The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Item Information

Alcoran Of Mahomet, preface: a translation of the command of the grand Seignior concerning Mr. Malezair
Alcoran Of Mahomet, preface: a translation of the command of the grand Seignior concerning Mr. Malezair

Dublin Core

Title

Alcoran Of Mahomet, preface: a translation of the command of the grand Seignior concerning Mr. Malezair

Subject

France Foreign relations Turkey
Du Ryer, André, approximately 1580-approximately 1660

Description

safe conduct for André du Ryer, translator at the French mission in Istanbul and ambassador extraordinary of the Ottoman sultan Murad IV (r. 1623-1640), dated 30 Dhū al-Ḥijja 1041 / 17 July 1632

images taken from book which is one of three copies in Burke Library

Creator

Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1612-1640

Publisher

s.n.

Date

1649

Contributor

Du Ryer, André, approximately 1580-approximately 1660
Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654

Language

eng
ota

Identifier

CLIO id: 4541917

Additional Item Metadata

Spatial Coverage

Ottoman Empire
France

Temporal Coverage

1632

MODS

Key Date

1649

Type of Date

ex

Publication Place

London

Publication Date

1649

Place of Origin

Istanbul

Form/Genre

books

Repository Name

nnc-ut

Shelf Location

1649 M21

Notes

references:
the firman's French translation has been published in: A. Hamilton and F. Richard, André du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France, London, 2004, p. 132
H. Busse et al., "Farmān,” in: Encylopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., 2, 1965, pp. 803-896
B. Fragner, “Farmān,” in: Encyclopaedia Iranica 9/3, 1999, pp. 282-295
A. H. Groot, ”Murād IV,” in: Encylopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., 7, 1993, pp. 597-599
Gladys Frantz-Murphy, "Identity and Security in the Mediterranean World ca. AD 640- ca. AD 1517," in: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor 2007, Ann Arbor, Mich. 2010, pp. 253-264

Language of Cataloging

eng

Digital Origin

rd

Collection

McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

book

Physical Dimensions

20 x 15 cm

Citation

Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1612-1640, “Alcoran Of Mahomet, preface: a translation of the command of the grand Seignior concerning Mr. Malezair,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 23, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/quran/item/6170.

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