Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis 6. (1969)

Fehérvári Géza: Az „Egri Fetihnáme” az isztanbuli Topkapi Szeráj Múzeumban

records the stage at which the battle commenced with an artillery duel. The Turkish army is shown to the left with the Sultan in the centre, Janissaries in front of him and the Turkish artillery in the front line on the western bank of the river. The Christian army is depicted to the right. According to Christian sources, the Transylvanians were in the first line, and the German cavalry in the second, while the bulk of their artillery was placed in the centre at a certain ..puszta" church, where there was a ford on the river. The third miniature on folios 69 r and 70 v (fig

v 9) illustrates the Sultan's triumphant entry into Constantinople after his return from the successful Hungarian campaign. The picture initsatyle and composition reminds us of a number of illustrations from the Surname of Murad III and other contemporary MSS. The fourth miniature on folio 74 (fig. 10) is quite unique as it depicts the author Tacliqizade, the painter Hassan pasha, and the calligrapher (whose identity is not known), working on the manuscript. Thus the picture is an ..illustrated colophon", which is quite unique in Turkish painting, and is entirely absent from Persian painting. Three such examples are known from Meghűl painting. The „illustrated colophon" is alien in Turkish painting, but it is well-known that close contact existed at that time between Turkish and Italian painting. As Italian painters are known to have represented themselves on paintings, an Italian origin is indicated. The author Tacliqizade was head of the Shahnameji department between 1597 and 1601. in the text he claims to have completed the manuscript within a year, probably during the winter of 1597 98. The painter is probably identical with the famous Naqqash Hassan pasha, the celebrated court painter, who later on played important part in politics LONDON GÉZA FEHÉRVÁRI