Re: VMs: Siyaqat...

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> 
> Hungary was for years (centuries?) a bastion of the Ottoman empire in
> Europe, and Fekete's studies started from the large numbers of Ottoman
> documents within the Budapest archives - but his research broadened out
> from there, culminating in his 1955 "Die Siyaqat-Schrift in der turkischen
> Finanzverwaltung" masterwork.

	I find this interesting, because I've always wondered
about possible 
Eastern European provenance, due to Prague and the
relative obscurity of 
Eastern European history.  Of course, most things point
to northern Italy...

> However, I take this as an indication of what ideas were in the air at the
> time, rather than as a specifically causal chain lining it to the VMs per
> se. So - siyaqat is extremely interesting, but is (I'm 99% certain)
> unconnected to the VMs. :-(


	Sounds about right.

Dennis
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