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SCHICKARD, Wilhelm

Tarich h. e. Series Regum Persiae, ab Ardschir-Babekan, usque ad Jazdigerdem à Chaliphis expulsum, per annos ferè 40

Tübingen
Dietrich Werlin
1628

€600 - €900

4to, 231, (1) pp. Text in Latin with quotes in Arabic, Hebrew and other languages. Some woodcut diagrams in text. Age-toned due to paper (as common). Old vellum binding

Ref. VD 17, 14:646680U. ""The best known, and most controversial, of Schickard's works: a treatise, with a lengthy introduction, about various Persian ruling dynasties, especially the Sasanians - editing a total of six out of seventeen genealogical charts found on a 45-foot Turkish manuscript scroll. The genealogies aimed to legitimise the Ottoman dynasty by tracing it back to Adam"" ""Schickard was also the designer of Arabic type, which he engraved himself as copper matrices; they were cast by Theodoricus Werlin, and served to illustrate his 'Tarich'"" (Ref. Smitskamp, PO 132e (note))

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