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 72v  Costume of the Mamelukes.


Tracht der Mameluken.
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Woodcut of this subject.


The woodcut is referenced as Figure 11. in Sultans with Horns: The Political Significance of Headgear in the Mamluk Empire by Albrecht Fuess
Red zamṭ.

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