Joseph Morgan (fl. 1739) was a British historical compiler.[1]
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Morgan edited a periodical Phoenix Britannicus, being a miscellaneous Collection of scarce and curious Tracts… interspersed with choice pieces from original MSS., from January 1732. It ran for six numbers, republished in one volume, with dedication to Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.[2] Other works included:[1]
Mahometism Fully Explained (1723).
Mahometism Explained (1725). These two were in part based on a manuscript of 1603 by Muḥammad Rabadán of Aragon.[3]
The History of Algiers (1728–9).
A Compleat History of the Present Seat of War in Africa, between the Spaniards and Algerines (1732).[4]
The Lives and Memorable Actions of many Illustrious Persons of the Eastern Nations (1739), based partly on papers of George Sale.
He also made some translations from French and Dutch.[1]
Notesedit
^ abcMercer, M. J. "Morgan, Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19225. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Nabil Matar, 'Joseph Morgan', in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Volume 13: Western Europe (1700-1800), ed. by David Thomas and John A. Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 188-196; ISBN9004402837.
^J[oseph] Morgan (1732). A Compleat History of the Present Seat of War in Africa, between the Spaniards and Algerines; Giving a Full and Exact Account of Oran and Al-Marsa. Compiled from the Best Approved Spanish Writers; the Author's Twenty Years Knowledge of the Country; and from Diverse Late Conferences with Haj Mahammed, the Algerine Envoy and Haj Ali, His Excellency's Secretary, now here Resident. With a New Map of the Kingdom of Algiers; and Several Useful Annotations. London: Printed for W[illiam] Mears, at the Lamb in the Old Bailey; and J. Stone, Bedford-Row, near Gray’s-Inn. OCLC 1326110995.
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