Entrée principale:

Bon, Ottaviano, 1552-1623.

Titre et auteur:

The sultan's seraglio : an intimate portrait of life at the Ottoman court / Ottaviano Bon ; introduced and annotated by Godfrey Goodwin.

Publication:

London : Saqi Books, 1996.

Description:

165 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
"From the seventeenth-century edition of John [i.e. Robert] Withers."
Originally published: A description of the Grand Seignor's seraglio. London : J. Martin and J. Ridley, 1650.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154).
A note on spelling -- Introduction / by Godfrey Goodwin -- To his honoured, and truly noble friend, George Tooke, Esq. -- A description of the place, partitions, and manifold conveniences -- Of the divan days, judges, session, judicature, diet, and giving an account to the king of what hath passed -- Of the audience and entertainment given to ambassadors -- Of the persons which live in the seraglio; and chiefly of the women, and virgins -- Of the Agiamoglans, how taken, distributed, and imployed -- Of the king's Itchoglans, their severe discipline, and education in four subordinate schools; and of their after advancements -- Of inferior persons, as buffons, mutes, musicians; of the white eunuchs, and of the Grand Officers of the Seraglio -- Of the black eunuchs, and blackmoor girls, and women; of the physicians, and of the king's children -- Of the cooks, kitchens; diet of the king, queen, and others; of the manner of service of their scullery, and provision of the seraglio -- Of apparel, bedding, sickness, hospitals, inheritance, king's expences, recreations, his going abroad, receiving of petitions; of the king's stables, and Byram solemnities -- Of the old seraglio, and womens lives therein: of their marriages, and children: slave-selling, and witnesses -- Of their religion, opinions, clergymen, times, places, and rites sacred; and of the women's small devotion -- Notes / by Godfrey Goodwin -- Glossary.

ISBN:

0863560466 (pbk.)
9780863560460 (pbk.)
0863562159
9780863562150

Sujet:

Courts and courtiers.
Travel.
Hofcultuur.
Topkapi-paleis.
Turkey Court and courtiers Early works to 1800.
Turkey Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Asie Mineure Cours et courtisans Ouvrages avant 1800.
Turkey.

Classification/genre:

Early works.

Vedettes secondaires:

Withers, Robert.
Goodwin, Godfrey.
Bon, Ottaviano, 1552-1623. Description of the Grand Seignor's seraglio.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 192555
Cote: ID DR736.B64; ID:97-B3642
Statut: Disponible