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Tableau général de l'Empire othoman. Tome 3
par M. de Mouradgea d'Ohsson, c.1787
215. SOÏTARI, Bateleur.

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Soytarı (plate 215), a mountebank or buffoon, may be out of place here. The term is not in the index to volume three. Neither this nor other sources on military history acknowledge it. However, some dwarves attached to the inside service in the third court of Topcapı palace entertained the court as buffoons, and that may be what is depicted here.