Nusretname
Construction works at the castle of Kars, Nusretname (1582), British Library Add. 22011, f.198v | |
| Author | Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali |
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Publication date | 1582-1584 |
The Nusretname or Nusratnama (Ottoman Turkish: نصرتنامه Nuṣretnāme, "Book of victory") was an Ottoman account of the campaigns of Lala Mustafa Pasha in the Caucasus, Georgia and Shirvan in 1578–1580, at the onset of the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590).[1] The first copy was created in 1582 in Aleppo by the Ottoman bureaucrat Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali (Muṣṭafa ʿĀlī, d. 1600), during the reign of Murad III, and a second more lavish copy was created at the court in Istanbul in 1584.[2]
British Library, Add. 22011 (1582)
A first copy of the Nusretname was completed by Muṣṭafa ʿĀlī in the winter of 1580-81, while he was in post in Aleppo. This early copy is now in the British Library: Nuṣretnāme (The British Library, Add. 22011). It has six paintings, and is dated 1582.[3]
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Ottoman army at Tiflis in the autumn of 1578. Nusretname ff.81v-82r
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Nusretname (1582) f.98
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Lala Mustafa Pasha in camp after his victory at Kars. Nusretname f.199r
Topkapi, H.1365 (1584)
When Muṣṭafa ʿĀlī presented his work to Sultan Murad III in Istanbul, the Sultan was highly impressed, and requested an even more lavish copy to be made. This copy is now in the Topkapi Palace: Nusretname (Topkapi, H.1365), dated 1584.[4] It has 48 illustrations, including 8 double-page illustrations, with illuminated margins throughout the manuscript.[5] This second copy was also created under the supervision of Muṣṭafa ʿĀlī, and was made in the Ottoman palace workshop.[6]
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An auspicious star before the Ottoman-Safavid war
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Departure of the Ottoman army for the war under Lala Mustafa Pasha, parading before Osman Pasha (عثمان باشا)
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Banquet given by Lala Mustafa Pasha to the Jannissaries in Izmit in 1578
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The assassination of Adil Giray Khan and Khayr al-Nisa Begum
Related works
Several major Ottoman illustrated manuscripts were created to relate the war against the Safavids, such as the Nuṣretnāme ("Book of Victory") of the Ottoman bureaucrat Muṣṭafa ʿĀlī (d. 1600) detailing the campaigns of Lālā Muṣṭafa Paşa, the Şecāʿatnāme ("Book of Valor") of Āsafī Dal Meḥmed Çelebi (d. 1597–98) and the Tārīh-i ʿOsmān Paşa ("History of ʿOsmān Paşa") by an anonymous author reporting the campaigns of Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha (d. 1585), governor of Şirvān.[7]
References
- ^ Volume 26 (1987) Prisoner Imagery In Safavid Textiles. The Textile Museum. 1987. p. 16.
- ^ "From Provincial Chronicle to Grand Imperial Manuscript: The Making of the "Nusretname"". UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
- ^ Uluç 2013, p. 799 "Ali completed the Nusretname shortly after the end of the campaign, in his next post in Aleppo during the winter of 1580-81. There, he commissioned local artists to produce an illustrated copy of his book. In modern scholarship the copy produced locally at Aleppo is generally accepted to be an illustrated copy of the work dated 990 H./1582 and preserved at the British Library in London (Add. 22011)."
- ^ Uluç 2013, pp. 799–800.
- ^ Uluç 2013, p. 800.
- ^ Uluç 2013, p. 803 "When Murad III ordered a royal copy of Mustafa Ali's Nusretname to be prepared in the Ottoman palace workshop, Ali himself was assigned to oversee the production of the manuscript."
- ^ Taner, Melis (2020). "Illustrated Manuscripts Attributed to Baghdad". Caught in a whirlwind: a cultural history of Ottoman Baghdad as reflected in its illustrated manuscripts. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 31, note 53. ISBN 978-9004412699.
Sources
- Uluç, Lâle (2013). "The representation of the execution of the Safavid Begum from the Ottoman Historian Mustafa Ali's Nusretname". 14th International Congress of Turkish Art Proceedings (PDF). Paris: Collège de France. pp. 799–820. ISBN 978-9751736970.