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Elbicei Atika. Musée des Anciens Costumes Turcs de Constantinople, par Jean Brindesi

Plate 14

Cephane Karakullukçusu	Cephane Çorbacısı	Bostancı	Şatır
Djébéhané Cara-Coulouktchi	Djébéhané Tchorbadjissi	Bostandji	Chatir
Garde de la Salle des Armes	Colonel des Armuriers	Garde du Palais Impérial d'Andrinople	Coureur
Weapons Room Guard	Colonel of the Armorers	Guard of the Imperial Palace of Adrianople	Courier

Persons who were members of the novice camp were called bag boys or şadi because their names were written in a notebook kept inside the bag. They are dressed in green caftans and with a red belt. They are the messenger soldiers of the Novice Corps, who trained soldiers for the Janissary Corps, and the people who walk as protectors on both sides of the horse that the grand viziers ride on.
Source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü

A version from a set of Turkish postcards made in the 1950s.

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