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from the origins of the empire through the seventeenth century.
Penzer, N. M. The Harem: An Account of the Institution as It Existed in the Palace of the
Turkish Sultans, with a History of the Grand Seraglio from Its Foundations to Mod-
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Notes
. Quoted in Firpo, Relazioni di ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 73 (my translation).
. See, for example, Moore-Harell, “Economic and Political Aspects of the Slave Trade in
Ethiopia and the Sudan,” 410.
. Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile,3:91, 416.
. Al-Jabarti, Al-Jabartī’s History of Egypt, 1:648.
. Mustafa Ali, Mustafa Ali’s Description of Cairo, 81–82.
. Dervish Abdullah, “Risâle-i Teberdâriye,” fol. 79b (my translation).
. Ibid., fols. 61a–62b.
. Ali, “RâfiɆüɆl-gubûş fī fezâɆiliɆl-Hubûş,” fol. 27a (my translation). See also Tezcan,
“Dispelling the Darkness.”
. Fet vacı, Picturing History at the Ottoman Court, 86, 153–157.
. Petrosyan, Pages of Perfection, 284.
. Atıl, Levni and the Surname.
. Resmi, HamîletüɆl-küberâ, 63 (my translation).
. Levni, Surname-i vehbi.
. Silahdar Fındıklılı Mehmed Ağa, Sîlâhdâr târîhi, 2:307 (my translation).
. Naima, Târîh-i Naɇîmâ, 4:1640 (my translation).
. Pedani, “Safiye’s Household and Venetian Diplomacy,” 14–17, 19–23, 25–27.
. Ok, Harem dünyası, 70–72.
. Jia Yinghua, quoted in Faison, “The Death of the Last Emperor’s Last Eunuch.”