Le testament de amyra sulthan Nichhemedy en son temps empereur des turcs. - Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483; Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503; Plantagenet, Cecily, 1469-1507; Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961; Sotheby's (Firm); Bernard Quaritch (Firm); Princeton University. Library ([Bruges, Belgium])
French translation of an anonymous Italian letter (12 September 1481) addressed to someone named Jehan (Giovanni), concerning the death and funeral of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Mehmed II, "the Conqueror"; and the civil war faced by his successor Bayezid II against his brother Jem.
Incipit: "Jehan treschier amy. Je pour la consalacion avant tous autres entendent la verite en ce petit livre dispose et en auise ton excellente et tresaymee fraternite que du moys dauril derrain passe vindrent ambassadeurs de assirye de la cite de halap en latin appellee Alleppo ..."
Explicit: "O tres chier Jehan vous estes advise de tout ce que en ce temps est fait et advenu pardeca lautre suruenant dieu deuant aurez ains nos autres. In christo feliciterque valere Amen. Ex constantinopoli XIIa mensis septembris 1481. Cy fine le testament de amyra sulthan Nichhemedy en son temps empereur des turcs."
Ms. codex.
Middle French
Title from explicit (fol. 23r).
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii (labeled ii-iv) + 26 ; catchwords (fol. 7v and 15v) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Keywords: Mehmed -- II, -- Sultan of the Turks, -- 1432-1481 -- Death and burial -- Early works to 1800.; Bayezid -- II, -- Sultan of the Turks, -- 1447 or 1448-1512 -- Early works to 1800.; Cem, -- Prince, son of Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, -- 1459-1495 -- Early works to 1800.; Turkey -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Turkey -- History -- 1288-1453 -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, French -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Empire ottoman -- Histoire -- 1288-1453 -- Ouvrages avant 1800.; Manuscrits français -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Cem, -- Prince, son of Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, -- 1459-1495; Mehmed -- II, -- Sultan of the Turks, -- 1432-1481; Death and burial of a person; Kings and rulers; Manuscripts, French; Belgium -- Bruges; New Jersey -- Princeton; Turkey; Ingilby family; 1288-1453; Early works; History; illuminated manuscripts; decorated initials; illuminations (paintings); Blind tooled bindings; Wooden boards; manuscripts (documents)