Mohammed III, Emperor of the Turks (1566-1603)

“Circoncizione di Mehemet (sic) 3°: tradotta del turco”. A late 17th cent. transcript of perhaps a contemporary (1579) account, extracted from a Collection of transcripts relating to Turkey, in Italian. This belonged to Frederic North, 5th Earl of Guildford (1783-1827), and was later bought by John Lee (1763-1868), Antiquary and Scientist.

c.1685

3 ll. folio. 28 x 201/2cm

Purchased 1934.

Mohammed III was circumcized at the age of 13 'ad imitazione d'Ismaele'. He succeeded his Father Amurath III in 1595.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).