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1653 · elala1607 — Saros-Patak Hungary: Typis Illustrissimae Principis Excudebat Georgius Renius 1653. 1653. folio. pp. 1 p.l. 582. old vellum overlapping fore-edges recased vellum soiled ties wanting 3 small library rubberstamps some scattered foxing & browning. In June 1606 Archduke Matthias in the name of the Emperor Rudolph II concluded the Treaty of Vienna with the rebellious Hungarians by granting extensive concessions and in November of the same year he concluded the truce of Zsitvatörök with the Sultan Ahmed I. "By the peace of Vienna Stephen Bocskay obtained religious liberty and political autonomy the restoration of all confiscated estates the repeal of all unrighteous judgments and a complete retrospective amnesty for all the Magyars in royal Hungary besides his own recognition as independent sovereign prince of the enlarged Transylvania. This treaty is remarkable as being the first constitutional compact between the ruling dynasty and the Hungarian nation. Almost equally important was the twenty years’ truce of Zsitvatörök negotiated by Bocskay between the emperor and the sultan which established for the first time a working equilibrium between the three parts of Hungary with a distinct political preponderance in favour of Transylvania…The emperor on the other hand was freed from the humiliating annual tribute to the Porte on payment of a war indemnity of 400000…". Encyc. Britan. 11th Edn. The text of the two treaties pp. 30 is followed by the articles of various Hungarian statutes and ordinances dating from 1608 to 1649 pp. 31-582. The BM copy contains further articles for 1659 not present here. Saros-Patak [Hungary]: Typis Illustrissimae Principis Excudebat Georgius Renius, 1653. hardcover