Historiography of Ottoman Europe

Short history of all the Turkish Emperors

Translated Title

Istorie aliasă pre scurt... întru caré să arată toți împărații turcești... (Romanian)

Person

Andronic (monk)
Scribe

Publication Type

Codex History of the Ottoman Emperors

Language

Romanian

Date

1687

Description

Short biographies of the Ottoman sultans, from Osman I to Mehmed IV (1648-1687). The compilation, written in Romanian and based on Greek and Slavonic sources, is anonymous, but N. Iorga believed it might belong to spătar Nicolae “Milescu”. The text was copied in August 1687 by monk Andronic of the Moldavian Cașin monastery.

Library

• Library of the Romanian Academy (Biblioteca Academiei Române) | BAR ms. rom. 3252, ff. 1-45

Other Version

• Încă două povestiri istorice românești

Secondary Literature

• Catalogul manuscriselor românești B.A.R. 3101-4413 - pp. 62-63
• Contribution aux débuts des études de turcologie en Roumanie, XVIe -XVIIIe siècles
• The Rise of Non-Muslim Historiography in the Eighteenth Century

Notes

The manuscript also includes The worst danger and the fall of the Transylvanian army [“Primejdiia cea rea și cădéria oștei Țărâi Ardealului”]

Keywords

Biography , Ottoman sultans , Osman I , Mehmed IV , Nicolae “Milescu” , monk Andronic

Geographic Keywords

Moldavia, Cașin monastery

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