1553 AUSTRIA 1ed Cuspinianus Holy Roman Empire OTTOMAN Turks Military Rome FOLIO

1553 AUSTRIA 1^ed Cuspinianus Holy Roman Empire OTTOMAN Turks Military Rome FOLIO

An enormous 16^th-century tome of the works of Cuspinianus!

Johannes Cuspinianus was an early 16^th-century scholar known best known for his extensive study of Roman and Holy Roman emperors. “De Caesaribus et Imperatoribus”, which was first published posthumously the 1540s, proved to be an invaluable resource of humanistic perspective on the lives of ancient emperors. In fact, it is one of the few works that was responsible for reviving interest in classical history in the 16^th-century.

Cuspiniani describes the lives of countless figures including some of the following:

• Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
• Septimus Severus
• Constantine – heirs including Constans I
• Adolf, King of the Romans
• Albert I of Habsburg

This enormous 16^th-century tome of the works of Cuspiniani includes not only “Imperatorius” but also his lesser-known works including “Turcorum Religio” – a work describing the military, religious, and daily practices of the Turks, with special attention given to the influence on Christianity on the Ottoman Empire.

While much of this tome is from the 1561 edition, one portion is from the 1553 first edition – the work “Austria”- a description of the political climate in Austria at the turn of the 16^th-century.

Item number: #27654

Price: $1500

CUSPINIANI, Johannes

Ioannis Cuspiniani, uiri clariss. poetae & medici … De Caesaribus atque imperatoribus romanis

Basileae: Per I. Oporinum & N. Brylingerum, [1561].

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • Imperatoribus – 28, 635, [1]
    • “Austria” – [8], 591-725, [45]
      • From the 1553 edition
    • Commentaries – 578, [1]
      • Includes folding chart
    • Annotations – [2], 240 columns, [38]
  • Dating: comes from end of the dedicatory epistle
  • References: USTC 667755
  • Provenance: Handwritten
    • Wenger, 1673
    • [Johannis Birchard]
    • J. M. Peck
      • John Mason Peck (1789–1858), was an American Baptist missionary to the western frontier of the United States, especially in Missouri and Illinois. A prominent anti-slavery advocate of his day, Peck also founded many educational institutions and wrote prolifically.
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  • Language: Latin
  • Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
  • Size: ~13.25in X 8.75in X 4.5in (34cm x 22cm x 11.5cm)
  • Exceedingly RARE, valuable, and desirable

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