Fictional Marriage Proposal of Anonymous Astrakhan Khan by Roman Hautala

“…As an illustration of this genre, the author of this article presents a “letter” of the Turkish sultan to the Tatars and their “response” from the fictional collection of “Letters of the Great Turk” [1, fol. 18r] of Laudivius Hierosolymitanus, which was a relatively widespread in Europe in the last quarter of the 15th century, republished 18 times in different cities of Western Europe according to Incunabula Short Title Catalogue of the British Library (http://istc.bl.uk/search/search.html) as well as published in Italian translation in 1563 by Lodovico Dolce…”
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