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TURKEY -- WOLF, Hieronymus (ed.). Historia Rerum in Oriente Gestarum ab exordio mundi et orbe condito ad nostra haec usque tempora. Frankfurt: Sigismund Feyrabend, 1587. 2° (347 x 229mm). Woodcut device on the title and colophon, arms of Nidhard Thungen on the dedication leaf (occasional minor spotting, occasional faint marginal dampstain.) Near contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (light soiling). Provenance: William H. Morley (1815-1860, title-stamps, inscriptions) -- Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps, shelf label on the spine).
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this important compilation of early sources on Turkey and the Islamic world, including Chalcocondylas, Zonaras, Laocitas, Gregoras and Nicetas. From the library of the orientalist and lawyer William Hook Morley. In 1838, the same year this book came into his library, Morley distinguished himself by discovering Jami Al Tawarikh, a lost manuscript of Rashidudin, and entered the Middle Temple. Later in life he became librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society. Katip Celebi translated part of this History for his own Rawnaq al Sultana. Atabey 582; Blackmer 819.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this important compilation of early sources on Turkey and the Islamic world, including Chalcocondylas, Zonaras, Laocitas, Gregoras and Nicetas. From the library of the orientalist and lawyer William Hook Morley. In 1838, the same year this book came into his library, Morley distinguished himself by discovering Jami Al Tawarikh, a lost manuscript of Rashidudin, and entered the Middle Temple. Later in life he became librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society. Katip Celebi translated part of this History for his own Rawnaq al Sultana. Atabey 582; Blackmer 819.