Today’s Lecture Topkapi Palace Trip

ANNOUNCEMENTS ASSIGNMENT FOR CASALE READING DUE THIS WEDNESDAY CLASS TRIP TO A TALK AT ORIENT-INSTITUTE, CİHANGİR Talk in Turkish on history of Ottoman Reading Meeting in front of Science Gate to take the Shuttle at 5.15

Weekend of the medrese students, Album of Ahmed I, seventeenth century

Topkapı Palace, view from the Bosphorus

Review: Why did Mehmed II build a second palace?

Review: What were major uses of each of the three courts?

Review: What were the uses of the first court? Lokman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), ca. 1587-88, Topkapı Palace Library, H1524

Review: What is the significance of the foundation inscription on this gate?

Reception ceremony of an Austrian embassy at the first court From the Lewenklau Album, ca. 1586 Ms. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 8115

Safavid embassy bringing wild animals as gifts to Topkapı, Şehnâme-i Nâdirî, Seventeenth century

Review: What is the significance of the military look of this gate Review: What is the significance of the military look of this gate? Topkapı Palace Second/Middle Gate

Review: What kinds of issues were discussed in the divan Review: What kinds of issues were discussed in the divan? Who were the members of the divan? Did the Sultan attend the meetings at the council hall? A public council meeting at the second court from Lokman, Hünername, (Book of Skills) ca. 1587-88, Topkapı Palace Library, H1524, fol. 237v.

Imperial public council and Ceremonies in the second court from Lokman, Hünername, (Book of Skills), ca. 1587-88, Topkapı Palace Library, H1524, fol. 18v

The banquet of the Austrian ambassador at the public Council Hall in 1628 from Teply, Die kasierliche Grossbotschaft an Sultan Murad ıv, p. 120-21

Review: What were some of the major ceremonial uses of the second court? A parade of horses in the second court, from Ohsson, Tableau général de l’Empire othoman, 7 vols. (Paris: 1787-1824).

Third gate, or Gate of Felicity, with the royal portico

Review: What were some of the uses of this room Review: What were some of the uses of this room? Chamber of petitions (interior)

Safavid Embassy presenting gifts to Selim II from Lokman, Hünername, ca. 1587-88, Topkapı Sarayı Kütüphanesi, H1524

Sultan Süleyman with Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa Süleymanname of Arifi transcribed in 1558 Topkapı Palace Library, H. 1517, 360a

Recruitment of Children (devşirme) from Arifi, Süleymanname, (Book of Süleyman), ca. 1558 Topkapı Palace Library, H 1517

Janissary recruits (acemi oğlanlar) playing musical instruments, from Johannes Lewenklaw’s history, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Codex Vindobonesis 8615, dating from 1586

Review: How did the portico and the contents of the inner treasury represent Mehmed II’s eclectic interests? Third court (exterior view, front)

Portraits of Sultan Mehmed II Left: anonymous, Topkapı Palace Library, ca. 1480 Right: by Gentile Bellini,1480, London, National Gallery.

Review: What is the political significance of the kiosks in the palace Review: What is the political significance of the kiosks in the palace? Bağdat Köşkü

Sultan Selim in his library and riding with court from his Divan, İstanbul Üniversitesi Ktp, dating from c. 1520.

Entertainment at the Palace from Dîvân-i Nâdirî, seventeenth century

Harem, aerial view

Portrait of Bayezıd II (left) and Selim I (right) Şema’ilname, (Book of Features) 1579.