34 - PHILIPP LONICER [MENAXINO, GIOVANANTONIO]: CHRONICORUM TURCICORUM IN QUIBIS TURCORUM ORIGO, PRINCIPES, IMPERATORES, BELLA, PRAELIA, CAEDES, VICTORIAE, REIQUE MILITARIS RATIO, & CAETERA HUC PERTINENTIA, CONTINUO ORDINE, & PERSPICUA BREUITATE EXPONUNTUR; ET MAHOMATICAE RELIGIONIS INSTITUTA; IUDICIORUM QUE PROCESSIUS, & AULAE CONSTITUTIO; PROCERUM ITEM AC POPULI MORES, VITA QUE DEGENDAE RATIO PERCENSETUR. FRANKFURT, 1584

PHILIPP LONICER [MENAXINO, GIOVANANTONIO]: CHRONICORUM TURCICORUM IN QUIBIS TURCORUM ORIGO, PRINCIPES, IMPERATORES, BELLA, PRAELIA, CAEDES, VICTORIAE, REIQUE MILITARIS RATIO, & CAETERA HUC PERTINENTIA, CONTINUO ORDINE, & PERSPICUA BREUITATE EXPONUNTUR; ET MAHOMATICAE RELIGIONIS INSTITUTA; IUDICIORUM QUE PROCESSIUS, & AULAE CONSTITUTIO; PROCERUM ITEM AC POPULI MORES, VITA QUE DEGENDAE RATIO PERCENSETUR. FRANKFURT, 1584 First edition, in 8vo, two volumes in one., contemporary full leather with nice stamped decoration on covers, complete: {16} 435, {13} pages and {16}, 208, {14} pages, with woodcut vignettes on the title pages and fine impressum, text clean, some stains in the upper borders of the pages ,title of volume one slightly dusty, very light scattered spotting in few pages, overall in very good condition. Menaxino was a Genoese young traveler who had been captured by the Turkish, enslaved and forced into service inside the Topkapi palace. The Chronicorum Turcicorum, a lengthy work, tracks the rapid expansion of the Ottomans through the Balkans and the Levant, the collapse of the Byzantine world and the systematic conquest and ruin of major Greek places. Mexanino's own text is embedded within the work providing an early detailed analysis of the Devshirme (Παιδομάζωμα). A crucial 16th century work for Greece and the Levant.