Letter of Emperor Leopold I to Sultan Mustafa II, Vienna, 11

530 Rikāb-ı hümāyūn-ı şehriyārīye Nemçe çāsārından gelen nāmenüñ tercemesidür muʿazzez ve mükerrem ḳoñşu ve dostumuz Anāṭolı ve Rūm-ili ve Āl-i ʿOs̱mān şehinşāhı şevketlü ve ḳudretlü Sulṭān Muṣṭafā Ḫan ḥażretlerine bi-ʿināyeti’llāhi teʿālā bi’l-intiḫāb Romā imperātorı dāʾimā aġustūs ve Nemçe ve Macār ve Dālmāçya ve Ḫırvāt ve İslāġovīna ḳrālı ve Avusturye arḳīdūḳası ve Burġundiyye ve Brābānciyye ve İstirye ve Ḳārīnye ve Ḳārīnola dūḳası ve Morāvye mārkizi ve Luccebūrgiyye ve yuḳaruki 531 ve aşaġaki Silerye ve Vīrtenberge ve Teke dūḳası ve Īsüviyye fürsti Vāsbūrḳ ve Tīrol ve Ḳard ve Kibūrġ ve Ġoriçye ġrūfı ve Ālsacya lāndġrāvı ve ḥürmetlü Romā imperātorluġınuñ ve Buyūrġuya ve yuḳaruki [Lūzācye] ve aşaġaki Lūzācyenüñ mārkizi ve Islāvon mārkiyesinüñ ve Nāvon limānınuñ ve Sālīnalarınuñ māliki Le- opūldūs ṭarafından ṣıḥḥat-ı kāmile ve saʿādet-i külliyye izdiyādı edʿiyesinden ṣoñra muʿazzez ve mükerrem ḳoñşu ve dostumuz şevketlü pādişāh ḥażretleri aḳvā-yı dostluḳ ve ḥüsn-i civārıñ izdiyādı ḳaṣdıyla ʿunvān-ı lāyıḳa ile ṭarafeynden büyük ilçiler vesāṭatıyla geçen sene ʿaḳd ve muḳarrer olunan ṣulḥ u ṣalāḥ āşikāre teʾyīd ve teʾkīd ve vaṣfı mümkin olmayan sürūr ve şadımānlıḳ ile iki devletüñ bu ḳadar milel ve ṭavāʾifüñ gözleri öniñde tenvīr ile ziyāde mütebeyyin eylemek murād olunduḳdan ṣoñra bāḳīdür ki bu mübārek ve müteyemmin maṣlaḥatıñ şāhidleri ve ḫaber-resānları olan ilçiler istiḳbāl-i muʿtāde ile sınūr başında mübādele ve herkes gendü āşiyānına ʿavdet eyleye ve bu sebeb ile der-i ʿOs̱māniyyeden ilçimüzüñ ʿavdet ve inṣirāf ile çıḳdıġı maʿlūm olduḳda cenāb-ı şevket-maḳrūnlarınuñ ilçisi İbrāhīm Paşa daḫı sefāret merāsimini bu cānibde tekmīl ve tekrīm-i imparātorī ile vech-i lāyıḳ üzere mürüvvet ile iḥtirām olunub ke-ẕālik girü ʿavdet itdürilmişdür cenāb-ı şevket-maḳrūnlarınuñ ʿāmme-i rāḥatına ve bu ṣulḥ u ṣalāḥ 532 riʿāyetine ne mertebe ḥüsn-i teveccüh ile meyl ü raġbetleri olduġını ilçi-i mūmā ileyh tafṣīl üzere bize beyān eyleyüb bu ḥāṣıl olan kāffe-i enāmıñ müşterek ārāmiş ve āsāyişi ile imtidād-ı ceng ü cidālden muṣībet ile mükedderü’l-ḥāl olan reʿāyānuñ bu ḳadar zemāndan berü ārzū olunan teneffüsleri peydā olub taʿyīn olunan müddet rıżā-yı rabbāniyyeye muvāfıḳ olur ise daḫı ziyāde senelere degin işbu ṣulḥ u ṣalāḥa geregi gibi ḥürmet ile mür āʿāt olunmaġla s̱ebāt üzere mütemādī olacaġına bu ṭarḥ olunan esāsa iʿtimād ile ḳatʿā meşkūk ve müştebihümüz olmaduġı gibi ilçi-i mūmā ileyh kemāl-i ṣafvet üzere olan niyyetlerimüzden daḫı ḫaberdār ve bā-ḫuṣūs tefrīḳ-i ḥudūd ve sınūr emrini temşiyyetde yaḳından iẓhār eyledügimüz diḳḳat ve himmet-i tāmmemüze kendü kemāl-i rüşd ile ziyāde vāḳıf olmaġın ẕikr olunan ṣulḥ u ṣalāḥuñ ṭarafumuzdan daḫı muvāfaḳat ile olan ḥüsn-i teveccühümüzi ve ḫulūṣ üzere meyl ü raġbetimüzi ḥuzūr-ı şevket-maḳrūnlarına ke-ẕālik ʿıyān ve beyān idebilür iki devlet mābeyninde ḥāṣıl olan dostluġuñ izdiyādına muvāfıḳ olan deḳāyıḳı tetmīm ile memdūḥiyyet ve kemāl-i teḳayyud üzere ilçilik ḫidmetini edā eyledügi ecilden ilçi-i mūmā ileyhüñ merġūb olunması maṭlūbumuz olub bāḳī tetmīm-i merāsim-i meveddet ve ʿan-ṣamīmi’l-kalb cenāb-ı şevket-maḳrūnlarına ṣıḥḥat-ı kāmile imtidādı ile ṣaʿādet-i külliyye s̱enāların ideriz Beç şehrinde 533 biñ yedi yüz senesinde ve Romā imparātorluġumuzuñ ḳırḳ üçünci senesinde ve Macār ḳrallıġumuzuñ ḳırḳ altıncı senesinde ve Çeh ḳrallıġumuzuñ ḳırḳ beşinci senesinde teşrīn-i evvelüñ evāsıṭında yazılmışdur. Cenāb-ı şevket-maḳrūnlarınuñ ṣādıḳ koñşusı Leʾopūldūs

Translation of the letter sent to the royal threshold of the sultan by the ceaser of Austria. To our exalted and illustrious neighbor and friend, his majesty, the powerful and magnificent Sultan Mustafa Han, the ruler of the Anatolia and Rumelia and the house of Osman, from Leopold, forever august, the elected emperor of the Roman Empire by the grace of God Almighty, king of Austria, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia, archduke of Austria, duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, margrave of Moravia and Luxemburg, duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, Württemberg and Teck, prince of Swabia, count of Habsburg, Tyrol, Görz, Kyburg, and Gradisca, landgrave of Alsace, marquis of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Upper [Lusatia] and Lower Lusatia, and lord of the marquisate of Slavonia, Port Naon and Salines, following the extension of greetings with wishes for perfect health and all-encompassing happiness; to our exalted and illustrious neighbor and friend, his majesty the sultan: for the purpose of further strengthening the powerful friendship and favorable neighborliness between our realms, and in order to affirm and fortify the peace and accord that was agreed upon last year under fitting and appropriate titles, we sought to publicly confirm and reiterate this treaty through [sending of] grand ambassadors by both sides, thereby desiring to make known to many nations and peoples, with an inexpressible sense of joy and celebration, the evident brilliance of this momentous occasion. Hence, it is proposed that the witnesses and heralds of this blessed and fortunate event—our ambassadors—be exchanged with customary receptions at the border, and that each party then return to their respective capitals. Accordingly, when we learned of the departure of our ambassador from the Ottoman lands, we ensured that Ibrahim Pasha, your exalted excellency’s ambassador, after completing his ambassadorial duties here, was treated with the utmost imperial respect and honor, and that he was sent back with the same level of courtesy in an appropriate manner. Your excellency’s esteemed ambassador made it clear to us how deeply you are committed to maintaining the well-being of all and adhering to this peace and amity. Thanks to this mutual rest and security, achieved for all the people, the subjects, who have long suffered the calamities of warfare and struck by disaster, have now gained the long desired respite. If we continue, in accordance with divine will, to uphold and obey this peace and accord with the respect and honor it deserves throughout many years to come, we are confident and sure, without any doubt or uncertainty, that they will endure. Moreover, the aforementioned ambassador has been fully informed of our own sincere intentions. He has seen, firsthand, the particular care and diligence we have shown regarding the demarcation of boundaries, and he is well aware of the attention we have given to this matter. He will convey to your glorious majesty, exactly as it is, the goodwill and inclination toward peace that we share on this matter. It is also our wish that the ambassador be favorably regarded, as he has diligently fulfilled his duties as an envoy and has carefully completed his service with great honor and commendation, befitting the increase in friendship between the two states. In conclusion, we express our heartfelt prayers for your continued health and complete happiness, with the hope that the formalities of friendship will be perpetuated between us. Written in Vienna in the year 1700, in the forty-third year of our reign as [Holy] Roman emperorship, the forty-sixth year of our reign as king of Hungary, and the forty-fifth year as king of Bohemia, mid-October. Your excellency's faithful neighbor, Leopold.