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Zafername or Tarih-i Sultan Süleyman, written by Seyyid Lokman, illustrated by Nakkas Osman, Ottoman, 1579AD. Ms. T 413, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

Mehmet Giray of the Crimean khanate crosses a river, from the History of Sultan Süleyman by Sayyid Luqman

Mehmet Giray of the Crimean khanate crosses a river. From the Tarih-i Sultan Süleyman (Zafername). Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (Inv. MS. 413, fol 82a).

A larger image of Mehmet Giray of the Crimean khanate crosses a river, from the History of Sultan Süleyman by Sayyid Luqman

From the Tarih-i Sultan Süleyman (Zafername). Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (Inv. MS. 413, fol 82a).

Mehmet Giray of the Crimean khanate crosses a river. Mehmet Giray (d. 1584) was the son of the Khan of Crimea. He fought under the Ottomans in Hungary in 1566 (as depicted here), and also led forces against Safavid Iran in later decades.

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