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

(SHABTHAI TZVI).

Michiel Cnobbaert

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1671

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

A world history which contains invaluable plates of, and information concerning, the saga of Shabthai Zvi (1626-76), certainly one of the most famous (or infamous) of pseudo-Messiahs. According to Gershom Scholem, the information provided in this work 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 Shabbetai Zevi went public with his claim to be the Messiah. See G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi (1975) p. 940, no. 50.