Shelfmark
Fi.4.03
Author
Title
Turcograeciae libri octo à Martino Crusio, in Academia Tybingesi Græco & Latino professore, vtraque lingua edita. Quibus Graecorum status sub Imperio Turcico, in politia & ecclesia, oeconomia & scholis, iam inde ab amissa Constantinopoli, ad hæc usq[ue] tempora, luculenter describitur. Cum indice copiosissimo.
Varying form of title
Tvrcograeciae libri octo
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae, : Per Leonardum Ostenium, Sebastiani Henricpetri impensa., Anno à Christo nato M.D.LXXXIIII. [1584]
Physical description
[44], 557 [ie. 559], [1] p. : ill., coat of arms, ports. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Language
In Greek and Latin.
Note
Date from colophon on p. [539]. Colophon reads: "Basileae, ex officina Leonhardi Ostenij, anno à Christo nato M.D.LXXXIIII".
Note
"Turcograeciae liber secundus [-octauus]", "Theodosii Zygomalae De Constantinopoleos obsidionibus" and "Ad Turcograeciam Martini Crusii, aliquot epistolarum Graecarum appendix" all have divisional half-title pages; pagination and register continuous throughout.
Note
At foot of title: "Cum gratia & priuilegio Caes. Maiest."
Note
Woodcut device of Nicolaus Brylinger on title page and repeated on leaves Y4v and Bb5v.
Note
Woodcut medallion portrait of Crusius and laudatory verse enclosed in a decorative rule-border on title page verso.
Note
Errors in paging: p. 35, 83, 119, 173, 177, 264, 559 misprinted 36, 79, 110, 174, 179, 364, 557, respectively; blanks: p. [214], [278], [346], [348], [408].
Note
Signatures: *⁶ [dagger]⁴ [alpha]-[beta]⁶ a-r⁶ (h4 signed g4) s² s4-5 t-u⁶ x-y⁶ z⁸ A-I⁶ K⁸ L-U⁶ X⁶ Y⁴ Aa⁶ Bb² Bb4-5.
Note
Gatherings s and Bb have sigs 1, 2, 4 and 5; catchwords and pagination match between 2 and 4, and 5 and 1 of next gathering.
Note
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Note
With printed marginal notes.
Note
Errata: prelim. p. [40]-[42].
Citation/references note
Adams, C3018
Provenance
In library in 17th century (note in ECL card catalogue); 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title page, partly obscuring printer's device; 19th-century engraved bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Ms. ?price on rear flyleaf: 0.22.0.
Binding
17th-century white vellum laced case binding, laced at head and tail; yapp edges; traces of ties; chain holes.
Copy-specific note
Previously Ed.3.01.
Subject
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Subject
Greece History 1453-1821.
Added entry--name
Brylinger, Nikolas, fl. 1537 - 1565 printer.
Added entry--name
Henricpetri, Sebastian, 1547 - 1627 publisher.
Added entry--name
Ostein, Leonhard, active 1571 - 1593 printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B37924