Bod-Inc: M-021
Mahomet II
Epistolae magni Turci.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Title-page.]
[a2r] [Zacchia], Laudivius: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Franciscus Beltrandus. Incipit: ‘[E]pistolas a me nuper in lucem editas ad quem potius mitterem . . .’ Explicit: nasum rinocerontis habent See M‑018. Laudivius here called ‘Laudinius'.
[a2r] ‘Argumentum epistolarum'. Incipit: ‘Maumetes Turcorum imperator cui postea ex magnitudine rerum . . .’ Explicit: latinas edidit
[a2v] [Mahomet Ii pseudo-; Zacchia, Laudivius]: Epistolae magni Turci. Incipit: ‘Audio te ad Leptam Euphrate superato copias ingentes traiecisse quibus . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Würzburg: Georg Reyser, c.1490?]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard.
Collation
Collation: [a b8].
Remarks: Collation as Sheppard, not as BMC ([a–d4]).
References
ISTC: im00065000
Hain: H *10498;
Goff: Goff M‑65;
BMC: BMC II 572;
Proctor: Pr 2673;
Others: Babinger 42, no. 21; Sheppard 1939.
LCN: 14514214
Copies
Copy number: M-021(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) white paper boards.
Size: 209 × 155 × 5 mm.
Size of leaf: 205 × 146 mm.
Capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Am Ende (nineteenth century); inscription on the inside of the upper cover: ‘Ex bibliotheca Am-Endeana'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dpl' in pencil on the verso of the front endleaf. Asher & Co., catalogue (1854), no. 3048. Purchased from Asher, 17 Nov. 1854 for 15 Francs (= £2. 15. 0): see Library Bills (1851-5), 325, and Books Purchased (1853), 65.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.41.
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