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Ottoman Illustrations of Soldiers from the

Hünername ('Book of Skills') of 1588 by Lokman, Mss. Hazine 1523 & 1524

The Hünername is the largest and one of the finest illustrated works containing historical paintings from the Ottoman classical period. The manuscript, except for three, of its original forty-five illustrations, is now in the Topkap Saray Museum in Istanbul. It was completed by the court historian Loqman and copied by the calligrapher Sinan ibn Mehmed the Bosnian. Documentary evidence links the Ottoman court painter Osman and several other famous artists to the work. Individual paintings have not, however, been attributed to specific artists.


Hunername: Murat I Rests After a Triumph
Hunername: Assassination of Sultan Murad I.
Hunername: Bayezid I, "The Thunderbolt," Routs the Crusaders at the Battle of Nicopolis, 1396
Hunername: Siege of Belgrade, 1456, by Sultan Mehmed
Hunername: Murad II at target shooting with arrows
Hunername: Suleiman the Magnificent hunting with Foreign Envoys
Hunername: Sultan Süleyman undressing in the disrobing chamber of Topkapi Palace
Hunername: Siege of Belgrade, 1521
Hunername: Forces of Suleyman Besieging a Christian Fortress, 1524
Hunername: Cavalry units participating in the Battle of Mohacs, 1526
Hunername: Suleiman the Magnificent and the Battle of Mohacs, 1526
Hunername: Siege of Vienna by Suleyman I the Magnificent, 1529
Hunername: Moldavian Campaign, 1538
Hunername: Suleiman advances to besiege Szigetvár, 1566.
Hunername: Siege of Szigetvár, 1566
Hunername: Suleiman the Magnificent, taken ill during the Szigetvár Campaign, 1566



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