OTTOMAN TURKEY, PERIOD OF SULAYMAN II (R. 1687-91)

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AN OTTOMAN GENEALOGICAL SCROLL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, PERIOD OF SULAYMAN II (R. 1687-91)
Ottoman manuscript on burnished cream paper, with names in black naskh script often in green-outlined roundels, with larger text in red- outlined roundels, the lineage starting with Adam and the Abrahamic prophets, including the Islamic dynasties, the ancestors of the Prophet, the pre-Islamic prophets and the ancient Kings of Iran and terminating with Sultan Sulayman II, small losses to the paper at the beginning of the manuscript
379½ x 12¾in. (964 x 32cm.)

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Lot Essay

The names of the Sultans on this scroll are accompanied by notes giving the dates of the accession and death as well as details of their conquests.

A similar genealogical scroll in the Metropolitan Museum terminates with the reign of Mehmed IV (r. 1648-1687), the predecessor of Sülayman II (67.272; G. M. Meredith-Owens, 'A Genealogical Roll in the Metropolitan Museum', in Richard Ettinghausen (ed.), Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, pp 87-90). A slightly later dated scroll which terminates with the reign of Mustafa III (r. 1757-1774) was sold in Christie's's, London, 7 April 2011, lot 349.

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