Laudinii equitis hierosolimitani ad Francinu[m] Beltrandu[m] comite[m] in epistolas magni Turci praefatio [electronic resource] .

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zacchia, Laudivio, approximately 1435-

Series:

Bloomsbury Arcadian Library Online - Europe and the Ottoman World

Standardized Title:

Epistolae magni Turci. Prelim: Laudivius Zacchia: Epistola ad Francinum Beltrandum. Add: Antonius Beccadelli, Panormita: De Hermaphrodito.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481.

Mehmed.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Christianity.

Turkey--History--Mehmed II, 1451-1481.

Turkey.

Turkey--Foreign relations--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate of Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston, Lieut-Col. on front pastedown.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (47 unnumbered pages)

Edition:

First edition, incunable.

Other Title:

Epistolas magni Turci

Epistole M. Turci finiut a Laudinio Equite hyerosolimitao edite que sut LXXXX nuro

Laudinii equitis hierosolimitani

Place of Publication:

[Padua]: [Dominicus Siliprand], [1475]

Notes:

Title from caption.

Falsely attributed to Mahomet II by the author, Laudivius Zacchia.

HCR 10501; BMC VII, 914; Blackmer 954 (later edition); NUC lists only two copies at Yale and Library of Congress. F. Babinger, 'Laudivius Zacchia, der Erdichter der "Epistolae Magni Turci", in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte, Heft 3, 1960.

Local Notes:

Early nineteenth century red paste boards with double gilt line border, rebacked in modern red morocco.

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