The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Sultan Achmet ( - )

References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

10. A Picture of the great Fire which happened at Constantinople in the Reign of Sultan Achmet. The Janizaries in the mean time plundring the best Houses, Nassa Bassa the Vizier riding about with a Cimetre in one hand and a Janizary's Head in the other to deter them; and the Priests attempting to quench the Fire, by pieces of Mahomet's Shirt dipped in holy Water and thrown into it.

Musaeum Clausum (1684)

30. An exact and proper delineation of all sorts of Dogs upon occasion of the practice of Sultan Achmet; who in a great Plague at Constantinople transported all the Dogs therein unto Pera, and from thence into a little Island, where they perished at last by Famine: as also the manner of the Priests curing of mad Dogs by burning them in the forehead with Saint Bellin's Key.