Title:

Abbild- und Beschreibung deß Türckischen Haup-Fahnens / welcher von denen deß Hochlöbl. Schwäbischen Reichs-Creises Auxiliar-Völckern in der jüngsthin eroberten Vestung / Neuhäussel / gebeutet und zuruck gebracht worden. Samt beygefügter Erklärung der darinn befindlichen Arabischen Schrifft. Verfertiget von Matthias Friedrich Becken / Ecclesiaste Augustano

Short title

Abbild- und Beschreibung deß Türckischen Haup-Fahnens

Title variations

Title in English

A Copy and Explication of the Turkish Military Standard seized by the Auxiliary Forces of the most glorious Swabian Imperial-Circle in the recently conquered fortification Neuhäusel (Nové Zámky). Together with an explication of the Arabic writing therein.

Section

Language

German

Creation date

1686

Genre

Treatise

Content

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

Source

Use (macro-category)

Academic / Scientific

Use (micro-category)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Following the conquest of the Ottoman fortress in Nóve Zámky (in modern Slovakia) in 1685 (two years into the Great Turkish War) by Imperial Forces, the Swabian forces seized an Ottoman standard there and brought it back with them. The Augsburg preacher and orientalist Matthias Friedrich Beck (1649-1701), relying on a copy of the standard, offers a short analysis of it and of the Arabic text sewn into it. The latter comprises mostly of the first three verses of Surat al-Fatḥ, which Beck produced in Hebrew transliteration, accompanied by a Latin phonetic transcript and German translation, with some added notes.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov