A briefe relation of the Turckes, their kings, Emperors, or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion
A briefe relation of the Turckes, their kings, Emperors, or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion, customes, habbits, etc.Paper leaf cutouts: cyclamen and lilac on the left, pink roses and tulip in the center, tulip on the right.From an album in the collection of The British Museum dated 1618, Istanbul. The album bears the initials PM, probably for Peter Mundy, a 17th Century merchant trader, traveler, and writer. “It is rare to find a man so representative of his period as was Peter Mundy. In an age when curiosity was the outstanding characteristic of intelligent Englishmen, curiosity was the ruling passion of this life. … His insatiable appetite for information, his eye for detail, his desire for accuracy, would have made him in modern times a first-rate scientist.” ~ Dorothy Carrington (1949), The Traveller’s Eye, pp.178-79. -- source link