Author
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592
Uniform title
Epistolae quatuor
Title
Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum / ab Augerio Gislenio Busbequio ad Solimanum Turcarum imperatorem C.M. oratore confecta. Eiusdem Busbequii De re militari contra Turcam instituenda consilium..
Varying form of title
Itinera Constantinopolitanvm et Amasianvm
Edition
Altera editio..
Imprint
Antuerpiæ, : Ex officina Christophori Plantini., M. D. LXXXII. [1582]
Physical description
127, [1] p. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Note
Printer's device with motto "Labore et constantia" on title page.
Note
Signatures: A-H⁸.
Note
Initials.
Note
"Augerii Busbequii Exclamatio: sive De re militari contra Turcam instituenda consilium" (caption title): pages 75-112. "Eiusdem Busbequii secunda in Trhaciam profectio" (half-title page): pages [113]-127.
Citation/references note
Adams, B3330
Citation/references note
CLC, G566
Provenance
"Balthasar Pogwisch Cimber" inscribed on upper endleaf; "Ex bibliotheca nobiliss. Balthzari Pogwische 85" inscribed on title page (crossed out, but somewhat legible). Possibly the same as Balthasar Pogwisch (1543-1587), who was canon of Lübeck Cathedral 1586-1587. See Germania Sacra Die Kirche des Alten Reiches und Ihre Institutionen: https://rep.adw-goe.de/bitstream/handle/11858/2420/PS2_Luebeck.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y (accessed 02/08/2023).
Provenance
"Paulus Adam" inscribed at head of title page.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
Germanic?; 16th-century pigskin; boards decorated with blind fillets and rolls forming concentric rectangular frames, within which are corner stamps and a centrepiece stamp; sewn on four tawed leather supports; spine with four raised bands, and blind fillets at head and tail; text block edges stained red; titles of items written in ink on fore-edge; later spine label with title: "Busbequii Itinera"; parchment manscript waste used as spine lining.
Copy-specific note
Bound with five further works printed by Plantin, about botany and materia medica. There is a manuscript list of the volume's contents on the upper free endleaf.
Copy-specific note
Manuscript notes on endleaves, some obscured by bookplate.
Copy-specific note
Infrequent manuscript marginal annotations.
Subject
Turkey (Place) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
Turkey (Place) History Sources Süleyman I, 1520-1566 Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589 printer.
Added entry--name
Pogwisch, Balthasar, active 16th-century former owner.
Added entry--name
Plantijnsche Drukkerij printer.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
Augerii Busbequii Exclamatio: sive De re militari contra Turcam instituenda consilium.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
Exclamatio: sive De re militari contra Turcam instituenda consilium.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
De re militari contra Turcam instituenda consilium.
Added entry--uncontrolled related/analytical title
Secunda in Thraciam profectio.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
B14626
UKSbSC
20230807145816.7