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In a double…leaf illustration from a Book of Victories found in the quarters of

a young prince; which showed the funeral ceremonies of Sultan Süleyman the

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Magnificent who’d died during the siege of Szegetvar; we first examined the

chestnut  horse  with  a  white  blaze;  the  gazelle…eyed  gray  pulling  the  funeral

carriage  and  the  other  melancholy  horses  fitted  with  spectacular  saddle

blankets  and  gold  embroidered  saddles。  Butterfly;  Olive  and  Stork  had

illustrated all these horses。 Whether the horses were pulling the large…wheeled

funeral  carriage  or  standing  at  attention  with  watery  eyes  trained  on  their

master’s body covered with a red cloth; all stood with the same elegant stance

borrowed  from  the  old  masters  of  Herat;  that  is;  with  one  foreleg  proudly

extended and the other firmly planted on the ground beside it。 All their necks

were  long  and  curved;  their  tails  bound  up  and  their  manes  trimmed  and

bed; but none of the noses had the peculiarity we sought。 Neither was this

peculiarity  evident  in  any  of  the  hundreds  of  horses  that  bore  manders;

scholars  and  hojas;  who’d  participated  in  the  funeral  ceremony  and  now

stood  at  attention  on  the  surrounding  hilltops  in  honor  of  the  late  Sultan

Süleyman。

Something of the sadness of this melancholy funeral passed to us as well。 It

upset  us  to  see  that  this  illustrated  manuscript;  upon  which  Master  Osman

and his miniaturists labored so much; had been ill…treated; and that women of

the  harem;  playing  games  with  princes;  had  scribbled  and  marked  various

places  on  the  pages。  Beside  a  tree  under  which  Our  Sultan’s  grandfather

hunted; written in a bad hand were the words; “My Exalted Effendi; I love you

and  am  waiting  for  you  with  the  patience  of  this  tree。”  So;  it  was  with  our

hearts  full  of  defeat  and  sorrow  that  we  pored  over  the  legendary  books;

whose creation I’d heard about; but none of which I’d ever seen。

In the second volume of the Book of Skills; which had seen the brush strokes

of all three master miniaturists; we saw; behind the roaring cannon and the

foot soldiers; hundreds of horses of every hue including chestnuts; grays and

blues;  clattering  along  in  mail  and  full  panoply;  bearing  their  glorious

scimitar…wielding  spahi  cavalrymen;  as  they  crossed  over  pink  hilltops  in  an

orderly advance; but none of their noses was flawed。 “And what is a flaw after

all!”  Master  Osman  said  later;  while  examining  a  page  in  the  same  book;

which  depicted  the  Royal  Outer  Gate  and  the  parade  ground  where  we

happened to be at that very moment。 We also failed to discover the mark we

were  searching  for  on  the  noses  of  the  horses  of  various  hues  mounted  by

guards;  heralds  and  Secretaries  of  the  Divan  Council  of  State  in  this

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