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1 308, fols. 50b, 4a, 4a–b, 5b. Mehmed IV took on the Venetians soon after deciding to
wage war on the Habsburgs. Subsequent references to this source are cited parentheti-
cally in the immediately following paragraphs. - Christine Woodhead, Ta‘lîkî-zâde’s şehnâme-i hümâyûn: A History of the Otto-
man Campaigns into Hungary, 1593–4 Islamkundliche Untersuchungen. Bd. 82 (Berlin:
K. Schwarz, 1 983), 27.
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exact and compleat Account of the SIEGE thereof: Began by the Ottoman Emperour on the
16th of July, 1683, and Continued until the 12th of September following; at which time the
Siege was Rais’d, and a Total Defeat given to the Turkish Army, by the Christians (London:
Printed for Randolph Taylor, 1 683).
44. Anonymous, “Mahomet Istivs Nominis IIII Tvrcarvm et Totivs Orientis Imper-
ator Infestissimvs Christianæ Religionis Hostis,” Österreichische Nationalbibliothek,
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45. Vani Mehmed Efendi, Münşe‘at Vani Efendi, Suleimaniye Library, MS. Hagia
Sophia 4308, fols. 1 b– 1 5a. Subsequent references to this source are cited parenthetically
in the immediately following paragraphs.
46. The work, Cevahir et-Tarih, is also referred to as The History of the Conquest of
the Citadel of Candia (Tarih-i Feth-i Kale-i Kandiye).
47. Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fols. 1 b–2a. Subsequent references to this work
are cited parenthetically in the immediately following paragraphs.
48. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 783a.
49. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :393.
50. “Osmanlı Kanûnnâmeleri,” 500; Osmanlılarda Narh Müessesesi, 360.
51. Vani Mehmed Efendi, Münşe‘at, fols. 1 6b–28a. See Molly Greene, A Shared
World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton, NJ: Prince-
ton University Press, 2000), 1 3–44.
- Vani Mehmed Efendi, Münşe‘at, fol. 1 6b.
- Ibid., fols. 27b–28a, 28b.
- Ibid., fol. 1 6b.
- Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fol. 11 0b.
- Ibid., fols. 1 35b– 1 36a.
- Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 24.
- Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fols. 1 49b– 1 50a.
- Ibid., fol. 1 50a.
- Ibid., fol. 1 53b.
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