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Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio
This work by Flemish Guillaume Caoursin (d.1501), Chancellor of the Order of St John, describes the siege of Rhodes of 1480. Caoursin gives a vivid, first-hand account of the siege, describing how the Ottomans under Sultan Mohamet II attacked and beseiged the island of Rhodes, home of the knights of St John. The siege which lasted from May to August 1480, ended in a hard-won victory for the knig…
Creator
- Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
Publisher
- Erhardus Ratdolt
Subject
- Turkey-History-Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
- Knights of Malta
- Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
- Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8
- Rhodes (Greece)
- Venice (Italy)
Date
- post 19 August 1480
Creator
- Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
Publisher
- Erhardus Ratdolt
Subject
- Turkey-History-Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
- Knights of Malta
- Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
- Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8
- Rhodes (Greece)
- Venice (Italy)
Date
- post 19 August 1480
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Place-Time
- Venetiis
Identifier
- http://www.digivault.maltalibraries.gov.mt/Home/RenderThumb/18
- http://www.digivault.maltalibraries.gov.mt/Home/ViewRecord/18
Format
- Book ; 18 ff. ; 120 x 14 cm
Language
- Latin
Providing country
- Malta
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-08-15T14:26:10.354Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-09-23T14:47:37.813Z