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Ottoman Soldiers in a Pāshānameh, c. 1630
British Library, Sloane 3584, folio 20a


Plate 174 in "A Mamlūk axe" by Helmut Nickel, pp. 149-161 in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. Robert Elgood, London 1979
174 Axe-bearers marching in front of a general, miniature from Pāshānameh, c. 1630. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, Sloane 3584, fol. 20a)



Referenced on p.35, Armies of the Ottoman Turks, 1300-1774 by David Nicolle & Angus McBride
This miniature of Ken'an Paşa marching against Albanian rebels shows the new infantry who were then the most effective Ottoman troops. (Paşaname, c.1630, Ms. Sloane 3584, f.20a, Brit. Lib., London)

Plate G1: Tüfekçi, mid-17th century
Tüfekçi
musketeers were among the new infantry recruited during the 17th century. This man has an imported Dutch rapier, and a Turkish-made musket with an imported European wheel-lock. ('Paşa-Nāmah', Ottoman, c.1630, Ms. Sloane 3584, Brit. Lib., London; wheel-lock musket, Ottoman, 17th cent., Army Museum, Istanbul.)
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