The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan (6 Nov 1494 - 5 Sept 1566)

Suleiman I was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520-1566. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliman_the_Magnificent References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

22. A large Picture describing the Siege of Vienna by Solyman the Magnificent, and at the same time the Siege of Florence by the Emperour Charles the Fifth and Pope Clement the Seventh, with this Subscription, Tum vacui capitis populum Phæaca putares?