A rare Czech translation of a Turkish chronicle 1594

Joannes Leunclavius

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• Sur l'oeuvre d'art
  Kronyka Nowa O Narodu Tureckem, na dwa Djili rozdelena.
  Prague, Daniel Adam, 1594. 2 volumes bound as 1. Small 4to (19.5 x 15.5 cm). With the title-page of volume 1 printed in red and black, and the colophon with large woodcut printer's device; the 2nd volume with woodcut ornament on the title-page, and the colophon with a woodcut vignette. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with 2 leather straps with brass clasps (later).
  
  Extremely rare first Czech edition of a famous Turkish chronicle, translated after the German by Jan Kocin. The text was based on a 16th-century Turkish manuscript by Muhammed ibn Hasanjan, called Saadeddin, which described the Turkish history up to the year 1550. This manuscript was brought from Istanbul by the Austrian scholar Hieronymus Beck in 1551, and subsequently translated into German by Joannes Gautier, or Spiegel, the interpreter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. Gautier augmented the manuscript with a continuation of the history to the year 1588, and this version was rendered into Latin by Joannes Leunclavius, or Hans Lewenklau.
  Library stamps on title-pages; occasionally browning throughout; with a few old owner's entries; new endpapers; first blank strengthened; a few old owner's entries. Good copy of an extremely rare Prague imprint.
  Göllner, Turcica 1956; USTC 568735; WorldCat (4 copies, including 1 incomplete).
• Sur l'artiste
  Johannes Leunclavius ​​est né en 1541 en Allemagne. Il était connu à la fois comme historien et orientaliste. Son implication dans l'histoire turque, republiant et annotant des sources ottomanes, révèle son expertise sur le terrain. Il a également édité Xenophon, Cassius Dio et d'autres auteurs classiques. Son œuvre la plus connue s'appelle «Hist Turcia Musulmanica». Leunclavius ​​était connu pour être un ami du noble Heinrich von Lichtenstein et il l'a accompagné en mission diplomatique à Istanbul de 1584 à 1585. Il était également un ami de Friedrich Sylburg, qui a publié une traduction de Zosime. Leunclavius ​​est décédé en 1594.