Bishārat Yasūʻ al-Masīḥ ka-mā kataba Mār Mattī wāḥid min ithnay ʻashar min talāmīdhih = Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius.
بشارة يسوع المسيح كما كتب مار متي واحد من اثني عشر من تلاميذه.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raimondi, Giovanni Battista, 1540-1610.

Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630, artist.

Parasole, Leonardo, approximately 1570-approximately 1630, engraver.

Tipografia medicea orientale, printer.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Gospels. Arabic & Latin. 1591.

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Gospels.

Bible. Gospels--Arabic--1591.

Bible. Gospels--Polyglot--1591.

Penn Provenance:

Paolino, A. (autograph, 1813)

Maisonnueve & Cie. (stamp)

Physical Description:

9-462 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius

Evangelium sanctum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne.

Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min athni ʻashar min talāmīdh.

Place of Publication:

Romae : In Typographia Medicea, M.D.XCI. [1591]

Language Note:

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

Notes:

Edited by Giovanni Battista Raimondi.

Title from caption. Without title page and prefatory matter intended to have occupied p. 1-8. The printing of the work was interrupted before they were printed.

Imprint details from colophon, which reads: "Romae In Typographia Medicea. M.D.XCI.

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."

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy has 3 cards inserted, in envelope, 2 from Penn and one the card of Mr. Leopold Valentini. Worm damage to front and back covers. Stamp of Maisonnueve & Cie. Librairiie Oriental et Europeenne.

Cited in:

Adams B1806

Darlow and Moule 1637