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Dr. Covel's Notes on Galata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

F. W. Hasluck
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Dr. Covel was chaplain to the Embassy at Constantinople from 1669 to 1677. Of his copious and interesting Journals, a portion, relating chiefly to his voyage and to political affairs at Constantinople, has been edited, with a portrait and biographical notice, by J. T. Bent, and published by the Hakluyt Society in 1893. The Journals were, in part at least, intended for publication, for Grelot refers to an expected work of Covel's on the walls of Constantinople; the notes on Galata are more detailed than those of most contemporary writers, and, though they are in Covel's handwriting, are possibly borrowed; it is not his habit to write in Latin, and the reference to the tomb of the Comte d'Artois as still in possession of the monks, perhaps points to a slightly earlier original.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 11 , November 1905 , pp. 50 - 62
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1905

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References

page 50 note 1 P. 75.

page 50 note 2 P. Gyllius de Top. Cp. x.–xi.; Nic. de Nicolay, p. 69; Thos. Smith (in Ray's, Colln. of Voyages ii. 39Google Scholar; Tournefort, letter 12.

page 50 note 3 Photographs and plans of the Han Franchini, formerly the Podestà's palace, are given by de Beylié in l' Habitation Byzantine' Supp. Pl. X and p. 15.

page 51 note 1 ‘Das Thor der Rüderer’: Kurek = (1) oar, (2) skin: cf. Covels' ‘Pellis porta’ and ‘Furriers’ Gate' in his map (folio MS. f. 78).

page 52 note 1 (Türkisches Tagebuch, pp. 62, 83, 167, 470.)

page 52 note 2 Giornale Ligustico di Archeologia, 1874, 137–80: 1876, 217–74.

page 52 note 3 Cons'ple, Lorentz and Keil, 1889. The original is evidently the basis of the maps of Furlan (Venice 1567), Braun and Hogenberg (Civv. Orbis Terrarum, 1577–8) and Ballino (Città e Fortezze, 1569–79), etc., and to a certain extent that of Seutter, (Rev. de l' Art Chrétienne, 1891, Pll. III.Google Scholar, IV.). Grelot's view of Constantinople also gives a good idea of Galata in the seventeenth century.

page 54 note 1 See below, p. 60.

page 57 note 1 ‘haec insignia extra Coula Capi: sed inscriptio obscurior quam quod opāe pretiū sit describere’ (Covel).

page 57 note 2 Pagano, Delle Impresse e del Dominio dei Genevesi in Grecia, p. 237.

page 57 note 3 Myrleae (Cov.)

page 57 note 4 Credo Cardinalis (Cov.)

page 58 note 1 Cp. Xt. IV. xlii. 123. See also Bullialdus in Ducae cap. xiii. p. 559 B, who saw the stone in 1647.

page 58 note 2 Estancelin, , Hist. des Comtes d' Eu, 1828, p. 407.Google Scholar Froissart (ed. Buchon xiv. p. 43) says he died at Haute Loge (Alto Luogo = Ephesus?), Ste Marthe (Généal. de la Maison de France, p. 360) that he died at Brusa. We know from Froissart and Boucicault (ch. 27) that the captives of Nicopolis were assembled at Brusa during the negotiations, and Mihallitch lies on the way thither; the Comte d'Artois may have died on the road. Froissart says that en venant et en amenant jusques là les barons turcs qui guides et gardes en étaient leur firent moult de peine et les battirent et travaillèrent assez.

page 60 note 1 There would therefore appear to be no connexion with the Brabantine family of Merode, though there were several Philips in it about this date (see E. Richardson, Geschichte der Fam. Merode).

page 61 note 1 Trans: Odessa Soc. vii. 276 (1 owe the reference to Mr. E. H. Minns).

page 62 note 1 See Atti Soc: Lig: x. p. 500.