Studies in Ottoman History: In Honor of Professor V. L. Ménage

Contents 7 Preface 9 Bibliography of the Works of Professor V. L. Ménage (1956-1991) 11 Sur quelques pèlerins et réfugiés d'Asie Centrale dans l'Empire Ottoman 21 Considérations sur la chronologie des sources ottomanes et ses pièges 35 Ottoman Administrative Strategies in Western Hungary 51 Between the Lines: Realities of Scribal life in the Sixteenth Century 65 The Sultan's Prayer Before Battle 83 Il “Gazavat-i Hayreddin Pasa” Pars Secunda e la Spedizione in Francia di Hayreddin Barbarossa (1543-1544) 97 An Unsolved Murder in the Marmara (Notes on Bodl. MS. Turk. d. 32) 111 A Notable in an Age of Transition: Jânim Bey al-Hamzàwi (d. 944/1538) 127 Canon and Apocrypha in Early Ottoman History 137 How to Read 'Äshtk Pasha-Zäde 's History 159 'Osmân Beg and his Uncle: Murder in the Family? 177 Mevlana Ne§ii and the Towns of Medieval Bulgaria 185 The Waqf as an Instrument of Public Policy: Notes on the KöpriilU Family Endowments 209 Beginning Ottoman History 219 Timur's Dominican Envoy 229 Qui était Sari Saltuk? Queques remarques sur les manuscrits du Saltukname 251 From Soldiers of Fortune to Gazi Warriors: the Tzympe Affair 259 A Byzantine Source on the Battles ofBileéa (?) and Kosovo Polje: Kydones ' letters 396 and 398 Reconsidered 269 The Palace, Poisons and the Public. Some Lists of Drugs in mid- 16th Century Ottoman Turkey 293 On Some Hâss-Estates Illegally Claimed by Arslan Pasa, Beglerbegi of Buda 1565-1566 317 Ottoman Government Officials and their Relations with the Republic of Venice in the Early Sixteenth Century 339 Deux îles à la dérive: Samos et Icaria entre 1475 et 1572 359 A propos des ehl-i hiref et du devfirme 371 Fatih: une région d'Istanbul aux XVe et XVIe siècles 389 The Worrisome Wealth of the Celnik Radić 403