Note 620 — Chapter VI · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS GOVERNMENT
Reading edition
The Divan, as it was about 1800, is described in D’Ohsson, vii. 211-232; and in Hammer, Staatsverwaltung, 412-436. Contemporary references are Menavino, 169; Postel, i. 122; Navagero, 93; Trevisano, 117; Garzoni, 430. Zinkeisen, iii. 117-125, has pictured the Divan in the sixteenth century.