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Netherlands
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Folger call number: PR1400 7263
Folger holdings ID: 68322
Notes
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Translation of Histoire du grand empereur Tamerlanes Original title page reads: The historie of the great Emperovr Tamerlan. VVherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diuerse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished ... Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by Messire Iean du Bec, Abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. By H. M. London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1597 Purports to be based on a work by Alhacen, an Arabian companion of Timur Reproduction of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, copy, STC 7263
Also known as
Alternate titles: Great Emperour Tamerlan
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Related names
subject: Timur, 1336-1405
associated with: Alhacen