"Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers" Topic

In Armies of the Ottoman Turks, 1300-1774 by David Nicolle & Angus McBride, there is a black and white picture of the new 'Tufekci' infantry. It took me a while to find a coloured version: Ottoman Tüfekçi musketeers of Ken'an Paşa in a Pāshānameh, c. 1630. British Museum, Sloane 3584, folio 20a
it can be seen that they all wear a red fez, but their coats are variously red, blue, brown, etc.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Ottoman Costume & Soldiers

Very interesting – thanks for posting. You are on your own one of the best reasons for reading TMP!
C

Very helpful, thanks Druzhina. Just what I was looking for.

That's amazing Druzhina! Do you have more Pictures of this Pashanameh, or information about it?

wonderful. More color for my army!

Do you have more Pictures of this Pashanameh, or information about it?

Not much, there is 1 image on commons.wikimedia.
The manuscript was transferred from the British Museum to the British Library. The British Library doesn't seem to have a sponsored project to digitise its eastern manuscripts, but I was surprised to find Kitāb Na‛t al-ḥayawān, British Library, manuscript Or.2784., possibly painted in Baghdad, 13th century in the Qatar Digital Library, so more may turn up elsewhere.

I had the book it is from on inter-library loan, this is the only folio from that manuscript that was included.

Googling, I found: a paper with an abstract in English.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

Druzhina, have you seen this other paper ( link )? It has more miniatures from this album! (Although they are in Black and White)

Thanks Don Sebastian, those 3 miniatures from Add. 3584 plus the wikimedia image account for 4 of the 5 the other paper said the manuscript has.

Druzhina
17th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers