Illustrations of Ottoman Costume & Soldiers from:

Hans Weigel's 'Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum ... das ist Trachtenbuch, Nuremburg, 1577', 2nd ed., Ulm: Kühn for Görlin, 1639.

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Turkish emperor on horseback
Turkish emperor
Turkish imam

Peik
Solak
Janissary

Imperial guard
Footsoldier to an emir
Christian footsoldier

Deli
Turkish soldier with pickaxe
Turkish cannoneer

Azab / Azap
Turkish groom
Egyptian from Cairo


William Caoursin's The Siege of Rhodes, 1496
Illustrations of Soldiers from Nicolas de Nicolay's Peregrinations faites en Turquie, 1576
Ottomans in De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due by Cesare Vecellio, 1590
Ottoman Soldiers from contemporary European Illustrations by Melchior Lorck, 1570-83
I Turchi. Codex Vindobonensis 8626 of Bartolemeo von Pezzen, 1586 to 1591
Ottoman Turks of the Renaissance Period by George Gush
Ottoman Soldiers from other European Illustrations

Ottoman Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers in the 15th to 19th Centuries
Index of Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers



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