”Levni’s pictorial narrative of the Surname-i Vehbi, poet Vehbi’s account of the festival organized in 1720 to commemorate the circumcision of four sons of Sultan Ahmad III, is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of Ottoman art and possibly the last great example of illustrated manuscript. Preserved in the Topkapi Saray museum in Istanbul, the work is illustrated with 137 paintings that re-create the personages, settings, and events of an extaordinarily lively and enchanting age known as the Tulip Period.“
("Levni and the Surname, the Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival", door Esin Atil,
ISBN 975-6845-03-1)

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