- Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 47b.
- De Tournefort, Voyage, 28; Necipoğlu, The Age of Sinan, 67.
- Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :352, 354.
- Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 25.
- IŞS 1 0, fol. 1 56b, May 9, 1662. For the purchase of the land, see IŞS 9, fol. 96b,
August 1 7, 1661. Loss of the lands: IŞS 1 0, fol. 86a, June 3, 1 662, and IŞS 1 0, fols. 82b,
84b–85a, June 2, 1 662. Property being awarded in lieu of seized property: entries for the
week of June 2–9, 1 662, in IŞS 1 0, fols. 82a–86b, 88a–89b. - IŞS 9, fol. 95a, June 22, 1 662.
- IŞS 9, fol. 82b, June 2, 1 662.
- The chronogram for his death was “Köprülü stepped onto the bridge [köprü] of
the kingdom of non-existence.” Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 1 88b. - Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 262. His short-sightedness
“caused him to knit his brows and pore very intently when any strange person entered
his presence.” Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 58a; Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi,
11 7; Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, MS. Revan 1 307,
fols. 3a–b. - Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 78 1 a.
- IŞS 9, fols. 83b–96b, 1 42a– 1 57a, 247a–253a; IŞS 1 0, fols. 82a–95a, 1 56b. For
the number of churches, see EI^2 , s.v. “Istanbul,” by Halil Inalcik; Eremya Çelebi, İstanbul
Tarihi; Mantran, Istanbul, 5 1 , 54–55.
81. Inalcik, “Ottoman Galata,” 275–99, 349–50.
- See Mantran, Istanbul, 56 1 –62; Eremya Çelebi, İstanbul Tarihi, 223–26. The
fi ve churches are French Capuchin Saint George, which had formerly been Byzantine
and then Genoese (IŞS 9, fol. 96b, August 1 7, 1661 ); Italian Saint Francis (San Franc-
esco), Saint Anne (Santa Anna), and a bell tower (IŞS 9, fol. 247a, January 3, 1 662); San
Sebastian (IŞS 9, fol. 96b, August 1 7, 1661 ); and originally Genoese Dominican Saints
Peter and Paul (Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo; IŞS 9, fol. 96a, August 1 7, 1661 ), which
became a French church at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
- IŞS 9, fols. 96a–b, August 1 7, 1661.
- IŞS 1 0, fol. 247a, January 3, 1 662. Among the men are Giovanni son of Carlo,
Nicola son of Franco, Francesco son of Giovanni, and Domenico son of Giovanni. - Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 1 95–96.
- IŞS 1 0, fol. 1 56b, May 9, 1662.
- Under the guise of repairing the roof of the Church of the Nativity in Bethle-
hem a decade later, for which they had acquired permission, Orthodox Christians “re-
built a more splendid prayer hall than had ever existed since the Ottoman conquest.”
Oded Peri, Christianity under Islam in Jerusalem: The Question of the Holy Sites in Early
Ottoman Times (Boston: Brill, 200 1 ), 94. - Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fols. 6a–b, 7a–b, 1 7b.
- Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :276, 282.
- Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, 6b.
9 1. Minkarizade Yahya b. Ömer, Fetāvā-i Minkarizade Efendi, Suleimaniye Library,
MS. Hamidiye 6 1 0, fols. 37a–b.
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