Most rare and straunge discourses of Amurathe, the Turkish emperor that nowe is ...
Contributors: Charlewood, John, -1592, printer; Hacket, Thomas, active 1560-1590, bookseller; Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631, former owner; Billerbeg, Franciscus de; Gennadius II, Patriarch of Constantinople, approximately 1405-approximately 1472
Publisher: By J. Charlewood] for Thomas Hackett, and are to bee sold at his shoppe ...
Published: 1584
Place of publication: Jmprinted at London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church
Other titles: Most rare and strange discourses of Amurathe
Notes: Signatures: *2, A-G4 (G4 blank? not present)

Woodcut medallion of a Roman (?) emperor on t.p.

Dedication to "Sir Edwarde Osborne knight" signed by the translator (?) "Thomas Hacket"; Osborne was knighted 2 Feb. 1584.

Title modernized: Most rare and strange discourses.

STC (2nd ed.) 3060
Table of contents: title: Frauncis Billerbege from Constantinople, written to David Chytraens[i.e. Chytraeus] of Germanie; title: The true description of the magnificall tryumphes and pastimes, represented at Constantinople, at the solemnizing of the circumcision of the Soldan Mauhmet, the sonne of Amurath / T.H[acket?]; title: The confession of Gennadius, the Patriarche of Constantinople, exhibited to Mahumet, the II. emperor of that name.; title: The first and third discourses are translated from Epistola Constantinopoli recens scripta / [Franciscus de Billerbeg]; the original of the second discourse has not been identified.