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Printing in Constantinople and Alarming Library Finds
The Daily Courant reports on forthcoming works printed in Constantinople including a Turkish geography and world map by Chalife and a Turkish grammar with a Latin vocabulary. It notes presses, Turkish type, and Father Holderman’s plans, with costs in rizdollars. Also described is a Portuguese find of 1000 volumes in a stone building, their scripts possibly Mogul or Kalmyk, and unreadable in Goa. Moscow and Hamburg items cover coinage, military plans on the Caspian frontier, and royal progress in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courant
Constantinople
Orconian Empire
Chagi Chalife
Tijatib Tebelchs
Asia
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Tyco Brahe
Egypt
Father Holderman
Ibrahim Effendi
Holderman
Lisbon
N.S
Persan Gulf
Ormus
Lareca
Persepolis
Paris
Island
Goa
China
Ginghishan
Tamerlane
Europe
Pouffz
Tibet
Manippe Fouque
Siam
Moscow
Czarina
Caspian Sea
Voronitz
Persia
Ouglast
Liparian
Baron de Schaffirof
Armenia
Count de Munich
Peterseburg
Petersburg
Olonitz
Revel
Riga
N. S
Stockholm
Gallowin
Bielk
Torstensohn
France
Sweden
Count de Casteja