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Emese PÁSZTOR - Márta TÓTH - Anikó PATAKI - Andrea VÁRFALVI: Turkish Cases from the Esterházy Treasury

holder' and 'Two case holders, one case / Two arrow holders, full of arrows'. Tiidos S., Kinga, Székely főnemesi életmód a XVII. század alkonyán. Bukarest - Kolozsvár, 1998, pp. 223,224,231. 4 In 1622, Gábor Bethlen had '6 covers for cases' and '6 covers for arrows' (i.e. protective covers) brought from Istanbul for his own use. Radvánszky, Béla, Udvartartások és számadáskönyvek, 1: Bethlen Gáborfejedelem udvartartása. Budapest, 1888 (hereinafter: Radvánszky 1888), p. 57. 5 Simple bow-case and arrow-case holders of this kind made from embossed leather have survived in the 'Tiirkenbeute' collection at Karlsruhe's Badisches Landesmuseum. Together with many other artefacts, among them cases, they were taken as trophies of war during the battles against the Turks in Hungary in the years before 1691 (Petrasch, Ernst - Sanger, Reinhard - Zimmermann, Eva - Majer, Hans Georg, Die Karlsruher Türkenbeute. Die „Türckische Kammer" des markgrafen Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden. Die „Tückischen Curiositaeten" der Markgrafen von Baden-Durlach. München, 1991 (hereinafter: Petrasch - Sänger - Zimmermann Majer 1991), pp. 255-260, cat. 210-217). Also, the collection of the Esterházy princes in Fraknó (Forchtenstein) Castle holds a red leather bow-case holder from the late seventeenth century embellished with embossed perpendicular strips, along with the bow-case for it. (

Bollwerk Forchtenstein. Burgenländische Landesausstellung. (Burgenländische Forschungen, Sonderband XI). Hrg.: Jakob Michael Perschy (et al.). Eisenstadt, 1993 (hereinafter: Cat. Forchtenstein 1993), colour plates Raum VIII, bottom right-hand picture). 6 Radvánszky 1986, II, p. 287, no. 122 7 The most significant ensembles of booty taken from the Turks are the collections of John Sobieski in Cracow, of Charles of Lorraine in Innsbruck, of Augustus the Strong in Dresden, of Louis of Baden in Karlsruhe, of Maximilian Emanuel in Ingolstadt, and of Carl Gustav Wrangel and Nils Bielke in Skokloster (in Sweden). With regard to the Hungarian collections, Turkish cases which were originally booty passed into the onetime Batthyány-Strattmann collection at Körmend and into the Esterházy collection at Fraknó. 8 Inv. nos. G. 11,15, 16 and D 102, 103. Petrasch Sänger - Zimmermann - Majer 1991, pp. 253-255, cat. 205-209. 9 Inv. no. D 99; 101. Petrasch - Sänger - Zimmermann - Majer 1991, pp. 241,243,244, cat. 192-193. 10 For a skófium-e.mbroidered leather case ensemble together with bow and arrows, see inv. XIV, 213 and 575; Cracow, Muzeum Narodowe, Zbiory Czartoryskich. Odsiecz Wiedenska 1683. Wystawa jubileuszowa w Zamku Królewskim na Wawelu w trzechsetlecie bitwy. Kraków, 1990 (hereinafter: Odsiecz Wiedenska 1683). Vol. I, pp. 306-307, cat. 570, 574; vol. II, fig. 351. - For a case ensemble embellished with silver-gilt sheet applique, see Cz^stochowa, Jasna Góra Pauline monastery. Odsiecz Wiedenska 1683. Vol. I, p. 305, cat. 567; vol. II, fig. XXII. 11 For pictures of the cases, see Cat. Forchtenstein 1993, p. 215, no. 15 and colour plates, Raum VIII, bottom left-hand fig. - For the Turkish collection in the Esterházy Treasury, including material that was originally booty, see Pásztor, Emese, 'Die osmanisch-türkischen Objekte in der Esterházy-Schatzkammer'. In: Mraz, Gerda - Galavics, Géza (Hrsg.), Von Bildern und anderen Schätzen: die Sammlungen der Fürsten Esterházy. Wien - Köln - Weimar, 1999, pp. 83-99. 12 The 'Tiirkenbeute' collection in Karlsruhe holds a more decorated 'everyday' arrow-case that has a leather front side embroidered with skófium (no. G 12. Petrasch - Sänger - Zimmermann - Majer 1991, pp. 248, 250251, cat. 20 land figs.). 13 For a velvet-covered, skófium-tmbToidzizd. case ensemble in the Karlsruhe 'Tiirkenbeute' collection, see nos. D 93, 97. Petrasch - Sänger - Zimmermann - Majer 1991, pp. 245-246, cat. 195-196 and ills.- A case from the late seventeenth century probably from the Batthyány collection - an artefact covered in red velvet and embellished with leather appliqué embroidered with silver skófium - is kept by the Museum of Military History. Batthyányak évszázadai. Edited by Mónika Zsámbéky. Szombathely - Körmend, 2005, p. 74, cat. III. 69. 14 For cases from the late seventeenth century that were embellished, on a velvet ground, with thin leather appliqué and skófium embroidery, see nos. D 96, 100, G 106