The Turkish Threat
CLEMENT VII.
Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des VII. an Römische Kaiserlich und Künigliche Maiesteten &c. zu ernstlicher Gegenwer und Widerstand dem Türckischen Einbruch und Überfal. Mit reihlichem Versprechen unnd Darthun treffenlichs Beistands Hilf und Zusatz. [Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.
4to, pp. [8]; marginal paperflaws to A4, else a very good, wide-margined copy; bound in modern boards; contemporary ink annotations to 4 pp.
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Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des VII. an Römische Kaiserlich und Künigliche Maiesteten &c. zu ernstlicher Gegenwer und Widerstand dem Türckischen Einbruch und Überfal. Mit reihlichem Versprechen unnd Darthun treffenlichs Beistands Hilf und Zusatz.
First and only edition of this German translation of a papal bull addressing the Turkish threat in Europe.
Addressed to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, and his brother Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and – since the Hungarian defeat at the hands of the Turks at Mohács in 1526 – King of Hungary, the bull announces the Pope’s intention to replace Cardinal Campeggio with Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici as legate to the imperial court. The annotator of our copy draws particular attention to Clement VII’s announcement that Cardinal de’ Medici will be tasked with enlisting ten thousand Hungarian horsemen to face the Turkish threat.
Evidently of some popular interest amid the ongoing fear of a Turkish advance into Europe in the aftermath of the Siege of Vienna, two German translations were printed in the same year, the other under the title Ein tröstliche Epistel bepstlicher Heiligkeit (Leipzig, Michael Blum).
No copies traced outside continental Europe.
USTC 698821; VD16 K-353; Apponyi 1683; Göllner 480.