Les quatre premiers livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales
Book
1568 (published)
1568 (published)
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Printed book with hand-coloured title-page and 60 hand-coloured engravings.
Missing leaf **4.
Missing leaf **4.
Object details
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| Title | Les quatre premiers livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Half leather hollow back with cloth sides, machine made endbands, single fold tipped in endleaves. |
| Brief description | Book, Les quatre premiers livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales, by Nicolas de Nicolay, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1568. |
| Physical description | Printed book with hand-coloured title-page and 60 hand-coloured engravings. Missing leaf **4. |
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| Gallery label | Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, V&A:<br>
TURKISH FOOTMAN, IN 'TRAVELS AND VOYAGES IN TURKEY'<br>
1567–8<br>
Nicolas de Nicolay (1517–83)<br>
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Although they reflected European prejudices of the time, Nicolay's influential books were among the first to provide first-hand images of Turkish people and their customs. He based the books on observations and sketches he made while accompanying a French delegation to Istanbul in 1551. The text describes how Turkish footmen could run as fast as the best horses and carried news swiftly across the Ottoman Empire. Bells on their clothes warned people of their impending arrival.<br>
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France, Lyon<br>
Ink on paper; hand-coloured engravings<br>
Les quatre premiers livres des navigations et pérégrinations orientales; 1567–8, second issue of first edition<br>
Printed and published by Guillaume Rouillé<br>
Museum no. 310-1884 |
| Object history | Collection of François-Michel-César Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux (1718-1781): stamp inscribed 'LE MIS DE COURTANVAUX' with arms of the Marquis de Courtanvaux (f. *2 recto and p. 180). The book does not seem to feature in the Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu François-César Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux... (Paris, 1782). Accessioned by the Museum on 13 May 1884. |
| Bibliographic reference | Link to fully digitised copy in the BnF which misses the Title-page, dedication, table of contents and preface: |
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| Library number | 310-1884 |
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| Record created | October 30, 2018 |
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