Curiosities of the Royal Library at Dresden

from previous page: ...of the same Summula quædam brevis contra hærefes & sectam diabolicæ fraudis Saracenorum A certain short summary against the heresies and sect of the diabolical fraud of the Saracens. Præfatio Roberti Retenensis Angli de Alcorani versione Preface of Robert of Ketton, Englishman, on the version of the Alcoran. Codex authenticus Alcorani versus per Robertum, & Hermannum Dalmata The authentic codex of the Alcoran translated by Robert and Hermann the Dalmatian. Doctrina Machumetis summatim comprehensa, ab eodem Hermanno ex Arabico translata The doctrine of Machumet summarized, translated from Arabic by the same Hermann. De Generatione Mahumet, & nutritura ejus, eodem Hermanno interprete On the generation of Mahumet and his rearing, by the same interpreter Hermann. Chronica mendosa & ridiculoosa Saracenorum de vita Mahumetis, & Successorum ejus, eodem interprete Lying and ridiculous chronicle of the Saracens on the life of Mahumet and his successors, by the same interpreter. Annotationes eruditi cujusdam & recentioris Scriptoris, quæ in Alcorani MSS. marginibus adjectæ fuerant Annotations of a certain learned and more recent writer, which had been added to the margins of the Alcoran MSS. In the first edition there follow also notes on the variants of four manuscripts, which however have been omitted here.

The second volume comprises the refutations of the Alcoran, and these are: Lud. Vives De Mahomete & Alcorano ipsius On Mahomet and his Alcoran, from his books De Veritate fidei Christianæ On the Truth of the Christian Faith. De Mahometo, ejusque legibus, & Saracenorum rebus, ex Volaterrano On Mahomet, and his laws, and the affairs of the Saracens, from Volaterranus. Hieron. Savonarola's Commentatiuncula, Mahometanorum sectam omni ratione carere Small commentary, that the sect of the Mahometans is lacking in all reason. Disputatio Christiani & Saraceni Disputation of a Christian and a Saracen. Nicolaus de Cusa's Cribrationes Alcorani Siftings of the Alcoran. Richard, or Ricoldus, Confutatio Confutation, translated from the Greek version of Demetrius Cydonius by Barthol. Picenus. Christianæ fidei Confessio Saracenis facta Confession of the Christian faith made to the Saracens. Joannes Cantacuzenus's Christiana & Orthodoxa contra Mahometicam fidem assertio Christian and Orthodox assertion against the Mahometan faith, translated into Latin by Rod. Gualtherus. These three writings also appear in Greek in the previous edition, but in this one only in Latin.

In the third volume are: Luther's Epistola ad lectorem Epistle to the reader. Tractatus de moribus &c. Turcarum, auctore Anonymo Septemcaстьrense Treatise on the customs, etc., of the Turks, by an anonymous Transylvanian author. Epistola Pii II. ad Morbisanum Turcarum Principem de erroribus sectæ Mahometanæ Epistle of Pius II. to Morbi-sanus, Prince of the Turks, concerning the errors of the Mahometan sect. Morbisani Responsio Response of Morbi-sanus. Ordinatio Politiæ Turcarum Ordination of the polity of the Turks. Pauli Jovius's Commentarius Rerum Turcicarum Commentary on Turkish affairs. Ejusdem Ordo ac disciplina militiæ Turcicæ The same's order and discipline of the Turkish militia. Vives de conditione vitæ Christianorum sub Turca On the condition of life of Christians under the Turk. Felix Petantius, quibus itineribus Turcæ sint aggrediendi By which routes the Turks are to be attacked. Jac. Sadoleti Homilia de regno Hungariæ a Turcis oppresso & capto Homily on the kingdom of Hungary oppressed and captured by the Turks. To this are added in this edition: Bartholomæus Georgievich's Libelli booklets, and Christophorus Richerus's writings de Origine Turcarum &c. on the origin of the Turks, etc. which do not appear in the older edition.