Ketaba de'wangeliwan qadisha' demaran wa'lahan yeshu' ... = Liber sacrosancti evangelii de Iesu Christo Domino & Deo nostro : reliqua hoc codice comprehensa pagina proxima indicabit : Div. Ferdinandi Rom. imperatoris designati iussu & liberalitate, characteribus & lingua Syra, Iesu Christo vernacula, divino ipsius ore co[n]secrata, et à Ioh. Eva[n]gelista Hebraica dicta, scriptorio prelo dilige[n]ter expressa ...

Title in red and black; some text also in black and red.
Colophon: In Vrbe Vienna, amplissimarvm orientalis Avstriae provinciarvm metropoli florentissima, ad hvnc exitvm perdvctvm est divinvm hoc opvs, anno a Christi nativitate M. D. LV. XXVII. Septembris. Regiis impensis. Caspar Craphtvs elvangensis, svevvs, characteres Syros ex norici ferri acie scvlpebat. Michael Cymbermannvs prelo et operis svis excvdebat.
1st ed. (and 1st issue?) of the Syriac N.T. in the Peshitta version, and the first book printed in Syriac. This ed. edited by Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter, assisted by a Syrian priest named Moses Meredinaeus (i.e. of Mardin).
The Syriac type was prepared under the direction of Guillaume Postel and cut by Kaspar Kraft, a Swabian artist of Ellwangen.
The table of contents on verso of 2d prelim. leaf calls for a dedication to the Archduke Ferdinand preceding the acts and one to the Archduke Karl preceding the Epistles of James, Peter & John.
13 full page woodcuts of an emblematic character, with coats of arms and symbols, concerning the Emperor Ferdinand I, at whose expense the book was published; two woodcuts represent the crucifixion and the Pietas.
Contents differs from the description of the editio princeps in Darlow and Moule. PML copy contains only: Title in Syriac and Latin, printed in red and black) and preliminary leaves (in Latin, including a dedication dated at end Viennae Austriacae v. Id. Iunii. Anno M.D. LV.). Text divided into 2 parts: Part 1, Gospels of Matthew (colophon, 14 Feb, 1555), Mark (colophon, 21 March, 1555), Luke (colophon, 25 April, 1555), and John (colophon, 18 May, 1555). Part 2, Epistles of St. Paul, (colophon, 18 July, 1555).