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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1617.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 1 Folder 5
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ahmed I, Sultan of the Turks, 1590-1617.
- Language:
- Italian
- Turkish
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (3 leaves)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 1 Folder 5
- Place of Publication:
- 1617.
- Language Note:
- In Italian.
- Summary:
- Request for cooperation with the Venetians against the "armata d'infidelli," i.e., pirates in the Mediterranean, perhaps involving the Spanish fleet.
- Notes:
- Incipit: Lettera di comandamento del gran signore al capitano general di mare, tradotta da Barnabo Bruni. All'honorato visir e consiglier mediator nelle cose del mondo prudentissimo diffensore delli negotii de gli huomeni chel sereno[?] Dio per sua divina grazia lo faccia stabile, e forze, nella sua grandezza mio visir e capitano Ali Bassa chel sereno[?] Dio conserui con felicita.
- Written in Constantinople or Venice[?], dated May 16, 1617.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement B, The Library Chronicle, 45 (1981), p. 20 (Ms. Italian 266).
- OCLC:
- 63585290
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