Hazard, Cornelius. Kerckelycke Historie van de Gheheele Werelt, Vol. IV (only) [History of Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Greece, Muscovy, Persia, Morocco, and Tartary]

(SABBATIANA)

Michiel Cnobbaert

Antwerp

1671

ONLY EDITION. Between pages 236-237, and again between pp. 242-243, huge plates of Shabbetai Zevi (false Messiah of Izmir) and Nathan of Gaza (Zevi’s prophet) and other personalities.

Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi (Princeton, 1975), p. 940, no. 50

A world history which contains invaluable plates of and information concerning the saga of Shabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), certainly one of the most famous (or infamous) of pseudo-Messiahs. According to Scholem, the data provided in our work concerning Shabbetai Zevi was compiled from the testimonies of Sir Paul Rycaut (British consul at Smyrna/Izmir) and an anonymous Christian who happened to be present in Constantinople at the time of the momentous events of 1666, when Zevi went public with his claim to be Messiah.