• 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
  • 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

Curatorial Note:
  • In this remarkable publication the Medici Press offered the Christian Gospels in Arabic translation, with interlinear Latin text, illustrated with 149 fine woodcuts, printed from 68 blocks carved by Leonardo Parasole after designs by Antonio Tempesta. Princeton University’s copy, bound in functional library buckram, long languished in the open stacks, mis-catalogued on account of its front-matter, a new Latin preface published at Florence in 1774, with which numerous remaining specimens of the original sheets of the Rome edition of 1591 were re-issued. Deborah Schlein rediscovered this hidden treasure in Spring 2019.
Collections:
  • Early Arabic printed works
  • Early Arabic Printed Works, Christian Texts
  • Treasures of Rare Book Division
  • Printed Rare Books at PUL
Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Oversize 2267.177 1774q
Extent:
  • 462, [2] p. : ill. ; 35 cm. (Fol.)
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Interlinear translations, Latin
  • Translations into Latin
  • Early works to 1800
Description:
  • 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.
Subject:
  • Bible. Gospels—Interlinear translations, Latin
  • Bible. Gospels. Arabic. Alexandrian Vulgate—Translations into Latin
  • Bible—Illustrations—Early works to 1800
Title sort:
  • 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.
Alternative:
  • Sanctum Dei evangelium Arab. Lat.
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."
Created:
  • 1774-01-01T00:00:00Z/1591-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
  • 1774-1591
Location:
  • EX Oversize 2267.177 1774q
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/3j333629g
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Contributor:
  • Raimondi, Giovanni Battista, 1540-1610
  • Antonius Sionita
  • Malanima, Cesare
Publisher:
  • [Florence? : s.n., 1774.]
Binding note:
  • Ex copy: Bound in 20th C. blue buckram, leaves untrimmed. (Leaf size 35 cm. x 24 cm).
Former owner:
  • Bibliothèque nationale (France)
Printer:
  • Tipografia medicea orientale
Uniform title:
  • Bible. Gospels. Arabic. Alexandrian Vulgate. 1774
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."
Artist:
  • Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630
Engraver:
  • Parasole, Leonardo, 1570?-1630
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