Title: Laudinii equitis hierosolimitani ad Francin[um] Beltrandu[m] comitem in epistolas magni Turci praefatio
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">4to. ff. [1]
(blank), [22], [1] (blank). Signatures: [a⁸ b⁶ c⁸]. In a highly distinctive
type (see British Museum, Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in
the British Museum. London, 1963, vol. vi, p. 882); modern limp boards. Title
from caption in capitals at incipit on leaf I.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">The
imaginary correspondence between Mahomet II (1432-1481) and his governors, and
to and from European leaders, is fabricated by the itinerant humanist Laudivio
Zacchia, who claims here to be its translator from various Levantine languages.
“Mehmed’s” letters enjoyed wide readership during the final quarter of the
fifteenth century: there were at least eighteen incunabular editions, beginning
at Naples, 1473. Apparently reprinted from the edition [Padua]: D.S., [ca.
1475], i.e. Goff, F. R. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census.
Millwood (N.Y.), 1973, M-58, with the addition of a table: see British Museum,
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum, vol.
vi, p. 885. Dated [1476] in L. A. Sheppard, Catalogue of XVth century books in
the Bodleian Library, 5494, and [1477] in BNF Catalogue des incunables, L-58.
Dedicated to Franci Beltrán of Catalonia.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">See also
Goff, M-59; J. Coleman, “Forging Relations between East and West. The Invented
Letters of Sultan Mehmet II,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary
forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 118-134; W.
Stephens & E. Havens, “Introduction: Forgery’s Valhalla”, in id. (eds.),
Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 7-8;
E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,”
in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe,
1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 50.</span></p><p></p>

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