Barlezio, De vita... Scanderbegus, Strassburg, 1537, contemporary calf gilt

Marino Barlezio

De vita moribus ac rebus praecipue adversus Turcas, gestis, Georgii Castrioti, clarissimi Epirotarum principis... qui Scanderbegus, hoc est, Alexander Magnus, cognominatus fuit, libri tredecim. Strassburg: Kraft Müller, October 1537

folio (303 x 194mm.), woodcut device on title-page and on final verso, woodcut initials, small woodcut portrait of Scanderbeg at start of text, contemporary calf with small gilt centrepiece and corner fleurons, occasional light foxing, a few repaired marginal wormholes at beginning and end, binding slightly scraped and rebacked with mottled calf

Second edition of Barlezio's hagiographical biography of Scanderbeg, which was first published in Rome in c. 1508-1510. This is the first German edition, with a dedication by Caspar Hedio to Albrecht of Baden-Durlach, who had taken part in the Austrian-Turkish war of 1526-1533.

LITERATURE

VD16 B 389

PROVENANCE

Library of the Duque de Medinaceli & Santisteban, armorial bookplate