A Silver Rapier for Midir

An Ottoman Berāt in the form of a mülk (a land grant)

This is the command of the noble, exalted, lofty sultinic sign and the illustrious, world-conquering khakanic tuğra… may it be effective through Divine aid and Eternal protection! Heed the mighty words of the Sultan Ozur and Sultana Fortune: We have commanded that Our warrior, Midir of Quintavia, having pleased us on the tournament field with the skill of his sword, be inducted into the Order of the Silver Rapier, and be granted a plot of land in Quinitavia, wooded and fertile with large stones. This command, thus given in writing, must therefore be enacted before the sun has set on this day, the 27th of April in the 53rd year of the Society, from Our Dīvān at Balfar’s Challenge.

Commentary:
Relying on my original research, I was able to create an AOA level fighting award for a gentleman who starting coming to my regular rapier practice. At the time we thought his persona was Turkish, and so when the assignment came up, Nataliia, knowing that I had just done a Turkish chivalry scroll asked me to do it. Since that time we have discovered that he is keeping "Midir" but his persona is now Irish.
Win some, lose some.
The in joke in this scroll is that he lives in the Barony of Carolingia, but practice is in the Shire of Quintavia, so when Their Magesties made him a Lord, they gave him land in Quintavia, and in fact Quintavia sits on a bunch of boulders that were left behind when the glaciers melted, hence "large stones". In land grants in period, the land given was often described in similar fashion, but often in a far less appealing manner. "Infertile and stony", "Barren with small trees" and the like.
I decided to make Quintavia fertile, as the Queen who gave this award, Fortune I, is also from Quintavia.

Format Notes:

http://www.thepenmightier.com/2019/01/ideas-for-ottoman-scroll-texts.html

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