Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of Professor V.L. Mélange 9781463233723

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Studies in Ottoman History in H o n o u r of Professor V.L. Mélange

Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies

A co-publication with The Isis Press, Istanbul, the series consists of collections of thematic essays focused on specific themes of Ottoman and Turkish studies. These scholarly volumes address important issues throughout Turkish history, offering in a single volume the accumulated insights of a single author over a career of research on the subject.

Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of Professor V.L. Mélange

Edited by

Colin Heywood Colin Imber

The Isis Press, Istanbul

prtSS 2011

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ISBN 978-1-61143-822-2

Reprinted from the 1994 Istanbul edition.

Printed in the United States of America

TO PROFESSOR V. L. MÉNAGE

ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY 15 APRIL 1995

THIS VOLUME OF STUDIES IS DEDICATED WITH RESPECT AND AFFECTION BY HIS FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS

CONTENT

Preface

IX

Bibliography of the Works of Professor V. L. Ménage (1956-1991) compiled by Colin Heywood

XI

Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont, Sur quelques pèlerins et réfugiés d'Asie Centrale dans l'Empire Ottoman

1

Nicoarä Beldiceanu et Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr, Considérations sur la chronologie des sources ottomanes et ses pièges

15

Géza Dävid, Ottoman Administrative Strategies in Western Hungary

31

Cornell H. Fleischer, Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal life in the Sixteenth Century

45

B. H. Flemming, The Sultan's Prayer Before Battle

63

Aldo Gallotta, Il «Gazavât-i Hayreddîn Paga » Pars Secunda e la Spedizione in Francia di Hayreddin Barbarossa (1543-1544) Colin Heywood, An Unsolved Murder in the Marmara (Notes on Bodl. MS. Turk. d. 32)

77 91

P. M. Holt, A Notable in an Age of Transition: Jänim Bey al-Hamzâm (d. 944/1538)

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107

Colin Imber, Canon and Apocrypha in Early Ottoman History

117

Halil înalcik, How to Read 'Âshtk Pasha-Zâde's History

139

Cemal Kafadar, cOsmän Beg and his Uncle: Murder in the Family ?

157

Machicl Kiel, Mevlana Negri and the Towns of Medieval Bulgaria

165

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CONTENT

î. Metin Kunt, The Waqf as an Instrument of Public Policy: Notes on the Köprülil Family Endowments

189

Rudi Paul Lindner, Beginning Ottoman History

199

Anthony Luttrell, Timur's Dominican Envoy

209

Irène Mélikoff, Qui était Sari Saltuk ? Quelques remarques sur les manuscrits du Saltukname

231

N. Oikonomides, Tzympe Affair

From Soldiers of Fortune to Gazi Warriors:

the 239

Stephen W. Reinen, A Byzantine Source on the Battles ofBileéa (?) and Kosovo Polje: Xydones' letters 396 and 398 Reconsidered

249

Michael Rogers, The Palace, Poisons and the Public, Some Lists of Drugs in mid-16th Centuiy Ottoman Turkey

273

Claudia Römer, On Some Hâss-Estates Pasa, Beglerbegi of Buda 1565-1566

297

Illegally Claimed by Arslan

Peter Sebastian, Ottoman Government Officials and their Relations with the Republic of Venice in the Early Sixteenth Century Nicolas Vatin, Deux îles à la dérive: Samos et Icaria entre 1475 et 1572 . Gilles Veinstein,