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54 - REYNECKE (Reinhard). Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, id est, De …
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REYNECKE (Reinhard). Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, id est, De bello sacro historia. - Pars secunda, continens duorum priorum familiæ Luceburg. imperatorum historiam. Helmstedt, Jakob Lucius, 1584-1585. 2 volumes small in-4, cold-stamped saddle-skin on wooden boards, double framed with friezes of foliage and medallions set with fillets, armorial plate in the central rectangle, different on each board, spine with four nerves, red edges, metal clasps (Germanic binding of the period). First edition of this important collection of medieval texts on the Levant and the Far East, published and annotated by the humanist Reinhard Reyneke (1541-1595) from a manuscript entrusted to him by Christian Distelmeyer. The work consists of two parts, the second of which is subdivided into two series of opuscules, each with its own title, appendix and index. It contains in particular: ▪ Albert of Aix. De bello sacro historia. Princeps edition of this important chronicle of the first crusade and the kingdom of Jerusalem up to 1119 composed in the twelfth century by Albert of Aix, chancellor and guardian of the church of Aachen. ▪ Héthoum the Historian. Historia orientalis. Latin translation by Niccolò Falconi of the Fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient, dictated to him in French by the author, Héthoum de Korikos (1235?-1314?), an Armenian prince who became a Premonstratensian monk in Cyprus and then Poitiers. ▪ Marco Polo. Itinerarium, seu de rebus orientalibus. Latin translation of the Book of Wonders, a famous travel account constituting the first European description of the whole of the Orient, originally written in French in 1298. ▪ Vincent de Beauvais. Fragmentum de rebus orientalibus. Extract from the Speculum historiale, the third part of the vast medieval encyclopaedia by Vincent de Beauvais (1184?-1264), providing an accurate picture of medieval knowledge of the Orient. Copy complete with all the required parts and the folded out-of-text genealogical table. Very fine contemporary German bindings bearing the arms of the Holy Roman Empire and of Elector August I of Saxony. From the libraries of Baron Balthasar Friedrich von Logau (1645-1702), of Breslau, son of the Baroque poet Friedrich von Logau (1605-1655), with armorial stamp on the title (his library was acquired en bloc by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar in 1704); then from Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch (1641-1708), universal scholar from Wittenberg, who was director of the Weimar library, and from his brother Heinrich Leonhard Schurzfleisch (1664-1722), with a handwritten mark on the upper flyleaf: Cat. Bibl. Sch. No. 628 and 629. Stains and scratches on covers not serious; inside foxed, as always; marginal restorations to first four leaves with some lettering redone.
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