| For illustrations of H.2153 see: M.S.
Ipsiroglu, Masterpieces from the Topkapi Museum,
London, 1980, no. 37;
Rogers, Cagman and Tanindi, The Topkapi Saray
Museum. The albums and illustrated manuscripts,
London, 1986, no. 104-106;
E.J. Grube, 'Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul. The
evolution of a pictorial style', in R.H.
Pinder-Wilson (ed ),
Paintings from Islamic lands, Oxford, 1969;
Colloquy on the Siyah Qalem Albums in the Topkapi
Palace Museum, Islamic Art I, New York, 1981.
The illuminated shamsa above -the drawing is
similar in its motifs and colors to those found
in manuscripts commissioned for the patron
Sultans Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II.
Compare with a double folio frontispiece
illuminated in Edirne some years earlier, see The
Anatolian Civilizations III, Seljuk Ottoman,
Istanbul, 1983, no. E. 2, p.107.
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