BARTOL DURDEVIC (Bartholomeo Georgievicz): DE TURCARUM MORIBUS EPITOME. PARIS 1568 Later mid 16th century edition, contemporary vellum soiled,170p., index and 6 woodcuts, some irregularities in the pagination of the text, text mostly clean and bright with scattered light spotting, overall in very good condition. Bartol Đurđević ( c. 1506-1566) was a Croatian scholar and soldier who was captured by the Turks at the Battle of Mohács in 1526. He spent 13 years as a slave in the Ottoman Empire, escaping multiple times before finally succeeding.Upon his return to Europe, he dedicated his life to warning the West about the Turkish threat. He was one of the first authors to provide a realistic, non-fictionalized account of Ottoman life, religion, and military power. This parisian edition is a summary of his observations. It describes Levantine daily life, prayer, diet, and social hierarchy, includes the early Prophecy of the Red Apple (Vaticinium de expugnatione Constantinopolis), a famous Turkish prophecy that predicted the eventual fall of the Ottoman Empire and Constantinople again to Christians. It contain a small dictionary or phrasebook of Turkish, Arabic, and Slavonic terms. The 1568 edition is famous for its small, charming woodcut illustrations. These depict people and scenes from the Levant. A 15th century eyewitness account for the life under the jug of the Turks.