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                    sickness, Constantinople, n.d. (ca. 1701)</title>
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                    über die Abreise von dessen Sohn nach Wien nach Genesung, Konstantinopel, o.D.,
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                    Büyükelçisi Graf IV. Wolfgang zu Oettingen-Wallerstein’a hitaben yazdığı,
                    elçinin oğlunun hastalığından iyileşmesinin ardından Viyana’ya dönüş yolculuğuna
                    başladığını bildiren mektup, Konstantiniyye, ts., (1701 civarı)</title>
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                    den habsburgischen Großbotschafter Graf Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallerstein
                    über die Abreise von dessen Sohn nach Wien nach Genesung, Konstantinopel, o.D.,
                    (ca. 1701), bearb. von Yasir
                    Yılmaz and Rana Bayram, Datenmodellierung: Jakob Sonnberger, Stephan Kurz, in:
                    Die Großbotschaften Wolfgang IV. zu Oettingen-Wallersteins und Elçi İbrahim Paşas (1699–1701), hg. von Arno Strohmeyer und Stephan Kurz (Digitale Edition
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        <metamark>İn-şāa’llāhū teʿālā maḥabbetlü raġbetlü ḥürmetlü Sīnyor <rs ref="#mpr10486" type="person">Ḳonte Dötingen</rs> ṣavb-ı bāhirü’l iʿtibārlarına</metamark>
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          <lb/>Maḥabbetlü raġbetlü ḥürmetlü Sīnyor <rs ref="#mpr10486" type="person">Konte Dötingen</rs> ṣavb-ı bāhirü’l-iʿtibārlarına maḥabbet-i derūn ile
                    <lb/> selām-ı selāmet-nümā ve peyām-ı müsālemet-intimā iblāġıyla ḥāl ü
                    ḫāṭırları suʾāl olunmaḳ siyāḳında münhā-i dostānemüz oldur ki</ab>
        <ab xml:id="ab.2">

          <lb/> benim ṣadāḳatlü ve ḥaḳīḳatlü dostum vaḳt-i ʿavdetiñüzde baʿżı
                    ʿillet ü ʿārıża sebebiyle bunda ḳalan <rs
            ref="#mpr16058" type="person">oġluñuz</rs> elḥamdüli’llāhi teʿālā maṣḥūb-ı ṣıḥḥat
                    <lb/> ü ʿāfiyet olub ṭarafıñuza ʿazīmet itmekle varaḳa-i muḥabbet silk-i
                    taḥrīre getürülmişdür</ab>
        <ab xml:id="ab.3">muḳṭeżā-yı beşeriyyet ve kes̱ret-i şevāġil ile
                    <lb/> ke-mā yenbaġī ḫāṭır-nevāzlıḳlarında ḳuṣūrumuz olmuş ise daḫı
                    beynimizde müʾekked ve müşeyyed olan dostluḳ muḳteżāsınca ʿafv olunub
                    <lb/> fī-mā daḫı ḫāṭırdan iḫrāc olunmayub düşdükce peyām-ı ṣıḥḥat ü
                    ʿāfiyetlerin iʿlāmdan ḥālī olmayalar ki bāʿis̱-i izdiyād-ı sürūr
                    <lb/> olacaġında şübhe yoḳdur bāḳī-i hemīşe der ṣıḥḥat ü ʿāfiyet müstedām
                    bād</ab>
        <ab xml:id="ab.4">eżʿaf-ı ʿibādi’llāhi’l-meliki’l-vehhāb <rs ref="#mpr17178" type="person">Meḥemmed <supplied resp="#yy">Mehmed</supplied> Rāmī</rs> reʾīsü’l küttāb</ab>
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        <ab xml:id="ab.5">Godwilling, to the honorable regards of esteemed <rs ref="#mpr10486" type="person">Graf (Wolfgang IV) zu Oettingen(-Wallerstein)</rs>
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        <ab xml:id="ab.6">To the most esteemed and honorable Señor <rs ref="#mpr10486" type="person">Graf
                        Wolfgang IV) zu Oettingen(-Wallerstein)</rs>, with sincere affection and
                    respectful greetings, I inquire after your well-being and health. It is with the
                    utmost friendship that I write to inform you.</ab>
        <ab xml:id="ab.7">My loyal and since friend, following your departure, your <rs ref="#mpr16058" type="person">son</rs>, who had remained here due to some illness and
                    affliction, has, praise be to Almighty God, recovered and is now in good health
                    and well-being. He is currently on his way towards you, and thus this letter of
                    affection has been written.</ab>
        <ab xml:id="ab.8">Should there have been any shortcomings in our hospitality due to human nature
                    and the multitude of preoccupations, I trust that, in accordance with the firm
                    and enduring friendship established between us, you will forgive and overlook
                    this, keeping our bond intact. I would be grateful if you could continue to
                    share news of your health and well-being whenever you think of it, as such
                    tidings would undoubtedly bring great joy (to us). May you remain perpetually in
                    good health and well-being. </ab>
        <ab xml:id="ab.9">The most humble servant of God, the Ruler and Bestower, <rs ref="#mpr17178" type="person">Mehmed Rami</rs>, Chief of the Scribes</ab>
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