Muhammad ibn Khavand Shah, called Mir Khavand (1432-1498).

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Description

Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y succession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un viage hecho por el mismo autor dende la India oriental hasta Italia por tierra. Antwerp: J. Verdussen, 1610

2 parts, 8vo (165 x 95mm.), [8], 384, [8]; 221, [7]pp., the Relacion de Harmuz ends on p.45 of part 2, with a printer's grotesque ornament on p.[46], the remainder of part 2 being given over to the account of Teixeira's travels, binding: eighteenth-century English calf, gilt spine, red edges

Literature

Palau 328892; Alden A610.1; Cobham-Jeffery p.60; Wilson p.224 (under Teixeira)

Catalogue Note

first edition. As Teixeira makes clear in his preface, this work is based on and largely translated from the Persian chronicle (for a resumé of which see E.G. Browne History of Persian Literature iii, 432-433), and for this reason it is catalogued under this name. Teixeira (1563-1645?), a Portuguese, who, as he tells us, wrote in Castilian so that his account might be "mas comunicable" in that language rather than his native Portuguese in which he had drafted it, was a born adventurer who returned from his eastern travels to Venice and ultimately to Antwerp where he produced and published this volume.