The Order in Rhodes

Manuscript* illustrations based on the woodcuts in

Descriptio Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis by Guillaume Caoursin

Originals: Bibliothèque National, Paris, MS lat. 6067

The town of Rhodes

Grandmaster d'Aubusson supervises the repairs to the fortifications		Grandmaster d'Aubusson tours the city
The Turkish attack on St Nicholas Tower		The knights' counterattack at the Curtain of Italy
Scenes of encounter between the knights and Turks		The height of the siege on Rhodes
The carnage committed by the retreating Turks		Caoursin reads a papal brief to Grandmaster d'Aubusson
Grandmaster d'Aubusson listens to Caoursin's peroration on the death of  Sultan Mehmet II		Two ambassadors from the Order at the court of the Ottoman Sultan
The knights at Mass during the earthquake (1481)		Caoursin presenting his work to Grandmaster d'Aubusson
Prince Djem, brother and rival of the Ottoman Sultan, arrives in Rhodes 1482		Grandmaster d'Aubusson entertains Prince Djem

Two  examples of the original woodcuts

The Order captures Rhodes in 1309

The earthquake of 1481

*Published Manuscripts

Caoursin, Guillaume: La Grande et Merveilleuse et Très Cruelle Oppugnation de la noble cité de Rhodes, prise par le sultan Soleyman de Jacques Bâtard de Bourbon, Pierre Vidoue for Gilles, 1525 and 1527

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