The History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677

Paul Rycaut, The History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 (London, 1680), “Anno 1666. Hegeira 1077.”: pp. 200–202 and 214–215 (Internet Archive b30326953, Wellcome Collection copy, leaves n307–n309, n321–n322). Reader unit: year heading and introduction (p. 200), pp. 201 (“According to the Predictions”) to 202 (“trade and interest.”), with the biography of Sabatai Sevi (pp. 201–202) omitted and marked […]. Note unit: pp. 214–215 from “But now Sabatai not having faith” to “their Mahometan Messiah.” Rycaut says the account first appeared elsewhere as “an issue of my Pen”; a near-identical text was printed anonymously in John Evelyn, The History of the Three Late Famous Impostors (London, 1669), which reads “month of June” where Rycaut prints “month of July” (Rycaut’s margin prints “June.”). Superscript “th” in “27th” lowered; marginal year notes “1666.” omitted. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item's OCR text layer.

Anno 1666, pp. 200–202, 214–215