Costumes de la Cour du Grand Seigneur

Salvete Omne,

 

a quick entry today -  the great French National Library on line aka Gallica contains a digital copy of a manuscript titled  'Costumes de la Cour du Grand Seigneur '[Ottoman Turkish emperor], compiled around 1630AD.

Drawn and painted in gouache, and written in Italian this manuscript is a veritable feast for the eyes, showing the splendor and beauty of the old Ottoman and Crimean Tatar costumes and people. 

Some of the plates below:

Tatar khan

Tatar warrior

Sipahi

 

 

Cairo [Ottoman Egyptian cavalryman)

 

and his servant

master of the stables

Courier 

Janissary

Valete