New English One descriptive text with facsimile of Ahdnama in Ottoman Turkish on special cloth in roll in publisher's special box. Facsimile in roll, as open (48 x 18 cm). Descriptive text in trilingual (translations of Ahdnama in English, Croatian, and Turkish). "This edict, which has provided independence and tolerance to the ones, who are from another religion, belief, and race, was declared by Mehmed II the Conqueror and prepared in Milodraz after the conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 28 of 1463. The original edict is still kept in the Franciscan monastery in Fojnica. The Ahdnama of Fatih Sultan Mehmet, which was written in 1463, was the oldest Human Rights Declaration known in history. It was announced 326 years before 1789 French Revolution, 485 years before 1948 International Human Rights Declaration and 29 years before the discovering America. "The son of Sultan Murad Khan, Mehmed the Permanent Conqueror! The signed and shining sealed edict of the conqueror of the world, majestic and great Sultan is as follws: I, Sultan Mehmed Khan, declare to the whole world that the Bosnian Franciscans granted with this imperial edict are under my protection and I command that: No one shall bother and give harm to those who are mentioned, nor their churches. They shall live in security and freedom...".
