ADELPHUS, Johannes (= Johann Adolf MUELICH, MULING or MUL...

Die Türckisch Chronica won [sic] irem Ursprung Anefang und Regiment, biß uff dise Zeyt, sampt irem Kriegen und Streyten mit den Christen begangen, erbärmklich zu lesen.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Johann Knoblouch, 1516. With 19 large woodcut illustrations (13.5 x 13.5 cm) plus 7 repeats (1 on the title and the rest in the text), and several woodcut border strips.WITH: EUSEBIUS, Pamphili, bishop of Caesarea and others. En Damus Chronicon Divinum plane opus eruditissimorum autorum, repetitum ab ipso mundi initio, ad annum usque salutis. M.D.XII.Basel, Henricus Petri, (colophon: March) 1529.WITH: ...

      (60), 207, (1); (48); (22); (22) ll. Adelphus: BMC STC German, p. 3; Chrisman, Bibl. Strasbourg Imp. V9.1.3b; VD 16, A-237; cf. Adams A-148 (1513 ed.); not in FairMur (G); Navari, Ottoman World (Atabey Coll.).Eusebius: Adams E-1075; JCB, p. 100; VD 16, E-4266; cf. Alden & Landis 518/3 (1518 Estienne ed.); Mortimer (French) 217 (1518 Estienne ed.); Sabin 23114 (1512 Estienne ed.); not in BMC STC German.Koebel: BMC STC German, p. 475; VD 16, K-1622; not in Adams; FairMur (G).Landsperger: Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (7 copies); not in Adams; BMC STC German; FairMur (G); OCLC WorldCat. Second edition (the last published during the author's life) of Adelphus's German chronicle of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings to 1500, with special emphasis on the Crusades and with numerous woodcut illustrations. Bound with it is one of the earliest editions of Eusebius's Latin world chronicle to include the 1512 continuation with its reference to "savages" brought from the "new world" in 1509. Bound with these are an early edition of Koebel's illustrated account of the structure, organization and protocol of the Holy Roman Empire and its nobility, and the rare first and only edition of Landsperger's list of the religious and secular nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in 1541, both in German.Adelphus (1485-1523) first published his Turkish chronicle at Strasbourg in 1513. The woodcuts show battles and other scenes from the Middle East, presenting Ottomans, European kings and noblemen, and crusaders bearing the cross on their clothes and banners. Some appear on horseback, others in European or Eastern ships, others in fortified cities. Some woodcuts show a perspective and style reminiscent of mediaeval art, while others are good examples of Renaissance work showing modern perspective and rendering each figure with personal character.Eusebius's chronicle originally extended only to the year 329, but was continued by Saint Jerome (to 381), Saint Tiro Prosper Aquitanus (to 448), Mattia Palmieri (in two stages to 1481) and Joannes Multivallis (to 1512). Parts were first published ca. 1475, all but Multivallis's continuation in 1483 and the complete text as we now know it by Estienne in Paris in 1512. The present edition probably follows Estienne's 1518 edition, which for some reason presented Multivallis's continuation anonymously. Like the 1483 edition, it names Johannes Gutenberg as the inventor of printing under the year 1457 (when Fust & Schöffer, without Gutenberg, published the Mainz Psalter, the first printed book to bear a date) and erroneously dates his invention to 1440, establishing a tradition that still reigned until the celebrations of 1940. When Multivallis wrote his continuation in 1512, Columbus's 1492 landing in America had not yet been elevated to the canon of great dates in history, but the book has long been listed under Americana for its report of "savages" from the "new world" ("Septem homines sylvestres ex ea insula, quæ terra nova dicitur") brought to Rouen in 1509. Multivallis's description led people to believe these were Brazilian or Canadian Indians, but Desrey's prologue to the 1518 edition of Gaguin's La Mer des Croniques , after noting an event of 1510, uses nearly the same words to describe people brought to Rouen from the island of Oran in present-day Algeria ("Et de ceste isle appellee terre neufue furent ... sept ho(m)mes saulvaiges": Davies in Fairfax Murray (French) 184).Koebel (ca. 1460-1533) first published the present account of the Holy Roman Empire at his own Oppenheim press in 1512. It is especially interesting for its woodcuts, with a double-page topographic view showing the buildings, fortifications and coats of arms of twelve German cities (each city enlarged far beyond the scale of the view itself, so that they show a great deal of detail). The other double-page view shows the Emperor, the seven Electors and more than twenty other noblemen of the Empire, each with his coat of arms. As works of art, however, the finest woodcuts are those of the Emperor and seven Electors, again with their coats of arms, the full-page illustration of the seated Emperor (Frederick I?), and the illustration on the title-page, in which the kneeling figure presenting a book to the noblemen may represent the author himself. The Landsperger uses the same woodcut of the Emperor and Electors (with different border strips), but adds two new scenes (in a single full-page woodblock) and the title-page portrait of the Emperor standing on an armillary sphere (his arms are those of Maximilian I and Charles V, though he doesn't closely resemble other portraits of either).With occasional contemporary manuscript notes, and Swiss library stamps on the title-pages and endpapers. The binding shows different elaborate panel designs on the front and back boards, with three or four rolls (two with portraits and vases, one of them also with a drum) and several individual stamps. In good condition, with one small worm hole through much of the Eusebius and a few more in its first few leaves, and an occasional minor marginal tear or water stain. The binding is rebacked (with most of the original backstrip laid down) and restored, and some of the endpapers replaced. The extensively illustrated Turkish Chronicle and three other historical works from the first half of the sixteenth century.