Digitized Latin Qur'an

[Pacifica]

Coran 12-21. Traductions du Coran en Europe, XIIe-XXIe siècles

 

[Godmy]

Macte virtūte! Ūsuī erit nova lēctūrō & cognītūrō!

 

[cinefactus]

I love the start of it. Nothing like starting with an open mind

 

[Pacifica]

Yeah, well, what did you expect of a Christian translator of the time.

 

[Notascooby]

This masterpiece also exists https://archive.org/details/TranslationOfTheMeaningsOfTheNobleQuranInTheLatinpdf/mode/2up

 

[Pacifica]

Looks like an Intertran translation. Or maybe something even weirder. Not sure.

 

[cinefactus]

A true gem

 

[Katarina]

Well it's interesting there is so many quite different translations for one passage ... That can't be very precise translation ...

 

[Pacifica]

Well it's interesting there is so many quite different translations for one passage ... That can't be very precise translation ...

Yes, I'm guessing some of the translators weren't all that proficient in Arabic.