EMIR NASSIR EDDIN YAHIA: ABREGE DU SELDJOUQ NAME. PARIS 1889 First edition of the famous Sedjouk Name. Large in 4to,edited by the famous orientalist C. Schefer, in Recueil de textes et de traductions together with some other texts, original paper cover dusty, spine and back cover restored, text clean and bright, complete 102p. for the Seldjuk Name, the volume complete with 378p. In total, overall very good. Emir Nassir Eddin Yahia ibn Mohammed, mostly known as Ibn-el-Biby,was the chief officer of the Seldjuk State in Anatolia during the reign of Sultan Keykobad in mid 13th century. He had travelled all around the Levant of its time and had composed, Based on the official registers, the history of the Seldjuks from the end of 12th century (1192) up to 1282. The original full version is actually lost, but the Seldjuk nameh had been abridged, since the 15th century and translated in Turkish that time, as it had been initially written in Farsi (Persian), the official language of the Seldjuks. It is an invaluable source for 13th century medieval Anatolia, precious for the comprehension of the decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor, ravaged that time by continuous Turkmen incursions, but also primordial for the understanding of the transformation of the Byzantine Christian Anatolia in a Muslim state. As all the other Turkish sources from that time have not survived, the Seldjuk Nameh, the epos of the Seldjuks, is the most ancient comprehensive Turkish source regarding Anatolia. An important part of the understanding of the medieval history of Anatolia has been altered after this first printed edition. The book was edited by Charles.Schefer, the leading Orientalist of its time. Very rare