The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403)Gibbons, Herbert Adams
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The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403)
Gibbons, Herbert Adams
Turkey -- History -- 1288-1453
GYCAUD, B. (publisher). _La Généalogie du Grand-Turc, ... avec l’origine
des princes_, &c. Lyon, 1570, fol.
HADJI KHALFA, MUSTAFA IBN ABDALLAH, KIATIB TCHELEBI. 1. _Djihannuma_
(mirror of the world). A Universal geography, but does not include
Europe. Uses 19 Arabic sources, but principally Abulfeda. Printed in
Turkish, Constantinople, 1732, fol. Latin trans. in MS. by Mathias
Norberg, at Lund, Sweden (_see_ Toderini, iii. 135). French trans. in
MS. by M. Armain, in Bibl. Nat., Paris, fonds français, nouv. acq., nos.
888-9, with exhaustive index, and splendid introduction on life and work
of Hadji Khalfa.
2. Geography of Balkan peninsula, trans. by Hammer under title _Rumeli
und Bosna_, Vienna, 1812.
3. _Kitab Kyachfaddyunoun an atamy alkontoub alfounoun_: The Clearing of
doubts concerning the names of books and sciences. A bibliographical
dictionary, in Arabic, containing 13,494 titles, and referring to 25,614
works. Latin trans. from Vienna, Paris, and Berlin MSS. by Gustavus
Flügel. London, 1835-42. 3 vols. 4to. French trans. in MS. in Bibl.
Nat., Paris, fonds arabe, 4462-4, by Petits de la Croix, 3 vols. la.
fol., with minute index. M. de la Croix rightly boasted of his work that
it was ‘traduit, recueilly et redigé avec grand travail, et grande
assiduité et exactitude’. Arabic original in parallel columns.
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the Osmanlis. Publ. at Constantinople, with 7 maps, 1729, fol. A French
translation of this printed edition by La Rocque is in the Leyden
Library, MSS. orientaux, no. 1599. It is called: ‘Histoire des conquêtes
des Ottomans sur les Chrétiens tant dans la mer Noire que dans la mer
Méditerranée avec les noms des places et les circonstances des
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1831, 4to.
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Zenker, following Reiske, regards Carli’s trans. as incorrect and
unfaithful. But Toderini, iii. 145, vigorously defends Carli from this
charge. Hadji Khalfa, in _Dict. Bibl._, no. 3474, fol. 553, calls this
work of his ‘the erection of histories’, and describes how he compiled
it.
HALLE, J. _Hungarica et Turcica ... betreffende Bücher und HSS._, &c.
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HAMMER, JOSEPH VON. 1. _Geschichte des Osmanischen Reichs._ Pest,
1827-34. 10 vols. 8vo. French trans. by Hellert, in collab. with author.
Paris, 1843. 18 vols. 8vo and atlas, la. fol. French abridged trans. by
Dochez, Paris, 1844. 3 vols., la. 8vo. Also Italian trans. by Antonelli,
Venice, 1829. Concise English abridgment by Creasy.
2. Trans. of Hadji Khalfa’s geography of Balkans under title: _Rumeli
und Bosna_.
3. English trans. of Evlia Tchelebi’s voyages.
4. _Geschichte der Goldenen Horde._ Buda-Pest, 1840.
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