Histoire de la conqueste d'Espagne par les Mores, Composée en arabe Par Abulcacim Tariff Abentariq de la Ville de Medine, un des Capitaines qui furent à cette expedition. Traduite en espagnol par Michel de Luna de la Ville de Grenade [...]

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Histoire de la conqueste d'Espagne par les Mores, Composée en arabe Par Abulcacim Tariff Abentariq de la Ville de Medine, un des Capitaines qui furent à cette expedition. Traduite en espagnol par Michel de Luna de la Ville de Grenade, Interpreté de Philippe II. en la Langue Arabe. Avec une Dissertation de celuy qui l'a mise en François sur la verité de cette Histoire, conferée avec celles d'Espagne, &amp; quelques Manuscrits Arabes, Turcs &amp; Persans pour y servir de Preface &amp; de preuve. Tome premier.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of two volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [24], 364, f. [1] (blank). Calf. Gilt spine with elevated bars. Edges spread in red. Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Bookplates of Franz Pollack-Parnau. Manuscript labels.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">French edition of an ‘eyewitness’ account of the Moorish conquest of Spain, supposedly translated from an Arabic manuscript discovered ‘in the Escorial’ by Miguel de Luna. The first edition of this historical forgery (or romance), titled ‘La verdadera hystoria del rey Don Rodrigo,’ was published at Granada, 1592-1600. The first French edition appeared in 1638.
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