M. Baudier, _The History of the Imperial Estate of the Grand Seigneurs_ (1635, _trans._ by Grimeston), p. 171. Parga, a village on the coast of Greece, opposite Corfu, under Venetian domination in the sixteenth century. [8] He himself told the embassador Zara in 1532 that he was born the same week as Suleiman. _Cf._ _Urkunden und Actenstücke zur Geschichte der Verhältnisse zwischen Oesterreich, Ungarn, und der Pforte im XVI und XVII Jahrhunderte_. Aus Archiven und Bibliotheken, Anton von Gévay (Wien, 1840). [9] _Ibid._, also Pietro Zen, _op. cit._ [10] “Suonava a perfezione il violino.” Albèri, III, 3, p. 95, Pietro Zen. [11] Baudier tells the latter story, Pietro Zen the former. Guillaume Postel (Poitiers, 1560) gives a slightly different version. He says that Ibrahim was captured for a soldier in Selim’s reign and sold to Iskender Chelebi, the treasurer of Anatolia. This is interesting in view of his later relations with Iskender, but is not sustained by other witnesses. [12] Albèri, _op. cit._, p. 116, Marco Minio. [13] _Ibid._, p. 97. Also Sanuto, vol. xli, p. 527, Piero Bragadino. [14] S. A. S. Demetrius Cantimir, Prince de Moldavie, _Histoire de l’Empire Othoman_ (1743, tr. by de Joncquières), vol. ii, p. 289. [15] Von Hammer, _Histoire de l’Empire Ottomane_, tr. by J. J. Hellert (Paris, 1836), vol. v, note 23, p. 45. [16] Baudier, _op. cit._, p. 172. [17] _Cf._ M. de Mourajea D’Ohsson, _Tableau Général de l’Empire Ottomane_ (1787), vol. iii, _passim_. [18] Sanuto, _op. cit._, vol. xli, Pietro Bragadino. [19] The word _Serai_ will be used in these pages in the Turkish sense of palace and will refer to a royal palace. [20] Sanuto, _op. cit._, vol. xli, p. 527, Pietro Bragadino. [21] Albèri, III, I, p. 28. [22] Petchevi, Chelebizadeh, Solakzadeh, Abdurrahman Sheref, etc. [23] For instance, the vials of water blessed by the immersion of one end of the mantle of the Prophet, which the sultan ordered distributed to the nobles of the state on the 15th of the month of Ramazan. [24] _Caftan_, a long, loose‐sleeved cloak or robe. [25] D’Ohsson, _op. cit._, vol. iii, p. 303 [26] Albèri, III, ii, p. 31. [27] D’Ohsson, _op. cit._, vol. iii, p. 315. [28] George Young, _Corps de Droit Ottoman_ (1905), vol. ii, p. 166; also D’Ohsson, _op. cit._, vol. iii, p. 133. [29] “Nach muslimischem Gesetz ist Sklave derjenige welche im Kriege gefangen genommen oder mit Gewalt aus feindlichem Lande fortgeführt worden ist, wenn er zur Zeit seiner Gefangennahme ein Ungläubiger war.” Robert Roberts, _Familien, Sklaven, und Erbenrecht im Koran_, p. 42. (Leipzig, 1908.) [30] D’Ohsson, _op. cit._, vol. iii, p. 35. [31] “And when ye meet those who misbelieve, then strike off their heads until ye have massacred them, and bind fast the bonds.” “Then either a free agent (liberty) or a ransom until the war shall have laid down its burdens.” _Koran_ (Palmer’s translation, vol. ix, of _Sacred Books of the East_), Surah, XLVII, vs. 4–5.