[MGSA-L] Views of Constantinople: The Freshfield Album

Christos D. Katsetos cd_katsetos at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 31 14:02:53 PST 2015


Views of Constantinople: The Freshfield Album (Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK).
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/rare-sights-16th-century-constantinople
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/views-of-constantinople-the-freshfield-album-online/
 "The Freshfield Album: 21 sketches, in watercolour and ink, of public buildings and monuments in Constantinople, bound in vellum (c. 1574).Drawn by a German-speaking artist in 1574 with captions in Latin referring to Pierre Gilles, De topographia Constantinopoleos. Possibly the work of the Flemish artist Lambert de Vos; an earlier suggestion was Stefan Gerlach, chaplain to David Ungnad, imperial envoy of the Emperor Maximilan II to Constantinople (see Freshfield, ‘Notes on a Vellum Album’). Acquired in the nineteenth century by Edwin Freshfield, father of the donor Hanson Freshfield, member of Trinity College, Cambridge, 17 June 1935."
http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/james/viewpage.php?index=1712
Bibliography [selected]

Freshfield, E. H., ‘Notes on a Vellum Album containing some original sketches of public buildings and monuments, drawn by a German artist who visited Constantinople in 1574’, Archaeologia, 71 (1922), 87-104, plates xv-xxiii.
Freshfield, E. H., ‘Some Sketches made in Constantinople in 1574’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 30 (1930), 519-22, plate ii.
http://trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk/james/viewpage.php?index=1712
(Excerpted from Trinity College Library blog. For 'Fair Use' and educational purposes only) 

N.B. The depiction of two young rhinoceroses from Abyssinia (Ethiopia)* in two of the aforementioned sketches brings to mind George Baloglou's scholarly treatise (jointly with Nick Nicholas) titled _An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds -- Translation and Commentary_, Columbia University Press, June 2003http://www.oswego.edu/~baloglou/quadrupeds/poem.html

[*]  The young animals were likely destined for the Sultan's menagerie in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Interestingly, the date December 23rd, 1574 marked the death of Sultan Selim II who succeeded by his son Murat III.  Background music by 
Dimitri Kandemiroglu (Cantemir)|,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcDk2UxiO2A

Bûselik uşūleş
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSI-nxm3iQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS6i8Fkcd8Y

Ottoman Baroque music - Peşrev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnSd33O5_f8

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