Figures
1.1 Epitaph of Sebastian and Ursula Tengnagel, Stephansdom, Vienna 26
1.2 Map of Gelderland 27
1.3 Sebastian Tengnagel’s Coat of Arms from the Wappenbuch of the City of Vienna, Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv, Handschriften, A 290, fol. 7r 36
2.1 Sample of Tengnagel’s handwriting (Cod. 9737r, fol. 42r = STR031) 52
2.2 Tengnagel correspondence, chronology 62
2.3 Tengnagel correspondence, places of issue (total: 1597–1636) 62
2.4 Tengnagel correspondence, places of issue (R: 1597–1614) 62
2.5 Tengnagel correspondence, places of issue (S: 1615–1624) 63
2.6 Tengnagel correspondence, places of issue (T: 1625–1636) 63
2.7 Tengnagel correspondence, network of people mentioned (total: 1597–1636) 64
2.8 Tengnagel correspondence, network of people mentioned (R: 1597–1614) 64
2.9 Tengnagel correspondence, network of people mentioned (S: 1615–1624) 65
2.10 Tengnagel correspondence, network of people mentioned (T: 1625–1636) 65
3.1 Album amicorum Brinck, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag [133M 86], fol. 32r 72
3.2 Letter from Samuel Slade, ÖNB, Cod. 9737r, fol. 96v 87
3.3 Letter from Jakob Christmann, ÖNB, Cod. 9737r, fol. 208r 95
3.4 Moses of Mardin’s Syriac–Arabic lexicon, ÖNB, Cod. 15162, fol. 4v 102
3.5 Pedro de Alcalá, Lexicon Arabico-Hipanum, ÖNB, Cod. 15164, fol. 1 112
3.6 Pietro Della Valle’s Letter, ÖNB, Autogr. 10/34, fol. 749r (2r) 118
3.7 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 180, fol. 2rv 123
3.8 Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Ma’adanei Melekh, ÖNB, Prunksaal Signatur: 20.O.6 129
4.1 ÖNB, Cod. 9539, fol. 43r 147
4.2 ÖNB, Cod. 12650, fol. 16r 148
4.3 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 5, fol. 39r 153
4.4 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 5, fol. 117r 154
4.5 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 12, fol. 1r 156
4.6 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 12, fol. 1v 157
4.7 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 12, fol. 219v 159
4.8 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 26, fol. 20r 161
4.9 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 26, fol. 304v 163
4.10 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 31, fol. 2r 164
4.11 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 31, fol. 6r 165
4.12 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 53, fol. 215v–216r 166
4.13 ÖNB, Cod. 8997, fol. 52v 170
4.14 ÖNB, Cod. 9737t, fol. 261v 172
4.15 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 472, fol. 1r 180
4.16 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 39, fol. 250r 185
4.17 ÖNB, Cod. 8997, fol. 60r 189
4.18 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 12, fol. 75r 191
4.19 ÖNB, 63.K.32 title page, Jean Du Bec’s Histoire du grand Tamerlanes 192
4.20 ÖNB, 63.L.19 title page, J. B. Podestà’s De gestis Timurlenkii 193
4.21 ÖNB, 63.L.13 ALT PRUNK, Relaciones De Pedro Teixeira, verso of the title page 195
4.22 ÖNB, Cod. 15164, fol. 82v 196
4.23 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 12, fol. 12r 198
4.24 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 223, fol. 25v 199
5.1 Leo Lucerna’s letter to Samuel Archivolti, ÖNB, Cod. 9737t, fol. 306v 208
5.2 ÖNB, Cod. Hebr. 30, fol. 1v 212
5.3 Wien Museum, 29652 (‘Einbringung der Türkenbeute aus Ungarn nach Wien im Jänner 1594’) 214
5.4 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 246, fol. 1v 221
5.5 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 247 222
5.6 Giacomo Franco, “Strigonia Fortezza in Hungaria assediata” 224
5.7 ÖNB, Cod. Ser. n. 284, fol. 23v 228
5.8 ÖNB, Cod. A. F. 32, fols. 76rv 230
5.9 ÖNB, Cod. 9737r, fol. 240r 232
5.10 ÖNB, Cod. 8997, fol. 52r 240
5.11 ÖNB, Cod. 15161, fols. 100v, 85v 244
5.12 Barbatus’s letter, ÖNB, Cod. 9737t, f. 263r 246
5.13 Vienna, Haus-Hof und Staatsarchiv, HA OMaA, fol. 1r 249
5.14 Stammbuch von Reinhard Wasserhun, Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH AN VI 26d, fol. 110r 255
5.15 Album amicorum of Thomas Cuming, British Library, Add MS 17083, fol. 200r 256
5.16 Album amicorum Hillbrandt, Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Ta-Th – Cod.hist.fol.889-44, fol. 33r 256
6.1 ÖNB, Cod. 13547, cover 271
6.2 ÖNB, Cod. 13547, fol. 41r 272
6.3 ÖNB, Cod. 13548, fol. 19v 279
6.4 ÖNB, Cod. 9479, fol. 67r, Dissection of the Manuscript nr. 106 281
6.5 ÖNB, Cod. 13541, fol. 11r 284
6.6 ÖNB, Cod. 7961, fol. 1r, Example of a Blotius’ paper-slip and callmark (left, Y5569) erased and modified by Tengnagel because it was a manuscript, then nr. 423. Call mark confirmed by Lambeck (third hand) 287
6.7 ÖNB, Cod. 9737r, fol. 78v, verso of a letter written by Petrus Kirstenius and used by Tengnagel as a Syngrapha 290
6.8 HHStA, RHR, BK 1, 1–52, 1614 8/12, fol. 14r 302
Tables
4.1 Sebastian Tengnagel’s Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Mixed manuscripts 150
4.2 Tengnagel’s notebooks 174
4.3 Tengnagel’s Qurʾan collection 178
4.4 Tengnagel’s prayer books 179
4.5 Tengnagel’s Arabic, Persian and Turkish dictionaries and grammars 182
4.6 Tengnagel’s collection of historical works 186