\uff3bTURKISH SULTANS.] Cronica breve de fatti illustri de gli Imperatori de Turchi,
\ncon le loro effigie dal naturale, nella quale si contiene sotto brevit\u00e0 in che tempo
\ncominciassero a imperare e l’imprese pi\u00f9 notabile fatte da loro, e quanto tempo
\nregnassero.
\nV
\nenice,Bernardo Giunta, 1598.
\nSmall folio, ff. [3, last blank], woodcut printer’s device on title, with 15 etched plates depicting Ottoman Sultans within elaborate Mannerist frames; some light browning or foxing (mostly marginal), first two plates fractionally trimmed at fore-edge,small hole (paper flaw) in fore-edge of eleventh plate (not affecting image), old inked-out inscriptions on title and at foot of final plate; contemporary vellum with remains of ties; spine soiled, recased.<\/p>\n
First edition of this extremely rare anonymous series of portraits of the Turkish
\nsultans from Osman Gazi (1299-1324) to Mehmed III (1595-1603). It derives (for
\nthe portraits up to and including Selim I) from the Rouill\u00e9-Sansovino series of
\nOttoman portraits, which is distinct from the other major sixteenth-century collection,
\nnamely the Giovio series first published in Basel in 1575-7. See J\u00fcrg Meyer zur
\nCapellen,’Sultan portraits in European printed books of the 16. century. The
\n\u201cCronica breve\u201d of 1598′ in 9. Milletlerarasi T\u00fcrk Sanatlari Kongresi \/ 9th
\nInternational Congress of Turkish Art I,Ankara,1995,pp.451-464.
\nThe Turkish sultans depicted are: Osman Gazi;Orhan; Murad I; Bayezid I; Isa \u00c7elebi; Musa \u00c7elebi; Mehmed I;Murad II; Mehmed II; Bayezid II; Selim I; Suleyman I; Selim II; Murad III and Mehmed III. The text gives a brief resum\u00e9 of the events of each sultan’s reign.
\nEDIT 16 CNCE 13821 (calling for 13 plates only); G\u00f6llner 2356. OCLC records just three locations: Biblioth\u00e8que nationale, British Library and Washington, National
\nGallery of Art (imperfect,lacking four plates).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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