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Lot #    7769
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 12:16:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kerckelycke Historie van de Gheheele Werelt
Title (Hebrew)    Vol. IV
Author    [Sabbatiana] Cornelius Hazard
City    Antwerp
Publisher    Michiel Cnobbaert
Publication Date    1671
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Description		    Only edition. [12], 412, [23] pp., 314:196 mm., wide crisp margins, usual light age and damp staining, sprinkled edges. A very good copy bound in contemporary full calf boards, spine in compartments, tooled in gilt, light rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    Between pages 236-237, and again between pp. 242-243, engraved plates of Shabbetai Zevi (false Messiah of Izmir) and Nathan of Gaza (Zevi's prophet) and other personalities.
          
Detailed
Description		    A History of Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Greece, Muscovy, Persia, Morocco, and Tartary which contains invaluable plates of and information concerning the saga of Shabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), certainly one of the most infamous of pseudo-Messiahs.

According to Scholem, the data provided in this work concerning Shabbetai Zevi was compiled from the testimonies of Sir Paul Rycaut (British consul at Smyrna/Izmir) and an anonymous Christian who happened to be present in Constantinople at the time of the momentous events of 1666, when Zevi went public with his claim to be Messiah.

          
Reference
Description		    Sabbatai Sevi (Princeton, 1975), p. 940, no. 50
        
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