EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Janissaries. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.
EditorialTimur's envoy before Bayazid I (1401). Bayazid's retinue includes janissaries, 'azebs, kapicis and ulema. A miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of Mirkhvand's Rawzat al-Safa. Rawzat al-Safa. Turkey, 1599. Source: Or. 5736, f.172v. La...