Folia archeologica 31.

Gerelyes Ibolya: Török szíjgyártók és nyergesek Budán a XVI. században

276 I. GERELYES horse-furniture. The fact that stirrups, bridles, spurs, curry-combs and mittens for dressing down horses were found in his workshop points to this direction. These items must be regarded as articles of merchandise, for the saddler Dur Ali had no horses of his own. Finished sheepskin, named mesin, and sole leathers, named keszele, figuring again and again in customs' registers of Buda, were found also in the stock of the workshop. This latter item points to the fact that Dur Ali might have been an expert in shoemaking, producing and selling footgear. At several places in the inventory namely slippers are mentioned in diverse values, in total not less than 40 pairs of them! The fact that e.g. in the case of 16th and 17th century saddles the attribution to Turkish or Hungarian craftsmen is sometimes very difficult, indicates a strong influence of Turkish masters in Hungary and a general use of Turkish arms, horsefurniture and saddles. The concluding part of this study will examine the Turkish saddles in the Hungarian National Museum from this point of wiew.