The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia.
- Title
- The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia.
- Author
- Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
- Publication
- In the Savoy :: Printed for Henry Herringman ...,
- 1669.
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- Subject terms
- Ottomano, -- Padre, b. 1641?
- Mehmet Bey.
- Shabbethai Tzevi, 1626-1676.
- Jews -- Iran.
- Venice (Italy) -- History -- Turkish Wars, 17th century.
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"The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a38790.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY, Lord ARLINGTON, &c. Principal SECRETARY of STATE.
- To the READER.
- ERRATA.
- THE HISTORY OF PADRE OTTOMANO, The first Impostor.
- THE STORY OF MAHOMED BEI, Who calls Himself Ioannes Michael Cigala; Being at the Writing hereof in the COURT of ENGLAND; Where this Second Impostor was first DELATED.
- THE HISTORY OF SABATAI SEVI, The Pretended Messiah of the Iewes, In the Year of our Lord, 1666. The Third Impostor.
- THE HISTORY Of the Late FINAL EXTIRPATION And EXILEMENT of the IEWES Out of the EMPIRE OF PERSIA.