The historie of the great Emperour Tamerlan.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Amsterdam : New York :
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Da Capo Press,
1968.
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| Series: | English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile ;
no. 38. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of Histoire du grand empereur Tamerlanes. S.T.C. number 7263. Original title page reads: The historie of the great Emperovr Tamerlan. VVherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diuerse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished ... Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by Messire Iean du Bec, Abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. By H. M. London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1597. Purports to be based on a work by Alhacen, an Arabian companion of Timur. |
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| Physical Description: | 265 pages ; 21 cm. |