Bidspirit auction | [HISTORY] - MEHMED II (1432

[HISTORY] - MEHMED II (1432 - 1481) - 1500. The False Epistolary Of The Emperor Of The Turks - Mehmed II (محمد ثانى said لفاتحﺍ the «Conqueror»). Epistolae Maumetis Turcor[um] Imperatoris ad diversos pri[n]cipes. [together with:] Diogenes Cynicus. Epistolae Diogenes Cynici Philosophi Acutissimi [together with:] Marcus Brutus. Epistolae M. Bruti: quas graece conscripsit quum ipse & Cassius mortuo caesare cum dolobella pro Syria: Asiaq[ue] prouinciis sibi per senatum decretis: bellum gerunt [together with:] Hippocrates. Hippocrates Choi medicorum principis epistolae. [Venice: Otinus de Luna Papiensis, about 1500]. 4to (195 x 140 mm), modern limp vel-lum with handwritten title at spine, ff. 46 (in Roman numerals). Text in Latin, Roman type R107, 31 lines. Very scarce incunabulum with the first edition of this collection of false letters of Mahomet II, emperor of Turks, to other princes. In addition, other letters of the philosopher Diogenes, the physician Hippocrates and of Marcus Brutus, Julius Caesar’s adoptive son and killer. Diogenes’s Epistles were translated from Greek by Francesco Griffolini; Hippocrates’s letters were translated from Greek by Rinuccio Aretino. At leaf 12r, Laudivio Zacchia declares to be the translator of Mahomet’s Letters, but indeed he probably was the actual author. Condition: Light foxing but a good and still crisp copy. References: Not in BMC. IGI 5972; Goff M66; BMC V 570; BSB-Ink Z-17; GW M25652; HCR 10500; Polain (B) 2564; IBE 3459; CCIR L-10; IBP 3519; Sajó-Soltész 2040; Madsen 2826; Martín Abad L-15; Walsh 2718; Proctor 5615. ISTC im00066000. •⁠> This lot is located in and ships from Italy. An Italian export license is required prior to shipment, which may cause delays. The Auction House will take care of the export license at no cost to the buyer. Import duties and taxes in the destination country are the buyer's responsibility.