Comments on: 1657 Ralamb Costume Book

1657 Ralamb Costume Book

mediareport — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:22:06 -0800

The Rålamb Costume Book. Illustrations of Turkish officials, various important occupations and just plain folks, obtained by Claes Rålamb, Swedish ambassador to the Ottoman Court, in 1657. More about Rålamb and Sultan Mehmet IV.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:24:03 -0800

Via Armchair Aquarium Annex.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:27:04 -0800

awesome. Thanks.

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:03:29 -0800

Nice post mediareport. One of the big city parks in Stockholm is called "rålambshov" - the court of Rålamb. I never knew who he was. Now I do. Pity the Turkish writers spelt his name wrong - Ralamb. The letter ö in the Turkish alphabet was taken from Swedish, so you'd think there wouldn't be a problem using other Swedish letters.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:07:27 -0800

This is wonderful! I live near Rålambshovsparken (the one three blind mice mentioned) and a street just parallel to mine is called Rålambsvägen, so I've looked him up (it's a curious name), but never to this extent. My afternoon is saved! Thank you, mediareport!

By: onhazier

onhazier — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:41:59 -0800

Can anyone explain why the Standard Bearer would have the pole go through his skin?

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:29:17 -0800

Wow, onhazier, I totally missed that.

By: Azaadistani

Azaadistani — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:00:04 -0800

Onhazier, I believe it was the penalty imposed due to his gratuitous corpulence. As standard bearer, he would have had an obligation to remain lean and attractive. I jest. Great post. Were the oil paintings of the hunting party/procession mentioned in one of the articles linked to? Does anyone know if they are available for online viewing? Thanks in advance.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:37:22 -0800

Cok guzel, mediareport! Tesekkur ederiz.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:17:31 -0800

Azaadistani, there's a book of the hunting party paintings (it also includes the costume book pictures), and a couple of tiny glimpses at the Pera Museum site. They belong to the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, but I don't read Swedish and only a teeny bit of the site is in English, so I couldn't find them there. soundsofsuburbia, if you or anyone else wants to dig around and post any results, that'd be cool. UbuRoivas: Yes, exactly! (I mean, is that Turkish? The translation site I found didn't recognize it.)

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:10:44 -0800

mediareport: cok = very, guzel = beautiful, tesekkur ederim / ederiz = thank you (there are supposed to be all sorts of umlauts, cedillas and other kinds of diacritical marks that I don't know how to type...their absence may have screwed up the online translation)