The true description of Cairo : a sixteenth-century Venetian view / [Matteo Pagano and Guillaume Postel] ; [translated and edited] by Nicholas Warner

Author: Pagano, Matheo, active 1538-1562
Published: Oxford : Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description: 3 volumes (various pagings) : color illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
Additional Creators: Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581 and Warner, Nicholas

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Series

Studies in the Arcadian Library ; no. 1.

Language Note

Translated from the Latin.

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ISBN

0197144063 (set)
9780197144060 (set)
0197144039 (v. 1)
9780197144039 (v. 1)
0197144047 (v. 2)
9780197144046 (v. 2)
0197144055 (v. 3)
9780197144053 (v. 3)
0197714404
9780197714409

Note

Vol. 2 includes facsimile of Guillaume Postel's Descriptio Alcahirae urbis with English translation and commentary; v. 3 (slip case containing map) is a facsimile of Matheo Pagano's La vera descritio ne dela gran cita del Caiero.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

Arts & Humanities copy, vols. 1-3: Purchased with funds from the Class of 1968 Libraries Program Endowment; 20078.
Arts & Humanities copy, vols. 1-3: Purchased with funds from the Randolph and Ellen Lytton Libraries Collections Endowment; 20078.

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