Saracenica, siue, Moamethica ... / Graece et Latine nunc primum edita, cum annotationibus & duplici rerum ac verborum indice, opera Friderici Sylburgii ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sylburg, Friedrich, 1536-1596.

Beurer, Johann Jacob.

Commelinus, Hieronymus, 1550?-1597, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Islam--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--Early works to 1800.

Christianity and other religions.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (bookplate) (Lea Library copy)

Mitford, John, 1781-1859 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 152 pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Saracenica

Moamethica

Fingerprint:

i-i- amue **-] **** (3) 1595 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Heidelbergae] : Ex typographeio H. Commelini, Anno 1595.

Language Note:

Greek and Latin on opposite pages.

Contents:

(from t.p.) Ismaeliticae seu Moamethicae sectae praecipuorum dogmatum elenchus, ex Euthymii Zigabeni Panoplia dogmatica / [Ioanne Iacobo Beurero interprete]

De Saracenorum principe & pseudopropheta Moamethe historia, incerti auctoris

Saracenorum ad Christianam ecclesiam sese aggregantium catechesis, & Saracenismi anathematizatio

Ex Theophanis & Anastasii Ecclesiastica historia de Moamethicae sectae primordiis narratio.

Notes:

Signatures: ):(⁴ A-I⁸ K⁴.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device).

Initials, head- and tail-pieces.

"Rerum Saracenicarum et Turcicarum synopsis ... a Ioanne Iacobo Beurero concinnata": p. 106-110; "In Saracenica seu Moamethica notae Friderici Sylburgii": p. 111-152.

Errata on leaf K4v.

Dedicated by Commelin and Sylburg to Pierre and François Pithou.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1966.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("J. Mitford. 1813.") on leaf preceding title leaf, possibly that of English clergyman and collector John Mitford (1781-1859).

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has a few early ms. underlines and marginal marks in text.

Cited in:

VD 16 S 10353

OCLC:

17199693