[Leaf from L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et établissement de celuy des Turcs].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chalkokondylēs, Laonikos, approximately 1430-approximately 1490, author.

Contributor:

Nicolay, Nicolas de, 1517-1583, illustrator.

Vigenère, Blaise de, 1523-1596, translator.

Naomi and Henry Wahrman Judaica Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Hamon, Moses ben Joseph, approximately 1490-1554--Portraits--Early works to 1800.

Hamon, Moses ben Joseph.

Costume--Turkey--Early works to 1800.

Costume.

Genre:

Engravings.

Penn Provenance:

Cohen, Simon L. (former owner) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

1 leaf ([2] pages) : 1 illustration ; 34 cm (fol.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [16--]

Language Note:

French translation by Blaise de Vigenère of: De rebus Turcicis.

Summary:

Leaf from an unidentified seventeenth-century edition of L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et établissement de celuy des Turcs, written by Laonikos Chalkokondylēs and translated by Blaise de Vigenère, containing engraved illustration titled "Medicin Juif" (recto) and text titled "Giomailer religievx Turc." (verso).

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.

Engraved illustration (plate mark 273 x 174 mm) of the Jewish doctor Moses Hamon, after a sketch by Nicolas de Nicolay first engraved by Leon Davent for Nicolay's Navigations, pérégrinations et voyages faicts en la Turquie, here re-engraved.

Woodcut initial O on verso.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy formerly owned by Dr. Simon L. Cohen, London.

OCLC:

1427723910