- 3199
Leunclavius, Joannes (1533-1593).
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Annales Sultanorum Othmanidarum, a Turcis sua lingua scripti. Frankfurt: the heirs of Andreas Wechel, Claude de Marne and Jean Aubry, 1588
4to (212 x 160mm.), [8], 519, [1]pp., illustration: woodcut printer's device to title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, folding genealogical table before AA1, binding: vellum stained yellow, slight staining to text, particularly to lower right-hand corners, some small tears not affecting text, spine torn with loss
Provenance
Thomas Smith (1638-1710), fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, ownership inscription and copious marginal notes in Latin, Greek and Hebrew: "sequentes annotationes in margine... exscripsi ex codice viri illustris Josephi Scaligeri sua manu". The copy that Smith consulted is now BL Or.70.b.12.
Literature
Göllner 2203; Blackmer 1014 (1596 edition); Atabey 715 (1596 edition)
Catalogue Note
This work is a Latin translation and continuation until 1588 of a history by Muhammed ibn Hasanjan, a manuscript of which Hieronymus Beck had brought back from Constantinople in 1551. Joannes Leunclavius (or Hans Löwenklaw) travelled in Turkey from 1582.