Kolodziejczyk Dariusz. The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania (ENG)

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[23] ölüm yetkince memleketingizden

çıqarmaġaysız taqı bizim aramuzda

qatnaşa turġan ėlçilerimizni bizde sizde ėki

[24] aydan artuq turġuzmay yahşılıq birle terk yiberelik aramuzda kişilerimiz

terk barışub kėlişseler ol

[25] yahşıdır taqı bizge aytġan yıl sayu yiberir on beş ming bölek lorini İleh

Libqa bu ėki yurtdan siz

[26] qarındaşımdan tilek ėtermüz imdiden song bir bolcalda yibergeysiz

sizing qızıl yumurtqa bayramıngızdan yeti haa

[27] song Pentekoşte bayramıngızda yibergeysiz taqı İleh yurtunguz üçün

bizden bir şartname tilete yiberibsiz

[28] biz de bu altun birle yazġan altun nişanlu şartnamemüzni ulu ėlçimiz

Evliya Mirza tėti İbrahim Biy birle sizing ėlçingiz

[29] pan Anikiy Qornastay birle İleh yurtunguz üçün sizge yiberdik İleh

yurtu Lipqa yurtu ėkiside bizge birdir her kim İleh

[30] yurtunung Lublin İlav Qamanic Podolya Mejibuj İhimelnik Latıçev

Zemqon

Buçaçı Bels Soqal Premısle ve Qolma

[31] İsqala taqı bulardan başqa kermenleringizge salalarıngızga barça sizge

sanlu ėlingizge memleketingizge kim düşman bolsa bizge de

[32] düşmandır her kim İleh yurtu birle Lipqa yurtuna bu ėki yurtqa

düşmanlıq saġınsa biz alarġa düşmanmuz taqı İleh yurtundan

[33] bizim ėlimizden sizing ėlingizge sizing ėlingizden bizim ėlimizge bazar-

gan barışub kėlişkey küc basınc körmegeyler

[34] yüz aqçada üc aqca tamġa berib andan başqa tamġa tartınaq bermegey-

ler aman kelib ėsen-aman kėtkeyler eger

[35] bizim oġullarımız sultanlardan taqı oġlanlar biylerden mirzalardan

qazaqlarımızdan barça bizge

[36] sanlu kişilerimizden küc basınc qılıb malların alsalar alıb berib tölegey-

miz bizim bazarganlerimizge da sizing

[37] ėlingizde memleketingizde küc basınc bolsa siz de bir eksüksüz tölegey-

siz imdi bu şartnamemizde yazılġan barça

[38] sözlerimiz üstüne çınlıq birle beng turar üçün men özüm Mehmed

Gėrey Han oġlum Bahadır Gėrey Sultan

[39] başlıġ barça oġlanlarım sultanlar taqı barça oġlanlar biyler mirzalar ve

içki daşqı barça nökerlerim sizge

[40] beng ant şart ėtermüz Tengrining adı üstüne taqı dinimizden taqı yüz

ming yigirmi tört ming peyġamberden

[41] taqı bizim peyġamberimiz Muhammad Mustafa hazretinden kim vallahi

ve billahi ve tallahi sizning birle arı çın köngülden dost qarındaşımuz

[42] bu şartname içinde yazılġan barça ėlingizge memleketingizge

şehirleringizge kermenleringizge salalarıngızga barça sizge

[43] sanlu ėlingizge kününgüzge barça kişileringizge bizden oġlan larımdan

oġlanlar biylerden mirzalardan

Strange orthography (نادﺰﻜﻨﻴﺗﺎﻛﻼﻤﻣ).

Corrupt; in A. written correctly as Zenkov (Зенъков).

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[44] içki daşqı nöker ėşimden qazaqlarımızdan barça bizge sanlu kişilerimizden

yamanlıq bolmaġay bu şartname sözimizden

[45] özge türlü bolmaġaymuz bu şartnamemüznüng çınlıġı üçün altunlı

şartname altun nişan basub

[46] yiberdik tarih-i toquz yüz yigirmi altıda mübarek Zi`l-qa‘de aynung

toquzuncı yekşenbe kün şehr-i mu‘azzam Ferahkermende bitildi

Mehmed Gėrey Han bin Mengli Gėrey Han

Translation:

He, the Exalter, the Helper!

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful!

By the strength of oneness [of God] and the miracles of Muhammad!

e great khan of the Great Horde, the padishah of the Kipchak Steppe and all

the Mongols, Muhammed

Giray Khan: my word:

[nişan] [outer frame] In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful!

ere is no god but God! Muhammad is the Prophet of God! e greatest sul-

tan and the most noble khaqan, [middle frame] Mehmed Giray Khan, son of

Mengli Giray Khan, may his victory be glorious!

To those commanding over tens of thousands [tümens], thousands, hundreds,

and tens of the right wing and the le wing, the ulans, beys, and mirzas, and

[to] all [the inhabitants] of the Polish country to begin with the Reverend

Archbishop;

also to the bishop of Włocławek, the Reverend Maciej;

also to

the bishop of Przemyśl, the Reverend Bishop Vice-chancellor;

also to the pala-

Text of the seal.

An Arabicized form of the name Mehmed.

In the inner frame there is the black trident-shaped emblem of the Girays (taraq

tamġa); for the reading of this nişan, cf. Mirkasym Usmanov, Žalovannye akty

Džučieva ulusa XIV–XVI vv., p. 153.

Jan Łaski, Crown chancellor (1503–1510), archbishop of Gniezno and primate

of Poland since 1510; see his biography by Włodzimierz Dworzaczek in PSB, vol. 18

(Wrocław etc., 1973), pp. 229–237.

Maciej Drzewicki, Crown chancellor (1511–1515), bishop of Włocławek (1513–

1531), then archbishop of Gniezno; see his biography by Władysław Pociecha in PSB,

vol. 5, pp. 409–412.

Piotr Tomicki, Crown vice-chancellor (podkanclerzy) since 1515, bishop of

Przemyśl (1514–1520), then of Poznań (1520–1525), and Cracow (1525–1535); see his

biography by Anna Odrzywolska-Kidawa, Biskup Piotr Tomicki (1464–1535): kariera

polityczna i kościelna (Warsaw, 2004).

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tine and warden

of Cracow, Pan

Krzysztof, the grand chancellor;

also to

the grand treasurer,

Pan Mikołaj;

also to the palatine [sic] of Kamieniec

and Lwów, the grand marshal;

also to the palatine of Poznań;

also to the

palatine of Sandomierz, Pan Firlej, the grand hetman;

also to the palatine of

Lublin, Pan Tęczyński;

and apart from those [mentioned above] to the great

bishops, canons,

vicars,

priests, townsmen,

knights,

all lords of the Great

Council, those in the inner [i.e., courtiers] and outer service, and to all com-

mon people:

ey should all duly know that I, Mehmed Giray Khan, also my son, Bahadır

Giray Sultan,

we have seen the friendship and brotherhood of our predeces-

sors, beginning from the great Tokhtamısh Khan and my father,

the great

Hadji Giray Khan, with the great King Vladislaus Jagiełło of Poland, and then

Tur. dizdar; it should be rendered here as Pol. starosta.

e Polish title pan is dicult to translate hence it is kept as in the original;

unlike the English “sir,” it applied not only to the nobles; on the other hand, the

modern equivalent “mister” sounds anachronistic.

Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Crown chancellor and starosta of Cracow since 1515,

palatine of Cracow (1515–1527), and then castellan of Cracow since 1527; see his

biography by Jerzy Kieszkowski, Kanclerz Krzysztof Szydłowiecki. Z dziejów kultury i

sztuki zygmuntowskich czasów, 2 vols. (Poznań, 1912).

Tur. ulu hazineci, i.e., “the great treasurer;” the term corresponds with the Polish

title of podskarbi wielki.

Mikołaj Szydłowiecki, Crown grand treasurer (podskarbi wielki) since 1515; his

short biography is contained in the biography of his brother by Jerzy Kieszkowski (cf.

n. 10 above).

is entry apparently refers to Stanisław Chodecki, the starosta of Kamieniec

Podolski (1494–1510) and of Lwów (1501–1529), the Crown grand marshal since

1505; yet, as his brother, Otto Chodecki, was the palatine of Kamieniec (1509–1515)

and then of Ruthenia, i.e., the province centered in Lwów (1515–1527), perhaps the

entry confuses the two brothers or refers to both of them; see their biographies by

Władysław Pociecha in PSB, vol. 3, pp. 350–351 and 352–354; cf. Urzędnicy wojewódz-

twa podolskiego XV–XVIII wieku (powiaty czerwonogrodzki, kamieniecki, latyczowski).

Spisy. Edited by K. Przyboś (Cracow, 1994), pp. 110, 121, and 169.

Mikołaj Lubrański, palatine of Poznań since 1511; see his biography by Janusz

Bieniak in PSB, vol. 18, pp. 84–85.

Mikołaj Firlej, head of numerous embassies to Constantinople (1488–1489, 1499–

1500, 1502), palatine of Lublin since 1507 and of Sandomierz since 1514, Crown grand

hetman since 1515, castellan of Cracow since 1520; see his biography by Władysław

Pociecha in PSB, vol. 7, pp. 8–10.

Andrzej Tęczyński, palatine of Lublin (1515–1520) and of Cracow (1527–1533),

then castellan of Cracow (1533–1536); cf. Urzędnicy centralni i nadworni Polski XIX–

XVIII wieku. Spisy. Edited by A. Gąsiorowski (Kórnik, 1992), p. 209.

Pol. kanonik is rendered in the Turkish text as qaloniq.

Pol. pleban is rendered in the Turkish text as pileban.

Pol. mieszczanin (mieszczan in the genitive plural) is rendered in the Turkish

text as meşcan.

Ruth. bojaryn is rendered in the Turkish text as bayarın.

On Bahadır Sultan, the oldest son of Mehmed Giray and his qalga since 1519,

see Document 17, n. 11.

Sic, in fact Hadji Giray was the grandfather of Mehmed Giray.

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the great Vytautas,

the ruler [bey] of Lithuania, and thereaer with the great

ruler of Poland and Lithuania, King Casimir, with whom the great khans, our

ancestors and elder brothers, had achieved friendship, brotherhood and true

peace, so that they had been friends to [their common] friends and enemies

to [their common] enemies. And [in result] their servants multiplied and their

kingdoms ourished, their friends rejoiced and their enemies weakened [lit.

went blind].

Now, we too, recalling the peace made by our ancestors, truly and with all

our hearts: Mehmed Giray Khan, also my son Bahadır Giray, also all my sons,

the princes [sultans], also all the ulans, beys, and mirzas, also all our servants

[nökers] in the inner [i.e., court] and outer service, we got together and our

present şartname was [issued and] taken by our great envoy Evliya Mirza,

the

son of our Shirin qaraçı Devletek Bey,

[along with] his tet,

an army bey and

my trusted servant [nöker], Ibrahim Bey;

also the envoy of yours, our brother,

Pan Anikij Hornostaj;

also Augustino de Garibaldis, cavalier of Spirindora,

Correctly rendered in A. as Vytovt (Vytovt is the Ruthenian form of the Lithu-

anian name Vytautas); in the Arabic script original mistakenly rendered as Davud

(

دواد).

is Tatar idiomatic expression can also be found in the Ruthenian translations

of this and other documents; cf. Document 12, n. 27.

On Evliya, the son of Devletek and the envoy to Poland-Lithuania in 1521, see

Document 19, n. 9.

On Devletek, the leader of the Shirin clan between ca. 1504 and 1507, see Docu-

ment 19, n. 8.

e term tet or tėt (ﺖﻴ

ﺗ

) apparently derives from the term tetik (“vigilant”) that

initially referred to a khan’s extraordinary envoy; for instance, Khan Berke’s envoy of

1262 was referred to by a contemporary Ruthenian chronicler as titjak or titjam; cf.

Grigor’ev, Sbornik xanskix jarlykov russkim mitropolitam, pp. 183–184. In the Crimean

Khanate, the term referred to the rst retinue member of a khan’s envoy; cf. Materialy

dlja istorii Krymskago xanstva, p. 936 (numerous occurrences recorded in the index).

Spelled as tet’ (теть), it is also encountered in sixteenth-century Russian documents

referring to Crimean embassies. e function of tet was then probably entrusted to

the khan’s courtiers and young members of the Crimean nobility. For instance, in

the Crimean embassies to Moscow the function of tet was assigned in 1508 to certain

Abdul, son of Avel Sheikh (Abdyl Avel’šix-zoda), in 1519 to certain Ahmed-pasha, son

of Khalil (Axmet paša Xolilev syn), and in 1531 to certain Ityak Tarkhan (Itjak Tarxan);

cf. Malinovskij, “Istoričeskoe sobranie,” pp. 395, 407, 419. e rst one’s father was

a prominent Crimean diplomat, who headed the embassies to Moscow in 1516 and

1531 (cf. Xoroškevič, Rus’ i Krym, p. 181 and Malinovskij, “Istoričeskoe sobranie,”

pp. 417–419), while the third one’s nickname (tarhan) referred to his immunity from

state obligations and thus conrmed his privileged status.

In Document 19 and the contemporary Ruthenian translation of the present

document (see Appendix), Ibrahim Bey is referred to as the khan’s chamberlain (naš

oxmystr); the last term apparently refers to his post of tet (cf. n. 27 above).

On Anikij Hornostaj, see Document 19, n. 4.

On Augustino de Garibaldis, a Genovese from Caa in the khan’s service,

see Document 16, n. 18; his title of the cavalier of Spirindora or Spirundora (qaval-

yer Aspiründur;

روﺪﻧوﺮﭙ

ﺳ

آ ر لاﻮﻗ) also appears in the Ruthenian translation of this

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who wishes our and your common good; in their sight we swore an eternal

oath by our Koran and engaged that we should be friends and brothers with

you, King Sigismund, my brother, and we should be friends to [our common]

friends, and enemies to [our common] enemies, being one with another as were

our ancestors, so that aerwards no enemy should interfere between us.

Also you, my brother, should eternally detain our enemy, Sheikh Ahmed

Khan along with his retainers [nökers], and should not let him go from your

kingdom until he is reached by death.

Also we should not detain—either with us, or with you—longer than two

months our envoys circulating between us, but we should send them back while

treating well; it is benecial if our men [acting] between us may leave, go, and

return.

Also we ask you, our brother, that hereaer you send us the promised annual

gi [ bölek]

of 15,000 orins from the two countries, Poland and Lithuania,

on the appointed term: you should send it by your feast of Pentecost, seven

weeks aer your feast of red eggs [i.e., Easter].

Also, as you have sent asking us for a şartname for your country [yurt] of

Poland, we have sent you our present şartname for your country of Poland,

written with gold and provided with a golden seal [nişan], through our great

envoy, Evliya Mirza, his tet Ibrahim Bey, and your envoy, Pan Anikij Hornos-

taj. For us, these two countries of Lithuania and Poland are [like] one. Whoever

is an enemy to Lublin, L’viv,

Kamjanec’ [of ] Podolia,

Medžybiž,

Xmil’nyk,

Letyčiv,

Zin’kiv,

Bučač,

Belz,

Sokal’,

Przemyśl,

Chełm,

Skala,

and

your other towns and villages

of Poland, and all your numerous people and

document (кавалериѧ Спириндора) as well as in Document 19 (кавалириѧ

Спиринъдора); cf. appendix and Document 19, n. 36.

For the translation of the term beng as “eternal” or “eternally,” cf. Vásáry, “A

contract of the Crimean khan,” p. 291, n. 9.

On the term bölek, see Kurat, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Arşivindeki Altın Ordu,

Kırım ve Türkistan hanlarına ait yarlık ve bitikler, pp. 51 and 53 (rendered in the

author’s modern Turkish translation as hediye), and Ananiasz Zajączkowski, “Dyp-

lomatyka Złotej Hordy i Krymu w XV w. (Nowe materiały z archiwum tureckiego),”

Przegląd Historyczny 37 (1948): 212–217, esp. p. 215.

Pol. Lwów; today in the Ukraine.

Pol. Kamieniec Podolski, the center of the province of Podolia (Pol. Podole, Ukr.

Podillja), today in the Ukraine.

Pol. Międzybóż, today in the Ukraine, in Podolia.

Pol. Chmielnik, today in the Ukraine, in Podolia.

Pol. Latyczów, today in the Ukraine, in Podolia.

Pol. Zinków, today in the Ukraine, in Podolia.

Pol. Buczacz, today in the Ukraine.

Pol. Bełz, today in the Ukraine.

Pol. Sokal, today in the Ukraine.

Ukr. Peremyšl’, today in Poland, but belonging to medieval Red Ruthenia.

Ukr. Xolm, today in Poland, but belonging to medieval Red Ruthenia.

Pol. Skała, today in the Ukraine, in Podolia.

e Tatar term sala derives from the Ruthenian selo (sela in plural). Perhaps the

initial pronunciation of this word in Tatar was sela rather than sala as might suggest

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dominions, will be our enemy as well; [and] whoever contemplates enmity

against these two countries, Poland and Lithuania, we will be his enemies.

Also, merchants from Poland should [freely] go and return from our country

to your country, and from your country to our country, and should not experi-

ence violence or oppression. ey should pay three aspers [aqça] per hundred

aspers as the stamp fee [tamġa], and they should not pay any other stamp or

weighting fees. ey should come safely and go sound and safe. If anybody from

among our sons, the princes [sultans], or from among the ulans, beys, mirzas,

our cossacks, and our numerous men commits violence or oppression and cap-

tures their [i.e., the merchants’] goods, we should seize them and restore, and

compensate [the victims]. Likewise, if violence and oppression touches our mer-

chants in your country and kingdom, you should entirely compensate them.

Now, in order to keep eternally and truly all our words written in our pres-

ent şartname, I personally, Mehmed Giray Khan, [along with]—to begin with

my son Bahadır Giray Sultan—all my sons, the princes [sultans], also all the

ulans, beys, and mirzas, also all my servants [nökers] in the inner [i.e., court]

and outer service, we swear to you an eternal oath by the name of God, by our

religion, by 124,000 prophets,

and by our prophet, His Excellency Muhammad

Mustafa,

that—by God, with God, and through God!—truly and with all our

hearts we should be friends and brothers with you, and no evil should befall

on your entire country, kingdom, all cities, towns, and villages listed in this

şartname, or on your numerous people

and all your men from us, our sons,

ulans, beys, mirzas, those in the inner and outer service, our cossacks, and all

our numerous men. We should not behave in a manner that diers from our

words [contained] in this şartname.

For the sake of authentication of our present şartname, we have

stamped the golden şartname with the golden nişan, and we have sent it.

Written in the great city of Ferahkerman,

at the date of the 9th day of the

blessed month of Zilkade in [the year] 926, on Sunday.

[seal] Mehmed Giray Khan, son of Mengli Giray Khan

the palatalized orthography encountered in the present document (the Arabic letters

sin and kef instead of the expected sad and gayn:

ﺎﻛﺰﻜﻧرﻻﻻﺎﺳ and not ﺎﻏﺰﻜﻧرﻻﻼﺻ).

According to a Muslim tradition (hadith), recorded in the collection of Ahmad

bin Hanbal, Allah sent 124,000 prophets to the earth, including Prophet Muhammad;

cf. Document 13, n. 3.

Mustafa (lit. “the Chosen”) is the second name of Prophet Muhammad.

e possessive dative ėlingizge kününgüzge derives from ėl kün, i.e., “people.”

I.e., Perekop, also known as Or qal‘esi or Or qapu; see Jankowski, Historical-

Etymological Dictionary, pp. 748–750.

Yekşenbe, i.e., the rst day of the week according to the Persian calendar.

In the middle of the seal there is the trident-shaped emblem of the Girays (taraq

tamġa).

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APPENDIX: the text of the Ruthenian copy (A.).

Доконъчанъе на Корꙋнꙋ Польскꙋю:

Богъ такии милостивыи, жалостивы, которыи милꙋеть свою хлопъю!

Бога единого моцъю, Мягъметъ Пророка наꙋкою, што Богъ Емꙋ ласкꙋ

свою далъ, божею милостю Магъметъ Киреи Цар, Дест-и Кипъчакъ

всимъ землѧм татарскимъ господарь, с предковъ своих господарь,

слово мое то естъ:

Праваѧ рꙋка, леваѧ рꙋка тмы, тмами [sic], сто и десетъ хто маеть,

со вланы, кнѧзи, и мурзами всеи земли Короны Полское, ꙋ головах

кнѧзю арцыбискупꙋ; владыславскому бискупꙋ, кнѧзю Матиѧсꙋ; пре-

мыскому бискупꙋ подканцлерему; пану Крыштоѳꙋ, воеводе краковс-

кому, каштелѧну [sic] и великому канъцлерꙋ; великому подскарбему,

пану Миколаю; каменецъкому воеводе [sic] и лвовскому, маршалъку

великому; познанскому воеводе; пану Ѳирлею, воеводе судомирскому,

великому гетману; воеводе любельскому, пану Точинскому; кроме

тыхъ Короны Полское великимъ бискупомъ, кановникомъ, плебаномъ,

попомъ, мещаном, боꙗромъ, и всимъ кроме того навышимъ Паномъ

Радомъ, и дворянам, и всимъ посполитымъ людемъ:

Справне то ведаите: Ꙗ самъ, Магъмет Киреи Цар, и сынъ мои

Богатыр Солътан, мы есмо видели нашихъ предковъ, которыхъ Богъ

съ сего света сослал, тыхъ нашихъ предков братство, и приꙗзнь, и

мир. Великии цар Токътомыш, великии цар Ѡдыч Киреи, почонъ ѡт

великого королѧ Владислава <и до> Ꙗкгела, и почонъ ѡт великого

кнѧзѧ Витовъта, и ко [sic] Казимера великого королѧ, предьки наши

и дѧди наши, великии цари с нимъ ꙋ братстве и приꙗзни были, и мир

держали правдою, какъ Короне Полскои, такъ Великому Кнѧзьству

Литовскомꙋ, кождому прыꙗтелю ихъ приꙗтели были, кождому

непрыѧтедю неприѧтелемъ были, слугъ поболшоло их и землѧ поши-

рела, приѧтели бы радовалисѧ, неприꙗтели слепы были.

И мы ꙋгленувши правды и мирꙋ предковъ нашихъ, с правого

серца

самъ Магъмет Киреи Цар, и сынъ мои Богатыр Солътанъ, вси дити

мои и братѧ мои цареве, вси вланы, кнѧзи, и мурзы, и еще вси дво-

ране мои, и вси мои подьданыи, вси поспол стали есмо, сее докон-

чане, которыи понес нашъ великии посолъ, великого карачеѧ сынъ

Довлетеков Ширеневскии Улиꙗр Мурза, под нимъ кнѧзь Абрагимъ,

нашъ ѡхъмистръ и верныи слуга, еще ваш посолъ, панъ Ѡникеи

Горностаевичъ, и к тому наш верныи слуга, пан Авъкгустин Кгали-

бардись, кавалериѧ Спириндора, которыи же вашого и вашого [sic

]

Written correctly at the bottom of p. 786; on p. 787 entered mistakenly as

с права.

In A* corrected: naszoho y waszoho.

document 20 (21 october 1520) 661

доброго хочеть, перед нами, и на нашои книзе Курꙗне присѧгнꙋли

есмо и правдꙋ сполнили, што с тобою, братомъ нашимъ, Жикгимон-

томъ королемъ, брат и прыѧтел бы был, приꙗтелѧ бы приѧтелъ был,

неприѧтелѧ непрыѧтель, ѡдин к ѡдному таковы быхмо были, какъ

наши предки были. Коли такъ будеть, межи нас ни ѡдин нас [sic]

неприѧтель не въвоидеть.

И вы, брат нашъ, нашого непрыѧтелꙗ Ши Ахъмата Цара и слугꙋ

его в себе бы держали твердо дотуль, поки на него Бог смерть

зошлеть.

И которыи межи нас и вас послы ездꙗть, вы бы, брат нашъ, и мы

тыхъ по[с]лов болшеи двух месецеи не держали, со всимъ добрымъ бы

их ѡтпускали. И коли так будꙋть ваши и наши слуги скоро ездити,

то добро.

А што намъ есте прирекли, брат нашъ, давати впоминъка в кождыи

годь по петнадцать тисѧчъ золотыхъ с обеюхъ панствъ вашихъ, какъ

с Короны Полское полѡсмы тысѧчи, а з Великого Кнежанъꙗ Литов-

ского полѡсмы тисѧчеи, ѡ тое вас, брата нашого просимъ, абы есте

тот впоминокъ до нас прислали по вашимъ свѧте Великодни ꙋ семи

неделѧхъ, на рок вашого свꙗта Пꙗнтикостеѧ.

Прислали есте до нас просѧчи докончанꙗ на ѡтчызнꙋ свою,

Корону Полскую; и мы золотомъ писали и под печатю золотою пос-

ломъ нашимъ великимъ, Ꙋлиꙗр Мурзою, и кнѧземъ Ѡбрагимомъ,

ѡхмистромъ нашимъ, и твоимъ посломъ, паномъ Ѡникиемъ Горно-

стаевичом, написавши тое докончанъе, к тобе, брату нашому, есмо

послали. И то ведаи, брат наш, намъ есть ѡбои панства твои за ѡдно,

какъ Корона Полскаꙗ, такъ Великое Кнежене Литовское. Короны

Полское городы: Люблинъ, Львовъ, Каменецъ Подолье [sic], Межи-

боже, Хмелникъ, Летичов, Зенъков, Бучачъ, Белзь, Сокалъ, Пере-

мысль, Холмъ, Скалакъ, еще кромѧ иныи городы, села, места, и всим

подъданымъ вашимъ, хто на тое панство, Корону Полскую неприꙗтел,

тот намъ неприꙗтелемъ, как на Корону Полскую, такъ на Великое

Кнежанъе Литовское.

Еще бы Короны Полское купъцы не боѧсѧ к намъ ездили, а наши

купъцы не боꙗсѧ ꙋ Корону Полскую ехати, ни ѡт насъ бы вашимъ

купъцомъ кривды не было, и ѡт вас бы нашим купъцомъ такъже

кривды не было. И коли с Короны Полское к нашои земли купъцы

приидꙋть, мыта на нихъ мають взꙗти ѡт ста денегъ три денъги, а

через то жадное бы сѧ кривды не боѧли, здорово бъ приехали, и засѧ

в свою землю здорово бы сѧ вернули, безо всѧкое шкоды. А естли

бы ѡт нашихъ детеи, або ѡт кнѧзеи, вланов, мурзъ, або ѡт казаков

нашихъ тымъ купъцов [sic] кривда бы была, и хто бы их пограбил, мы

в нихъ взѧвши засѧ имъ вернемъ. И наши купъцы коли ꙋ вашу землю

поедꙋть и хто бы их пограбил, и вы бы, брат нашъ, казали по тому ж,

ѡт тыхъ купъцов [sic] ѡтнемъши, купъцомъ нашимъ вернути.

И што в семъ докончани нашомъ написано, на всих нашихъ сло-

вахъ правдою твердою [м]аемъ стоѧти. Ꙗ, Магметь Киреи Цар, и

сынъ мои Богатыр Солътан в головахъ, и еще вси дети мои и братѧ

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мои царевичи, и вси [в]ланы, кнѧзи, и мурзы, и дворане, и вси мои

подданыи, твердо правдꙋ и присѧгу есмо чинили на божемъ имены,

и подлугъ веры нашего сто тисѧчъ, и двадьцать тисѧчъ, и чотыри

тисꙗчи пророковъ, еще нашъ правыи пророкъ Его Милость, Магъмет

Мастаѳа: волълаги, биллаги, ѡсталълаги, з вашимъ, правымъ сер-

цомъ брата нашого, брать и приꙗтель есмо, што в семъ докончани

нашомъ выписано все, и вашои земли, на все на вашо панство, мес-

томъ вашимъ, городомъ вашим, селомъ вашимъ, и всимъ подданымъ

вашимъ, и всимъ людемъ вашимъ, ѡт нас и ѡт детеи моих, и ѡт вла-

нов, и ѡт кнѧзеи, и мурзь, и дворан, и всихъ моихъ подъданых, и ѡт

козаков нашихъ, и ѡто всих людеи наших лихота бы не была. И в сих

докончанꙗ инакъ бы мы не были, и в слове маемъ ꙋ своемъ стоꙗти.

И сее докончане длѧ правды золотомъ написано, и под печатью

золотою послали есмо.

Лета Магмета пророка деветсот двадцат шостыи год, месеца зилка-

деи ѳ҃ [9] день, ѡк[тѧбра] к҃е҃ [25] день,

индикт ѳ҃ [9].

e dating is confusing as 9 Zilkade 926 A.H. corresponded with 21 October

1520. e same dierence between the Muslim and the Christian dates can be found

in the previous document; cf. Document 19, n. 41.

e indiction number, missing in the original, was apparently entered by the

Ruthenian translator or the Lithuanian chancery clerk who copied the present docu-

ment; the ninth indiction lasted from 1 September 1520 till 31 August 1521.

DOCUMENT 21 (FEBRUARY–MARCH 1522)

e oath by Evliya (Ovlijar), the Crimean envoy sent

to King Sigismund

Ruthenian copies:

A. RGADA, fond 389 = Litovskaja metrika, no. 7, pp. 844–845 [old folia-

tion: 425b–426a].

A.* 18th-century Latin transcription: AGAD, Metryka Litewska, no. 193, p. 494.

Какъ бѹдѹчы Господарю Его Милости ѹ Городне на великом

соимѣ, индыкт десѧтыи, посолъ великии Магъметъ Киреѧ, царѧ пере-

копского, Ѡвлиар мѹрза прысѧгу вчынилъ Господарю Его Милости

дꙋшою царевою тымъ ѡбычаемъ:

Ꙗ, Ѡвлиѧр мурза, прысѧгаю душею господарѧ моего, волного царѧ

Магъметъ Киреевою на ѧлъ-Куранъ, на бересатъ,

через Бога вышнего

имѧ, и черезъ Махамета пророка нашого, и через сто и двадъцать

и чотыри тисѧчи, и через триста и тринадъцать пророковъ нашихъ,

брату господарѧ моего, королю полскому и великому кнѧзю литовс-

кому, его милости Жикгимонъту, на томъ, ижъ господаръ нашъ, вели-

кии цар Магъметь Киреи маеть Королю Его Милости то все держати

справедливе и полнити во въсем подлꙋгъ того листа, которыи ѧ листъ

присѧжныи ѡт господарѧ моего Королю Его Милости прынес.

И во всемъ господаръ мои, волныи цар маеть Королю Его Милости

добра хотети и приѧти, и ничого на Господарѧ Его Милости и на

ѡбои панъства его милости: Коронꙋ Полскую и Великое Кнѧзьство

Литовское, лихого не мает мыслити, и сыновъ своихъ и людеи своихъ

внѧти, и не дати ѡбоюмъ панъствамъ его милости шъкоды чинити. И

приѧтелю Королꙗ

Его Милости маеть быти приѧтелемъ, а неприѧтелю

неприѧтелемъ.

И естли то господаръ мои сполънить, Боже ему помози, а естли

то не сполнить, Боже ему не помози, и нехаи будеть ѡтдаленъ ѡт

ласки божое и закону Махомета пророка нашого, и тыхъ всихъ вышеи

писаныхъ пророковъ нашихъ, и нехаи будет ꙗко неѧвныи поганинъ,

и нехаи бы жадныи его сынъ, и по немъ будꙋчи, на томъ царстве, на

которомъ ѡнъ царꙋеть, не царевали,

але какъ Богъ правдивыи и спра-

ведливыи, нехаи ихъ кинеть съ стольца ѡтцовскаго, а неприѧтеле ихъ

нехаи Богъ на томъ стольцы пановати вчинить на вечъныи часы.

Perhaps it should read: берекатъ, i.e., “the divine blessings” in Arabic and

Turkish.

Written mistakenly: королю.

Written mistakenly: на церевали.