Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 6067

Siege of Rhodes Facsimile Edition

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The text of the Siege of Rhodes manuscript recounts the Ottoman army's 1480 blockade of the island through the eyewitness account of Guillaume Caoursin, vice-chancellor of the Christian Order of the Hospitallers of Jerusalem. After the siege, the Ottoman Sultan's son Djem (Zizim in the text) sought asylum in Rhodes under the protection of the Grand Master of the Hospitallers, Pierre d'Aubusson, who commissioned the manuscript. The Master of Cardinal Bourbon, working in Paris around 1482-1483, is responsible for the lavish program of illumination, which includes fifty-two full-page miniatures.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Siege of Rhodes": El Sitio de Rodas facsimile edition, published by Club Bibliófilo Versol, 2006

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Manuscript book description compiled by Erin K. Donovan.
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El Sitio de Rodas

Madrid: Club Bibliófilo Versol, 2006

  • Commentary (Spanish)
  • Limited Edition: 575 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Siege of Rhodes: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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