Note 430 — Chapter V · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS A NOBILITY AND A COURT
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“Kanun of the Imperial Table,” printed in Hammer’s Staatsverfassung, 98: “It is not my Kanun that any one should dine with my Imperial Majesty; it might be some one not of Imperial blood.” Suleiman did not always observe this Kanun (cf. Hammer, Geschichte, iii. 99).