Illustrations from the manuscript of:

The pilgrimage of the Knight Arnold von Harff from Cologne through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nubia, Palestine, Turkey, France and Spain, as he has completed in the years 1496 to 1499, described and illustrated by drawings.

Folio 53v  Costumes of the Greeks and Turks.


Trachten der Griechen und Türken.
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Woodcut of this subject.
Note the arming caps worn under their hats.
Perhaps influenced by Greeks in Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam by Breydenbach & Reuwich, 1486

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