Cehil sutun, seu, Explicatio utriusque celeberrimi, ac pretiosissimi theatri quadraginta columnarum in Perside Orientis
Subtitle: cum adjecta fusiori narratione de religione, moribusq[ue] Persarum, & eorundem vivendi modo, populis vicinis, alijsq[ue] de hac Orientali Natione famosissima scitû dignis ...
By: ab authore ... Petro Bedik, nobili Pers-Armeno, olim venerabilis Collegij Urbani VIII. de propaganda fide in literaturis artium, & SS. theol. alumno, exinde verò per plures annos gravissimorum pro Christianitate orientis negotiorum fideli zelatore dicata, & consecrata
Contributors: Storn, Rudolf, illustrator; Sadeler, Tobias, approximately 1641-1679, engraver; Rossetti, Domenico, 1650-1736, engraver; Voigt, Leopold, 1650-1706, printer
Publisher: Typis Leopoldi Voigt, Universitatis typogr.
Published: 1678
Language: lat; ita; per
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Social life and customs; Early works to 1800; Chihil Sutūn (Iṣfahān, Iran); Description and travel; Travel; History
Other titles: Cehil svtvn; Explicatio utriusque celeberrimi, ac pretiosissimi theatri quadraginta columnarum in Perside Orientis
Notes: At head of title in Persian: Chihīl Sūtun.

Imprint date from chronogram on title page: DVM feLIX aVstrIae prInCeps natVs. The prince referred in this, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, was born on July 26, 1678.

Signatures: a-b⁴ A-3O⁴.

Errors in paging: pages 372-373 omitted, pages 457-458 repeated in numbering, page 406 misnumbered 306.

Folded engraved plate by T. Sadeler after R. Storn; frontispiece with allegorical emblem by Domenico Rossetti; portrait vignette of Leopold I surrounded by the imperial eagle on title page.

Woodcut illustration on page 288.

One line on page [12] (1st count) printed in red.

Errata: pages [5]-[6] (3rd c ount).

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials.

Title page followed by eight page dedication to Leopold I (1640-1705), Holy Roman Emperor, a two page peroration in Persian with a translation into Latin and a one page address to the reader.

Cicognara, 3951

Text in Latin, with some passages in Persian.

Binding: vellum; two paper shelf labels on spine; inscribed in ink on title page and in a different hand on front pastedown.