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Mahomet II

Epistolae magni Turci.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Zacchia], Laudivius: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Franciscus Beltrandus (Francí Beltrán). Incipit: ‘[E]pistolas a me nuper in lucem editas ad quem potius mitterem . . .’ Explicit: nasum rinocerontis habent Laudivius here called ‘Laudinius'. For the dedicatee see Franz Babinger, Laudivius Zacchia, Erdichter der ‘Epistolae Magni Turci’, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 13 (Munich, 1960), 25.

a1r ‘Argumentum epistolarum'. Incipit: ‘Maumetes Turcorum imperator cui postea ex magnitudine rerum . . .’ Explicit: latinas edidit

a1v [Mahomet Ii pseudo-; Zacchia, Laudivius]: Epistolae magni Turci. Incipit: ‘Audio te ad Leptam Euphrate superato copias ingentes traiecisse quibus . . .’ Falsely attributed to Mahomet II by the author, Laudivius Zacchia, who claims at the end of the ‘Argumentum' that he (Zacchia) is the editor; see Babinger 1-42, at 40.

c8r [Colophon.]

c8r [Beccadelli] Panormita, Antonius [pseudo-; Matthaeus Vindocinensis]: ‘De Hermofrodita . . . carmen decasticon'. Riese 1/2 (Leipzig, 1906), no. 786, apparently with variations. Attributed to Matthieu de Vendôme, but with line 2 here as line 1: see Ludwig Bertalot, ‘Uno zibaldone poetico umanistico del quattrocento a Praga', Studien zum italienischen und deutschen Humanismus, ed. Paul Oskar Kristeller, I, Storia e letteratura, 129 (Rome, 1975), 408, with references.

Imprint

Imprint: [Padua]: D[ominicus] S[iliprandus, c.1475]. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–c⁸.

References

ISTC: im00058000

Hain: HCR 10501;

Goff: Goff M‑58;

BMC: BMC VII 914;

Proctor: Pr 7332;

Others: Babinger 40, no. 3; CIBN L‑56; Hillard 1197; Sheppard 5583.

LCN: 14515147

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