[Turkey]. - Lot 69

[Turkey]. LEUNCLAVIUS (Johann Loewenkau, known as). SPIEGEL (Joannes Gaudier, known as). Annales Sultanorum Othmanidarum, a Turcis sua lingua scripti: Hieronymi Beck a Leopoldtorf , Marci fil. studio & diligentia Constantinopoli aduecti MDLI, Diuo Ferdinando Caes. Opt. Max D.D. iussuque Caes. a Joanne Gaudier dicto Spiegel, interprete Turcico Germanice translati. Joannes Leunclavius nobilis Angriavarius, Latine redditos illustrauit & auxit... Editio altera. Francofurdi (Francfort-Sur-Le Main), Apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, & Ioan Aubrium, 1596. Small folio (21 x 31 cm). 260 pp. with folding genealogical table, (13) index pages. Contemporary soft vellum, spine with handwritten title and date in ink (slight shrinkage of vellum, spine soiled, some oxidation, marginal wetness on the first 50 leaves, one corner rubbed, small paper mq upper corner pp. 39, small lateral losses to vellum). Second edition, the first having appeared in 1588, of this important work on the Ottoman Empire, Annales des sultans ottomans, écrites par les Turcs, taken from the Saadeddin manuscript of Muhammed ibn Hasanhan acquired in Constantinople in 1551 by Hieronymus Beck. The Latin translation is by Johann Loewenkau, known as Leunclavius, based on the German translation by Joannes Gaudier, known as Spiegel. Leunclavius spent three years in Turkey from 1582. An essential source. Provenances: Ex-libris Bibliotheca M. S. Cigiramni on title, library stamp in red ink (id. on pp. 101), with sale stamp in blue ink "double vendu 1861". Antique catalog cut-out pastedown to first flyleaf, an antique note in ink to verso of final blank leaf. Atabey, 715. Blackmer, 1014. Bl. Adams, S51. Göllner, 2203.