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Illustrations from Topkapi Sarayi Museum, MS. Hazine 1597-8

Selīm-nāma by Şūkrī-i Bitlisī of c.1521-25AD

f1a. The author, scribe, and artist of the Selimname.

f23b. One of the battles of Prince Selim while he was in Trabzon Sanjak.

f32a. Selim and his father-in-law Mengli Giray I.

f44a. Bayezid II fighting his son Selim at Uğraşdere.

f52b. Bayezid II with his Divan.

f62a. Funeral of Bayezid II.

f64b. Selim I being entertained.

f83b. Selim I fighting his brother Ahmed.

f113a. Shah Ismail observes the Ottoman army before the Battle of Chaldiran.

f?. Shah Ismail has drinks distributed before Chaldiran.

f131b. The Battle of Çaldıran, 1514.

f140a. Timurid prince Badî' al-Zamân b. Husain Mirzâ with Sultan Selim I.

f156a. Selim I Discusses the Second Azerbaijani Expedition with his Divan.

f?. The Battle of Tekiryaylağı, 1515.

f164b. The Battle of Turnadağ against Bozkurt of Dulkadir, 1515

f193b. The Battle of Koçhisar, 1516

f216b. The Battle of Marj Dabiq, 1516

f231b. Ottomans battle Mamluk Arab cavalry

f235a. Ottomans besieging the Mamluks in Damascus, 1521.

f254a. The port of Alexandria during the Egyptian Expedition.

f264a. The Celali revolt.

f267a. Selim I on his deathbed.

Note that many Ottoman, Mamluk & Persian cavalry have no apparent armour, even though some appear to have armoured horses. Armour would be worn under robes.

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Turkish epic poem on the heroic deeds of Sultan Selim ibn Bayazid (reigned 1512-1521), who overcame the Persians and conquered Egypt. It was composed shortly after his death, by one of his retainers, the Kurdish Emir Shukri Bey Bitlisi, on commission from Selim's son Suleiman, whom the Europeans call the Magnificent.
Source: google arts and culture.