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Augerii Gislenii Busbequii D. Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor : quarum priores duae ante aliquot annos in lucem prodierunt sub nomine Itinerum Constantinopolitani & Amasiani : adiectae sunt duae alterae : eiusdem de re militari contra Turcam instituenda consilium : cum indice omnium locupletissimo.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection FC55 B9603 581i 1595
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592.
- Standardized Title:
- Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ambassadors--Early works to 1800.
- Ambassadors.
- Turks--Early works to 1800.
- Turks.
- Holy Roman Empire--History--Ferdinand I, 1556-1564.
- Holy Roman Empire.
- Turkey--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--History--1453-1683.
- History.
- Genre:
- Manuscript waste (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Bibliotheca Cranziana (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Elisabetgymnasium Breslau (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 360 pages, 24 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Epistolae quatuor
- Avgerii Gislenii Bvsbeqvii D. Legationis Tvrcicae epistolae quatuor
- Fingerprint:
- rui- uiis neu- abCh (3) 1595 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Francofurti : Apud heredes Andreae Wecheli, Claud. Marnium & Ioann. Aubrium, MDXCV [1595]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-2A⁸.
- Busbecq's letters describing his diplomatic mission to Turkey were written in 1555, 1556, 1560, and 1562.
- Woodcut printer's device on title page and repeated on final leaf (A. Wechel (F96)); initials.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Porsius, Heinrich. Historia belli Persici, gesti inter Murathem II. Turcarum, et Mehemetem Hodabende, Persarum regem / ab Henrico Porsio ... Eiusdem, Itineris Byzantini libri III. Carminarum lib. II. Epigrammatum II. Poëta. Francofurti : excudebat Iohannes Wechelus, impensis Sigismundi Feyrabendt, MDLXXXIII [1583].
- Culture Class Collection copy half bound in parchment with portion of an ms. leaf of parchment used as binder's waste (probably from an antiphonary, containing text and music for Lauds from a Reimofficium (or rhythmical office) for the feast of St. Stanislaus); ms. title on spine; all edges blue.
- Culture Class Collection copy has the library stamp of Bibliotheca Cranziana in red ink on t.p.; stamp of Elizabeth Gymansium in Breslau (now Wroclaw) ("Liber Gymnasii Elisabeth") in black ink on t.p.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes in pencil on front pastedown; unidentified inscription in brown ink on t.p.
- Cited in:
- Apponyi, I. no. 558
- OCLC:
- 50577641
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