STUDIES IN

OTTOMAN HISTORY
.
IN HONOUR OF
PROFESSOR
,
V. L. MENAGE

Edited by
Colin HEYWOOD and Colin IMBER

The Isis Press

Istanbul
©The Isis Press

Published by
The Isis Press
~emsibey Sokak l 0
Beylerbeyi, 81210 Istanbul

ISBN 975-428-063-0

First published 1994

 TO
PROFESSOR V. L. MENAGE

ON THE OCCASION OF
HIS SEVENTY-FIFfHBIRTHDAY
15 APRIL 1995

THIS VOLUME OF STUDIES

IS DEDICATED
WITH RESPECT AND AFFECTION
BY HIS FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES
AND STUDENTS
 CONTENT

Preface .... ................................................................................... IX

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Bibliography of the Works of Professor V. L. Menage (1956-1991)

compiled by Colin Heywood ..... ...... ~... ..... ..... .... ........... ...... ...... XI

Jean-Louis Bacque-Grammont, Sur quelques pelerins et refugies d 'Asie

Centrale dans /'Empire Ottoman .. ..................... ........ .......... ....... .

Nicoar~ Beldiceanu et Irene Beldiceanu-Steinherr, Considerations sur la,

chronologie des sources ottomanes et ses pieges ... ....... ................. 15

Geza David, 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, ll «Gazavat-i !Jayreddtn

Pa~a ~ Pars Secunda e la
Spedizione in Francia di !Jayreddin Barbarossa ( 1543 -1544) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Colin Heywood, An Unsolved Murder in the Marmara (Notes on Bodi.

MS. Turk. d. 32).................. ............. ...................................... 91

P. M. Holt, A Notable in an Age of Transition: Janim Bey al-l:lamzawi

(d. 94411538)... ....................................................................... 107

Colin Imber, Canon and Apocrypha in Early Ottoman History.... .......... 117

Halil 1nalc1k, How to Read 'Ashik Pasha-Ziuie's History ........ ... ........... 139

Cemal Kafadar, 'O~man Beg and his Uncle: Murder in the Family? .. . .. . . . 157

Machiel Kfo!, Mevlana Nqri and the Towns ofMedieval Bulgaria .... .. . . 165
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1. Metin Kunt, The Waqf as an Instrument of Public Policy: Notes on

the Kopriilii Family Endowments... ............................................ 189

Rudi Paul Lindner, Beginning Ottoman History................................. 199

Anthony Luttrell, TimJ4r's Dominican Envoy . . . ... . .. . .... . .. .. . . . .. . .. ... . ... .. 209

lrenc Melikoff, Qui etait San Saltuk. ? Quelques remarques sur les
manuscrits du Saltukname ......................................................... 231

N. Oikonomides, From Soldiers of Fortune to Gazi Warriors: the

Tzympe Affair ....... ~ . ... ..... . ... ...... .. .... . .. .. ..... ..... ... .. ... ................ 239

Stephen W. Reinert, A Byzantine Source on the Battles of Bileta ( ?) and

Kosovo Polje: Kydones' letters 396 and 398 Reconsidered ... ..... ...... . 249

Michael Rogers, The Palace, Poisons and the Public. Some Lists of
Drugs in mid- I 6th Century Ottoman Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. . . . . 273

Claudia Romer, On Some !Jan-Estates Illegally Claimed by Arslan

Paia, Beglerbegi of Buda 1565-1566 .. . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. . .. . . . 297

Peter Sebastian, Ottoman Government Offici1J.ls and their Relations with

the Republic of Venice in the Early Sixteenth Century . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 319

a
Nicolas Varin, Deux lies la di rive: Samos et /caria entre I 475 et 1572 . 339

Gilles Veinstein, Apropos des ehl-i fliref et du deviirme ....... ......... .. ... 351

Stephane Yerasimos, Fatih: une region d'lstanbul aux xve et xv1e

siecks .... ..... ... .. .. ..... ..... ..... ... .. .... ... ... .. .................... .... ...... ' .... 369

Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, The Worrisome Wealth of the Celnik Radie ..... 383