| Presentation of documentary evidence relating to the life of Calixtus Ottomanus, the son of Murad II brought from Adrianople and baptized a Christian by Giovanni Torcello, a Venetian knight from Crete. A flyleaf in an incunabulum of the Tractatus de moribus by the Gregorian monk Georgius, belonging to the Shedelsche Bibliothek, reveals that in 1487 Calixtus was in Nuremburg. This fits in with the time at which King Maximilian is known to have been staying in the city. The incunabulum is thought to have been given to Calixtus by Hartmann Schedel, who was serving as a doctor and town councilor at Nuremburg. |