his adiunctae sunt confutationes multoru[m] ... authorum ... unà cum doctiss. uiri Philippi Melanchthonis praemonitione ... adiuncti sunt etiam de Turcarum ... origine ac rebus gestis à DCCCC annis ad nostra us[que] tempora ... ; haec omnia in unum uolumen redacta sunt, opera & studio Theodori Bibliandri ....
Contributors: Bibliander, Theodorus, ca. 1504-1564.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Peter, the Venerable, ca. 1092-1156.; Robert, of Chester, fl. 1143.; Hermann, of Carinthia.; John VI Cantacuzenus, Emperor of the East, 1292-1383.
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1578
Place of publication: [Zurich?
Language: lat
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Koran.; Islam -- Controversial literature; Islamic Empire -- History.
Genres: Controversial literature
Work titles: Koran. Latin.
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: Confutationes legis Mahumeticae, quam uocant Alcoranum ...

Vol. 3 has title: Historiae de Saracenorum siue Turcarum origine, moribus, nequitia, religione, rebus gestis ...

Place of publication from BM.

The 2nd ed., rev. and enl. of the translation of the Koran by Robertus Retenensis and Hermannus Dalmata under the direction of Peter the Venerable.

Vol. 2 contains treatises by Juan Vives, Volaterranus, Savonarola, Nicolaus Cusanus, Luther, and others.

Vol. 3, first printed in 1530 under title, Libellus de ritu et moribus Turcarum, has pref. by Luther and includes Homilia by Sadoleto.

BM 127.542

NUC pre-1956 NK 0257836