198 letters in Ottoman Turkish and Italian comprising official correspondence between English ambassador to the Sublime Porte William Trumbulland many high-ranking Ottoman officials (including Sulṭān Süleymān IIand his Ṣadra‘ẓam Köprülüzāde Fāżıl Muṣṭafā Paşa ), including letters addressed from the latter parties to other foreign dignitaries. Why some of this correspondence has been rendered in Italian is unknown. — Multiple dates; Istanbul
MS. Rawl. Or. 33
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
198 letters in Ottoman Turkish and Italian comprising official correspondence between English ambassador to the Sublime Porte William Trumbulland many high-ranking Ottoman officials (including Sulṭān Süleymān IIand his Ṣadra‘ẓam Köprülüzāde Fāżıl Muṣṭafā Paşa ), including letters addressed from the latter parties to other foreign dignitaries. Why some of this correspondence has been rendered in Italian is unknown. — Multiple dates; Istanbul
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. Or. 33
Place of origin
Istanbul
Date
17 August 1687 to 29 June 1691
Language
Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
Italian
Contents
Form
codex
Physical extent
ff. 319; ff. 207b-211aare blank
Hands
Arabic Script: Dīwānī. Latin Script: Italic Copperplate. Scribes unknown.
Acquisition
The Rawlinson bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1756.
Provenance
The collections of Richard Rawlinson, d. 1755.
Subject
Turkey--foreign relations
Turkey--Politics and government
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