Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Translations into Latin—17th century [Browse]
• Islam [Browse]
• Islamic Empire [Browse]

Related name

• Lucaris, Cyril, 1572-1638 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—17th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

[16--].

Summary note

A 17th-century manuscript copy of the Latin translation (ca. 1630) of the Koran by Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople, distinctive in that it has been divided into 160 Suras, rather than the traditional 114. There are other manuscripts of the same Latin translation in the Oxford, Cambridge, Kassel, and Zurich university libraries.

Notes

Imprint: Scriptús Lugduni Batauorum, Anno Hegiræ l[c]cvi.(?)

Provenance

Originally part of the Enno Littmann series of Islamic manuscripts in the Robert Garrett Collection, which was a 1942 gift by Robert Garrrett (Class of 1897).

Source acquisition

Acc. no. AM 1995-55.

Publications about

See Oscar de la Cruz Palma, La traduccion latina del Coran atribuida al patriarca de Constantinople . . . (Madrid, 2006).

Place name(s)

Netherlands Leiden.

Other title(s)

Alcoran

OCLC

49365904

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