2.1 Theoklitos Polyeidis: Frontispice of Polyeidis T., Sacra Tuba Fidei, Apostolicae, Sanctae, Oecumenicae ac Orthodoxae Graecanae Orientalis Ecclesiae Christi (s.l. [Stockholm, s.n.]: 1736), Ex. Österr. Nationalbibliothek *31.J.82. Public domain 65
2.2 Album amicorum of Theoklitos Polyeidis, Iviron Monastery, Cod. Athos 4733,
3.1 Giuseppe Capparoni, La degradazione del vescovo. Etching, 162 × 270 mm (matrix), 1830. From: Raccolta di XCV stampe disegnate e incise da G. Capparoni, rappresentanti funzioni ecclesiastiche, cerimonie per la morte del Papa, pel Conclave, per la nuova elezione del Papa etc. etc., 2 vols. (Rome: 1829–1830), vol. II, plate 55. (Photo by Antonio Barberis, 2021.) Private collection, courtesy of Ilaria Fiumi Sermattei 108
3.2 Drawing of the alleged decoration conferred by the Pasha of Egypt on Abramo Chasciur, March 1824 (ACDF, SO, St. St., S2-b, fol. 38r). Image © 2021 Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede 111
3.3 Examples of Chasciur’s handwriting from the records of the inquisitorial trial, 23 June 1825 (ACDF, SO, St. St., S2-b, fol. 200v). Image © 2021 Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede 117
3.4 False letter from Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha to Chasciur, Cairo, 28 April 1824 (ACDF, SO, St. St., S2-b, fol. 45r). Image © 2021 Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede 119
11.1 Map of the Ottoman, the Habsburg and the Venetian Empires. © David do Paço 379
13.1 Jean Baptiste Vanmour, Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen at his Audience with Sultan Ahmed III, 14 September 1727. Painted c. 1727–1730. Oil on canvas, 90×121 cm. © Public Domain. Rijksmuseum, Object number SK-A-4078 413
13.2 Inventory of Louis Monier. The Hague, Nationaal Archief, 1.02.20 Legatie Turkije, 1064 (Registers van akten 1731–1736), 200–201 427
13.3 Inventory of Louis Monier. The Hague, Nationaal Archief, 1.02.20 Legatie Turkije, 1064 (Registers van akten 1731–1736), 202–203 428
13.4 Inventory of Louis Monier. The Hague, Nationaal Archief, 1.02.20 Legatie Turkije, 1064 (Registers van akten 1731–1736), 204–205 429
14.1 Scheme of the Relationship between things, social networks and forms of agency, © Cornel Zwierlein 445
14.2 Close-up from a letter by the firm Levett & Fitzhugh, Galata 22 April and 23 May 1762 to John Mitford concerning the remains and auction of household of James Jennings, TNA Kew, C 113/11, unpag. 449
14.3 Scheme of the England-Constantinople communication between the heir of a Levant merchant deceased abroad, his attorney and the assigned of the deceased © Cornel Zwierlein 449
14.4 Close-up from the inventory of household and auction of James Jenning with watches listed as in TNA SP 105/83, pp. 269–275 462
14.5 Close-up from the letter by Alexander Drummond to John Free, Alexandretta, 12 January 1747/48, BL Add Ms. 45932, p. 77 464
14.6 Close-up from the letter by Alexander Drummond to John Boddington, Alexandretta, 26 December 1750, BL Add Ms. 45933, p. 84 465
14.7 Merchant marks for trade goods from Merchant letters, French and British chancery records, AE Nantes, Radcliffe Papers, TNA Kew. They serve here as illustration and comparison with the special freemason marks 466
14.8 Merchant marks with the square/compass symbol, in the chancery records from Aleppo TNA SP 110-73-2 (6), unpag. (1762); SP 110/73-2(3), p. 265; and AE Nantes 18 PO B 1 Alep, n. 36 (1766) 467
14.9 Two freemason marks, from the title page of Les Plus Secrets Mysteres des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie Dévoilés, ou le Vrai Rose-Croix, Traduit de l’Anglois; Suivi de Noachite, Traduit de l’Allemand. A Jérusalem [Holland] [1787] and the seal of the Loge des Vrais Bataves in 1789, taken from Beaurepaire P.-Y., L’Autre et le frère. L’Etranger et la Franc-maçonnerie en France au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: 1998) picture 1 after p. 735 469
14.10 Seal on: Alexander Drummond to Levett & Fitzhugh in Galata/Constantinople, Aleppo 26 January 1752, BL IOR 1/37, fol. 12; the Wakeman seal on a letter by George Wakeman, Acri, 6 April 1736, to John Radcliffe, Radcl B 203 470
14.11 Sketches of the windows of Drummond Castle [‘Chatteau’] for which Alexander Drummond asked for some lattices, Drummond to Hammond, Alexandretta 22 March 1748/9, BL Add Ms. 45932, p. 192 477
14.12 Mediterranean-Far East communication after around 1700 and later. Map © Cornel Zwierlein 479
14.13 Extracts from the Inventory of Rowland Sherman’s household TNA SP 110/73-2 (7), fol. 57v–73v 481
14.14 Graphs representing the content of the inventories of Savage, Vernon, Whalley, Quennel with their relationships as Savage had bought several items from them TNA SP 105/179, pp. 92–103; SP 105–178, pp. 112–113; SP 105–178, pp. 265–267; SP 105–178, pp. 134–136 487