al-Injīl al-Muqaddas li-Rabbinā Yasūʻ al-Masīḥ al-maktūb min arbaʻ al-Injīlīyīn al-Muqaddasīn aʻnī Mattá wa-Murqus wa-Lūqā wa-Yūḥannā = Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Jesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis id est Mathaeo, Marco, Luca, et Johanne.

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Arabic
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[Florence? : s.n., 1774.]
Description
462, [2] p. : ill. ; 35 cm. (Fol.)

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  • The Gospels in Arabic with interlinear Latin translation. This issue consists of the sheets of the 1591 edition, Darlow & Moule 1637, re-issued with a new half-title, title-page and Latin preface. Title of the 1591 edition: Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min athni ʻashar min talāmīdh = Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius.
  • The Arabic Gospels are in the 'Alexandrian Vulgate' version, edited by G.B. Raimondi; the interlinear Latin translation is ascribed to Antonius (?) Sionita." (See Darlow & Moule 1636, 1637.).
  • On the title-page, the Latin title is preceded by a title in Arabic.
  • Half-title: Sanctum Dei evangelium Arab. Lat.
  • The last leaf contains a Latin note (from the 1591 issue), "Typographus lectori", and colophon: Romae : In Typographia Medicea, M. D. XCI.
  • The new preface is dated "Florentiae ex Typographeo linguarum exhoticarum V. Kalend. Julii 1774" and signed "Caesar Malanimeus."
  • Illustrated with 149 woodcuts, printed from 68 blocks, by Leonardo Parasole after Antonio Tempesta.
Binding note
Ex copy: Bound in 20th C. blue buckram, leaves untrimmed. (Leaf size 35 cm. x 24 cm).
Provenance
Ex copy: Stamped on colophon with two red stamps: "Bibliothèque impériale Impr." [Cachet dating from 1852-1853] and "Double échangé No. [in ink] 907."
Source acquisition
Ex copy: Acquired by Princeton in 1886 in an exchange with the Bibliothèque nationale (France). John S. Pierson, Class of 1840, effected the exchange, recorded by the BN as "Double échangé No. 907."
Other title(s)
  • Sanctum Dei evangelium Arab. Lat.
  • Bible. Gospels. Latin. 1591.
  • Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min athni ʻashar min talāmīdh = Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius.
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1402189658
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