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Patriarch Gennadius II Scholarius and Sultan Mehmed II.
1901-1929
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- Greek
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Patriarch Gennadius II Scholarius and Sultan Mehmed II.
- Call Number
- A South 04/Drawer 08/GC094/Elephant Folio/ GA 2024.02982
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcx920g977p
- Language
- Greek
- Date Created
- 1901-1929
- Extent
- 1 item ; print 25 x 42.5 cm sheet 40 x 56.5 cm
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Unidentified artist [engraver]
- Medium: Lithographs
- An early twentieth century Greek/Ottoman lithograph depicting the Patriarch Gennadius II having a conversation with Sultan Mehmed II. The scene takes place after the appointment of Gennadius as Patriarch of Constantinople and certain privileges granted to the ecumenical patriarch by Mehmed II, the Conqueror, about the Greek Orthodox Church in Constantinople in 1453.
- Title is written in Turkish above the main scene of the lithograph as well as in Greek and French below, in two columns, with a laurel wreath in between bearing an inscription in Armenian. The Greek title to the left reads as follows: "Ho Soultanos Mōameth B' ho porthētēs episēmōs aponemei tō / Oikoumenikō Patriarchē Gennadiō tō Scholariō ta pro- / nomia tēs ekklēsias en etei 1453 (Antigraphon ex archaias eikonos)" and the French title: "Sultan Mohamed II vainqueur, de Constantinople offre / officiellement au patriarche œcuménique Yénnadios / scholarios les concessions ecclessiastiques. Année 1453."
- "Euriskontai en tō typographeiō Lagopoulou Zoump[...] Chan ar. 6 (?)."
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
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- Omega Project
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f0d602ca-ad92-42af-a343-6d1c4e6f4cb5/manifest