Transcriptions of 16th Century European Texts related to life in Istanbul

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Selections from various texts mentioning Ottoman embroidery. (I do embroidery myself, so these passages stuck out when I was reading...)

Selections from Nicolas de Nicolay (English edition, 1585)

Selections from The Order of the Great Turk's Court (1542 English edition). I am working on a version of the full text, but these sections dealing with Turkish society (as opposed to the staffing of the Court or Islamic religious beliefs) are ready to read...