Notes sur le 'Târîh-i Ungurus' de Terdzümân Mahmûd. [Separatum Acta Orient. Hung. tomus XIII. Fasc. 1-2).

HAZAI GYÖRGY, (1932-2016). Acta Orient. Hung., Budapest, 1961. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 70-84 pp. Including the introduction, transcription in Ottoman Turkish, translation into French, and facsimile of the original manuscript text in the Ottoman Turkish. "The Tarih-i Ungurus, written between 1543 and 1566, tells the history of the lands of Hungary from the conquest of the region by Alexander the Great to the death of King Louis II at the Battle of Mohács in 1526. The only known copy is held in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where it arrived after its rediscovery and initial publication by Ármin Vámbéry in 1860. The 210 folios of unillustrated text are composed of a combination of Ottoman Turkish prose and verse. The title page reads Tarih-i Ungurus with the partially rubbed out subtitle Iskendername, or history of Alexander the Great. The page also includes the signatures of two previous owners, one Muhammed Amin Abu l'Is'ad Tusturzade and the ot