ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror Frontispiece
From the portrait by Gentile Bellini in the Layard Collection
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A Stamboul street 5
From an etching by Ernest D. Roth
Divan Yolou 9
A house in Eyoub 11
A house at Aya Kapou 12
The house of the pipe 13
That grape-vine is one of the most decorative elements of Stamboul streets 21
A waterside coffee-house 23
“Drinking” a nargileh 26
Fez-presser in a coffee-house 27
Playing tavli 29
The plane-tree of Chengel-kyöi 31
The yard of Hekim-zadeh Ali Pasha 35
“The Little Mosque” 37
From an etching by Ernest D. Roth
Entrance to the forecourt of Sultan Baïezid II 40
Detail of the Süleïmanieh 41
Yeni Jami 43
Tile panel in Rüstem Pasha 50
The mihrab of Rüstem Pasha 51
In Rüstem Pasha 52
Tiles in the gallery of Sultan Ahmed 53
The tomb of Sultan Ahmed I 57
In Roxelana’s tomb 59
The türbeh of Ibrahim Pasha 63
The court of the Conqueror 64
The main entrance to the court of Sokollî Mehmed Pasha 65
The interior of Sokollî Mehmed Pasha 67
The court of Sokollî Mehmed Pasha 69
Doorway in the medresseh of Feïzoullah Effendi 70
Entrance to the medresseh of Kyöprülü Hüsseïn Pasha 71
The medresseh of Hassan Pasha 72
St. Sophia 77
From an etching by Frank Brangwyn
The Myrelaion 83
The House of Justinian 86
The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus 90
Interior of the Studion 93
Kahrieh Jami 97
Mosaic from Kahrieh Jami: Theodore Metochites offering his church to Christ 98
Mosaic from Kahrieh Jami: the Massacre of the Innocents 101
Giotto’s fresco of the Massacre of the Innocents, in the Arena chapel, Padua 101
Mosaic from Kahrieh Jami: the Marriage at Cana 104
The Golden Gate 109
Outside the land walls 111
A last marble tower stands superbly out of the blue 112
The Golden Horn 115
From the Specchio Marittimo of Bartolommeo Prato
Lighters 118
Sandals 119
Caïques 121
Sailing caïques 122
Galleons that might have sailed out of the Middle Ages anchor there now 123
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus 125
From a Persian miniature in the Bibliothèque Nationale
The mihrab of Pialeh Pasha 131
Old houses of Phanar 133
The outer court of Eyoub 135
Eyoub 137
The cemetery of Eyoub 141
Kiat Haneh 145
Lion fountain in the old Venetian quarter 153
Genoese archway at Azap Kapou 155
The mosque of Don Quixote and the fountain of Sultan Mahmoud I 165
Interior of the mosque of Don Quixote 167
The admiral’s flag of Haïreddin Barbarossa 169
Drawn by Kenan Bey
Grande Rue de Pera 180
The Little Field of the Dead 181
The fountain of Azap Kapou 183
Fountain near Galata Tower 185
The Kabatash breakwater 187
Fresco in an old house in Scutari 191
The Street of the Falconers 199
Fountain in the mosque yard of Mihrîmah 201
Tiles in the mosque of the Valideh Atik 203
Chinili Jami 204
The fountains of the Valideh Jedid 205
Interior of the Valideh Jedid 207
The Ahmedieh 209
Shemsi Pasha 211
The bassma haneh 213
Hand wood-block printing 215
The Bosphorus from the heights of Scutari 217
Gravestones 221
Scutari Cemetery 223
In a Turkish garden 230
A Byzantine well-head 232
A garden wall fountain 233
A jetting fountain in the garden of Halil Edhem Bey 235
A selsebil at Kandilli 236
A selsebil of Halil Edhem Bey 237
In the garden of Ressam Halil Pasha 239
The garden of the Russian embassy at Büyük Dereh 241
The upper terrace of the French embassy garden at Therapia 243
The Villa of the Sun, Kandilli 249
An eighteenth-century villa at Arnaout-kyöi 252
The golden room of Kyöprülü Hüsseïn Pasha 253
In the harem of the Seraglio 261
The “Cage” of the Seraglio 263
A Kara-gyöz poster 271
Wrestlers 275
The imperial cortège poured from the palace gate 281
From a drawing by E. M. Ashe
Baïram sweets 289
The open spaces of the Mohammedan quarters are utilised for fairs 295
Sheep-market at Yeni Jami 299
Church fathers in the Sacred Caravan 305
Housings in the Sacred Caravan 306
The sacred camel 307
The palanquin 308
Tied with very new rope to the backs of some thirty mules ... were the quaint little hair trunks 309
A Persian miniature representing the death of Ali 311
Valideh Han 313
Blessing the Bosphorus 321
The dancing Epirotes 325
Bulgarians dancing 336
Greeks dancing to the strains of a lanterna 337
The mosque and the Greek altar of Kourou Cheshmeh 348
Wall fountain in the Seraglio 354
Selsebil in Bebek 355
The goose fountain at Kazlî 356
The wall fountain of Chinili-Kyöshk 357
Shadrîvan of Kyöprülü Hüsseïn Pasha 359
Shadrîvan of Ramazan Effendi 360
Shadrîvan of Sokollî Mehmed Pasha 361
The Byzantine fountain of Kîrk Cheshmeh 365
The two fountains of Ak Bîyîk 368
Street fountain at Et Yemez 371
Fountain of Ahmed III in the park at Kiat Haneh 373
Detail of the fountain of Mahmoud I at Top Haneh 374
Fountain of Abd ül Hamid II 375
Sebil behind the tomb of Sultan Mehmed III 377
Sebil of Sultan Ahmed III 379
Cut-Throat Castle from the water 384
The castle of Baïezid the Thunderbolt 385
The north tower of the castle 387
The village boatmen and their skiffs 397
In the market-place 399
Badge of the revolution: “Liberty, Justice, Fraternity, Equality” 405
Cartoon representing the exodus of the Palace camarilla 412
Soldiers at Chatalja, April 20 428
Macedonian volunteers 437
A Macedonian Blue 439
Taxim artillery barracks, shelled April 24 441
They were, in fact, reserves posted for the afternoon attack on Tash Kîshla 443
Burial of volunteers, April 26 446
Deputies leaving Parliament after deposing Abd ül Hamid, April 27 447
Mehmed V driving through Stamboul on his accession day, April 27 451
Mehmed V on the day of sword-girding, May 10 453
Arriving from Asia 460
Reserves 461
Recruits 462
Hand in hand 463
Demonstration in the Hippodrome 465
Convalescents 480
Stuck in the mud 482
The aqueduct of Andronicus I 484
Fleeing from the enemy 485
Cholera 498
Joachim III, Patriarch of Constantinople 501
The south pulpit of the Pantocrator 503
Portrait of John VII Palæologus as one of the Three Wise Men, by Benozzo Gozzoli. Riccardi Chapel, Florence 505
Church of the All-Blessed Virgin (Fetieh Jami) 515
The lantern-bearers 517
The dead Patriarch 519
Exiles 523
Lady Lowther’s refugees 526
Peasant embroidery 532
Young Thrace 533
CONSTANTINOPLE OLD AND NEW
I, a Persian and an Ispahani, had ever been accustomed to hold my native city as the first in the world: never had it crossed my mind that any other could, in the smallest degree, enter into competition with it, and when the capital of Roum was described to me as finer, I always laughed the describer to scorn. But what was my astonishment, and I may add mortification, on beholding, for the first time, this magnificent city! I had always looked upon the royal mosque, in the great square at Ispahan, as the most superb building in the world; but here were a hundred finer, each surpassing the other in beauty and in splendour. Nothing did I ever conceive could equal the extent of my native place; but here my eyes became tired with wandering over the numerous hills and creeks thickly covered with buildings, which seemed to bid defiance to calculation. If Ispahan was half the world, this indeed was the whole. And then this gem of cities possesses this great advantage over Ispahan, that it is situated on the borders of a beautiful succession of waters, instead of being surrounded by arid and craggy mountains; and, in addition to its own extent and beauty, enjoys the advantage of being reflected in one never-failing mirror, ever at hand to multiply them.... “Oh! this is a paradise,” said I to those around me; “and may I never leave it!”
—J. J. Morier, “The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan.”