(Written under
Sulaimān
I.
Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire
Ital.
transl.
Carli, R.
Chronologia historica da Hagi Halife Mustafa. Venice. 1697.
(c) Geographical Works.
Ibn Baţūtah (ob. 1377). Ed. with French transl. Defrémery, C. and Sanguinetti, B. R.
Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah. 4 vols. Paris. 1853–9. 3rd edn. 1893. [Vol. 11,
pp. 255-353, gives travels in Asia Minor. ) Arabic text only. Cairo. A. H. 1287-8.
English transl. by Muhammed Hussein. The travels of Ibn Batuta. Lahore.
1898.
Shahāb-ad-Din (ob. 1348). Masāliku'l-abşār fi mamăliki'l amșār. Bibl. Nat. , Paris,
Arabic MSS. Slane's Catalogue. Nos. 2325–9. The part on Asia Minor transl.
in French, Quatremère, E. M. in Notices et extraits des MSS. XIII, i, pp. 151–
353.
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VOD.
“Ashiq (ob. 1600 [? ]). Manāziru'l-'avälim. Vienna MSS. Flügel's Catalogue. No.
1279.
Þājji Khalifah (Kātib Chelebi) (ob. 1658). Jihān numā. Constantinople. 1732.
French transl. of the part on Asia Minor by Reinaud in Vivien de St Martiu, L.
Histoire des découvertes géographiques. Vol. 111. p. 637. Paris. 1846. German
transl. of the part on Rumeli and Bosna by Hammer-Purgstall, J. von. Vienna.
1812.
Evliyā Efendi (ob. shortly after 1679). Siyāḥat Nāmah (Ta’rīkh-i sayyāḥ). In ten
books. MSS in the Beshir Agha and "Umumiye Library at Constantinople.
Published Constantinople. A. u. 1316-18. [Incomplete. Vols. 1-vı only. ) English
transl. Hammer-Purgstall, J. Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and
Africa by Evliya Efendi. 2 vols. London. 1846–50. [Incomplete. ]
(d) Biographical Works.
Sehi (ob. 1548). Hasht Bihisht. Ed. Muḥammad Shukri. Coustantinople. A. H. 1325.
Latīti (‘Abdu'l-lațif) (ob. 1582). Tazkiratu'sh-shu'arā. Constantinople. A. H. 1314.
German partial transl. Chabert, T. Latifi oder biographische Nachrichten von
türkischen Dichtern. Vienna and Zurich. 1800.
Țashkupri Zādah (ob. 1560). Shaqāiq an-nuímānīya. Turkish transl. , with additions,
by Mejdi (ob. circa 1590). Constantinople. A. H. 1269.
Hasan Chelebi (Qināli Zādah) (ob. 1603). Tazkiratu’sh-shu'arā. Brit. Mus. Addit.
MSS. No. 24,957. Vienna MSS. Flügel's Catalogue. No. 1228. Bibl. Nat. ,
Paris. No. 246. Munich MSS. Aumer's Catalogue. No. 147.
*Ashiq Chelebi (ob. 1571). Vienna MSS. Flügel's Catalogue. No. 1218. Munich
MSS. Aumer's Catalogue. No. 149. German partial transl. in Chabert, T.
Latifi, etc. See above.
'Oışmān Zādah Tāib Aḥmad (ob. 1723). Hadiqatu’l-vuzarā. (With, continuations. )
Constantinople. A. H. 1271 and A. H. 1283.
(e) Documents.
On the oldest Ottoman documents see Kraelitz, F. Osman. Urkunden in türkischer
Sprache. Vienna. 1922. No original document is known of this period; but
some copies of old decrees are published by Kraelitz, F. in Ta’rikh-i ‘oşmāni
enj. mejm. Vol. v. No. 28. 1915.
There are also the various “Qānūn-Nāmah” (Codes of Law) which consist of parts
of such decrees. The earliest, composed between 1453 and 1457, contains many
decrees of older date; it is published by Kraelitz, F. in Mitteilungen zur osman.
Geschichte. Vol. 1 (1921-2). pp. 13 ff. For the other “Qānūn-Nāmah" see
Kraelitz, F. ibid.
Oficial documents and letters are also to be found in the two following collections,
which, however, for this period, must be used with caution:
Ibrāhīm Beg el-Defterdār. Munsha’āt.
(Written under Sulaimān I. ) Vienna MSS.
Flügel's Catalogue. No. 310.
Aḥmad Nishānji, called Feridun Bey (ob. 1583). Munsha’āt-i salātin. Constantinople.
A. H. 1264–5. [The most important collection of Turkish state-papers. ]
B. WESTERN.
(a) General Histories.
Professor Bury, in his edition of Gibbon, at the end of the volumes gives very
valuable bibliographies on the subject matter.
Acropolites, Georgius. Chronicon Constantinopolitanum. (1203–61. ) Ed. Bekker, I.
CSHB. 1836. [Not of great value for Ottoman history. ]
Blemmydes, Nicephorus. Autobiography. Ed. Heisenberg, A. Leipsic. 1896.
Cantacuzene, John, Emperor. Historia. (1314-54. ) Ed. Schopen, L. 3 vols. CSHB.
1828-32.
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Chalcondyles, Laonicus. Historiae. (1298–1463. ) Gr. and Lat. texts. Ed. Bekker, I.
CSHB. 1843; and MPG. CLIX. 1866. French transl. Vigenère, B. de. Paris,
1577 and later edns. (Athenian in Turkish service. Fullest account of Turks. ]
Ducas. Historia Byzantina. (1341-1462. ) Ed. Bekker, 1. CSHB. 1834. [Detailed,
but inaccurate. ]
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and Bekker, l. 3 vols. CSHB. 1829-55.
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Valuable. )
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[Grand Logothete, eye-witness, valuable, Turcophobe. ]
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Cantemir, D. See below, III B (i).
Chalcondyles. See above, i B (a).
Ducas. See above, II B (a).
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Leonard, Archbishop of Chios. Historia Constantinopolitanae urbis. . . captae. MPG.
CLIX. Also ed. Sreznevski, I. I. in Povesť o Tsaregradê. St Petersburg. 1855.
Ital. transl. in Sansovino. See below, III B (i).
Phrantzes. See above, II B (a).
[These authors, contemporaries of the siege except Cantemir and Chalcondyles,
were eye-witnesses of much which they relate, but were either Latins, or favoured the
Union of the two Churches. ]
(ii) Unknown to Gibbon.
Barbaro, Nicolò. Giornale dell'Assedio di Constantinopoli. Ed. Cornet, E. Vienna.
1856. Ed. Dethier, P. A. In Mon. Hungariae hist. Vol. xxII. Pt. 1. See Gen.
Bibl. iv.
[This diary of an eye-witness, revised later, carries conviction of its
truthfulness.
Critobulus of Imbros. Life of Mahomet II. Ed. Müller, C. In Fragmenta histori-
corum graecorum. Vol. v. p. 40. See Gen. Bibl. Iv. Ed. Dethier, P. A.
In Mon. Hungariae hist. Vol. xxi. Pt. 1. See Gen. Bibl. iv. (Critobulus was
Archon of the Island of Imbros under Mahomet II. His history covers the first
seventeen years of Mahomet's reign. As he belonged to the Greek as opposed to
the Romanising party he is free from the bias of the authors known to Gibbon. ]
Pusculus, Ubertinus, of Brescia. Constantinopoleos Libri iv. Ed. Ellissen, A.
In Analekten der mittel- und neugriechischen Literatur. Vol. 11. Leipsic.
1857. Ed. Dethier, P. A. In Mon. Hungariae hist. Vol. xxII. Pt. 1. See Gen.
Bibl. iv. [Poem by eye-witness. ]
Tedaldi, J. Account of the Siege in two versions. (1) Ed. Vallet de Viriville. _In
Chronique de Charles VII by Jean Chartier. Vol. 1. Paris. 1858.
Chronologia historica da Hagi Halife Mustafa. Venice. 1697.
(c) Geographical Works.
Ibn Baţūtah (ob. 1377). Ed. with French transl. Defrémery, C. and Sanguinetti, B. R.
Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah. 4 vols. Paris. 1853–9. 3rd edn. 1893. [Vol. 11,
pp. 255-353, gives travels in Asia Minor. ) Arabic text only. Cairo. A. H. 1287-8.
English transl. by Muhammed Hussein. The travels of Ibn Batuta. Lahore.
1898.
Shahāb-ad-Din (ob. 1348). Masāliku'l-abşār fi mamăliki'l amșār. Bibl. Nat. , Paris,
Arabic MSS. Slane's Catalogue. Nos. 2325–9. The part on Asia Minor transl.
in French, Quatremère, E. M. in Notices et extraits des MSS. XIII, i, pp. 151–
353.
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VOD.
“Ashiq (ob. 1600 [? ]). Manāziru'l-'avälim. Vienna MSS. Flügel's Catalogue. No.
1279.
Þājji Khalifah (Kātib Chelebi) (ob. 1658). Jihān numā. Constantinople. 1732.
French transl. of the part on Asia Minor by Reinaud in Vivien de St Martiu, L.
Histoire des découvertes géographiques. Vol. 111. p. 637. Paris. 1846. German
transl. of the part on Rumeli and Bosna by Hammer-Purgstall, J. von. Vienna.
1812.
Evliyā Efendi (ob. shortly after 1679). Siyāḥat Nāmah (Ta’rīkh-i sayyāḥ). In ten
books. MSS in the Beshir Agha and "Umumiye Library at Constantinople.
Published Constantinople. A. u. 1316-18. [Incomplete. Vols. 1-vı only. ) English
transl. Hammer-Purgstall, J. Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and
Africa by Evliya Efendi. 2 vols. London. 1846–50. [Incomplete. ]
(d) Biographical Works.
Sehi (ob. 1548). Hasht Bihisht. Ed. Muḥammad Shukri. Coustantinople. A. H. 1325.
Latīti (‘Abdu'l-lațif) (ob. 1582). Tazkiratu'sh-shu'arā. Constantinople. A. H. 1314.
German partial transl. Chabert, T. Latifi oder biographische Nachrichten von
türkischen Dichtern. Vienna and Zurich. 1800.
Țashkupri Zādah (ob. 1560). Shaqāiq an-nuímānīya. Turkish transl. , with additions,
by Mejdi (ob. circa 1590). Constantinople. A. H. 1269.
Hasan Chelebi (Qināli Zādah) (ob. 1603). Tazkiratu’sh-shu'arā. Brit. Mus. Addit.
MSS. No. 24,957. Vienna MSS. Flügel's Catalogue. No. 1228. Bibl. Nat. ,
Paris. No. 246. Munich MSS. Aumer's Catalogue. No. 147.
*Ashiq Chelebi (ob. 1571). Vienna MSS. Flügel's Catalogue. No. 1218. Munich
MSS. Aumer's Catalogue. No. 149. German partial transl. in Chabert, T.
Latifi, etc. See above.
'Oışmān Zādah Tāib Aḥmad (ob. 1723). Hadiqatu’l-vuzarā. (With, continuations. )
Constantinople. A. H. 1271 and A. H. 1283.
(e) Documents.
On the oldest Ottoman documents see Kraelitz, F. Osman. Urkunden in türkischer
Sprache. Vienna. 1922. No original document is known of this period; but
some copies of old decrees are published by Kraelitz, F. in Ta’rikh-i ‘oşmāni
enj. mejm. Vol. v. No. 28. 1915.
There are also the various “Qānūn-Nāmah” (Codes of Law) which consist of parts
of such decrees. The earliest, composed between 1453 and 1457, contains many
decrees of older date; it is published by Kraelitz, F. in Mitteilungen zur osman.
Geschichte. Vol. 1 (1921-2). pp. 13 ff. For the other “Qānūn-Nāmah" see
Kraelitz, F. ibid.
Oficial documents and letters are also to be found in the two following collections,
which, however, for this period, must be used with caution:
Ibrāhīm Beg el-Defterdār. Munsha’āt.
(Written under Sulaimān I. ) Vienna MSS.
Flügel's Catalogue. No. 310.
Aḥmad Nishānji, called Feridun Bey (ob. 1583). Munsha’āt-i salātin. Constantinople.
A. H. 1264–5. [The most important collection of Turkish state-papers. ]
B. WESTERN.
(a) General Histories.
Professor Bury, in his edition of Gibbon, at the end of the volumes gives very
valuable bibliographies on the subject matter.
Acropolites, Georgius. Chronicon Constantinopolitanum. (1203–61. ) Ed. Bekker, I.
CSHB. 1836. [Not of great value for Ottoman history. ]
Blemmydes, Nicephorus. Autobiography. Ed. Heisenberg, A. Leipsic. 1896.
Cantacuzene, John, Emperor. Historia. (1314-54. ) Ed. Schopen, L. 3 vols. CSHB.
1828-32.
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Bibliography, Chapter XXI
887
Chalcondyles, Laonicus. Historiae. (1298–1463. ) Gr. and Lat. texts. Ed. Bekker, I.
CSHB. 1843; and MPG. CLIX. 1866. French transl. Vigenère, B. de. Paris,
1577 and later edns. (Athenian in Turkish service. Fullest account of Turks. ]
Ducas. Historia Byzantina. (1341-1462. ) Ed. Bekker, 1. CSHB. 1834. [Detailed,
but inaccurate. ]
Gregoras, Nicephorus. Historia Romana (Byzantina). (1203-1359. ) Ed. Schopen, L.
and Bekker, l. 3 vols. CSHB. 1829-55.
Pachymeres, Georgius. Historia. (1255–1308. ) Ed. Bekker, I. CSHB. 1835.
Valuable. )
Phrantzes, Georgius. Chronicon. (1258–1476. ) Ed. Bekker, I. CSHB. 1838.
[Grand Logothete, eye-witness, valuable, Turcophobe. ]
(6) Sources for capture of Constantinople.
(i) Known to Gibbon.
Cantemir, D. See below, III B (i).
Chalcondyles. See above, i B (a).
Ducas. See above, II B (a).
Isidore, Cardinal. De capta Constantinopoli. MPG. CLIX.
Leonard, Archbishop of Chios. Historia Constantinopolitanae urbis. . . captae. MPG.
CLIX. Also ed. Sreznevski, I. I. in Povesť o Tsaregradê. St Petersburg. 1855.
Ital. transl. in Sansovino. See below, III B (i).
Phrantzes. See above, II B (a).
[These authors, contemporaries of the siege except Cantemir and Chalcondyles,
were eye-witnesses of much which they relate, but were either Latins, or favoured the
Union of the two Churches. ]
(ii) Unknown to Gibbon.
Barbaro, Nicolò. Giornale dell'Assedio di Constantinopoli. Ed. Cornet, E. Vienna.
1856. Ed. Dethier, P. A. In Mon. Hungariae hist. Vol. xxII. Pt. 1. See Gen.
Bibl. iv.
[This diary of an eye-witness, revised later, carries conviction of its
truthfulness.
Critobulus of Imbros. Life of Mahomet II. Ed. Müller, C. In Fragmenta histori-
corum graecorum. Vol. v. p. 40. See Gen. Bibl. Iv. Ed. Dethier, P. A.
In Mon. Hungariae hist. Vol. xxi. Pt. 1. See Gen. Bibl. iv. (Critobulus was
Archon of the Island of Imbros under Mahomet II. His history covers the first
seventeen years of Mahomet's reign. As he belonged to the Greek as opposed to
the Romanising party he is free from the bias of the authors known to Gibbon. ]
Pusculus, Ubertinus, of Brescia. Constantinopoleos Libri iv. Ed. Ellissen, A.
In Analekten der mittel- und neugriechischen Literatur. Vol. 11. Leipsic.
1857. Ed. Dethier, P. A. In Mon. Hungariae hist. Vol. xxII. Pt. 1. See Gen.
Bibl. iv. [Poem by eye-witness. ]
Tedaldi, J. Account of the Siege in two versions. (1) Ed. Vallet de Viriville. _In
Chronique de Charles VII by Jean Chartier. Vol. 1. Paris. 1858.
