[717] Vie de Timour, iii. 255.
[718] ‘Osman possessed all Anatolia, which he called Osmania: he came to be called Lord of Asia Minor,’ Formanti, 4; ‘Osman made himself master of all Anatolia without any difficulty,’ Spandugino; ‘Osman seized Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bithynia,’ Cuspianus, 10; ‘master of Syria as well as of Asia Minor,’ Donado da Lezze, 5.
[719] Formanti; Geuffroy; Donado; Cuspianus; Giovio Paulo; Richer; Guazzo, 257 vº.
[720] Rabbi Joseph, ii. 505.
[721] Mignot, 33.
[722] Chronique de Saint-Denis (Ed. Soc. Hist. de France), i. 319, 709.
[723] Richer, whom I have already quoted in Chapter I.
[724] ‘Cette nation nombreuse, pleine de confiance dans ses forces, et brûlant du désir de soumettre à sa domination toute la chrétienté, avait quitté les confins de Perse.’ Chronique de Saint-Denys, i. 709.
[725] ‘Quod cum ante complures annos florens illud Orientis imperium everterit et in Occidentis non exigua spacia invaserit, atque oppresserit quod reliquum nobis factum est, omni vi suo intolerabile iugum ditionemque redigere studet.’ Domini de la Vuo, Disputatio de bello turcico, bound in with Camerarius, p. 94, in Bibl. Nat., Paris, Imprimés, no. J 860.
[726] Col. Djevad bey, 192-3.