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| 16th century? | A blue bell tent held by three people in the procession, purple flat top apex edge by alternate red and white strip, blue roof and walls (panels defined), red edge along bottom edge and flap edge, grey interior, red and white alternate roof edge decoration and a red pole. | “The entertainers of the sultan’s court were often Jewish. In another
page from the ‘Book of Festivals’ we see a procession going round the Hippodrome
of Istanbul (identified by the column and three - headed serpent); it includes
three Jews wearing the red hats already mentioned. Two of them are acting
as gaily caparisoned hobby-horses (66).”
Topkapi Saray Library III. (photos: Josephine Powell). |
Kedourie, E., Ed., The Jewish World, Revelation, Prophecy and History, London, 1979, p. 152. |
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