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Inhabitants of Crimea.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Black Sea, Costume - Hats and headwear, Crimea, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jewellery, Professions, Soldiers, Ukraine, Weapons, Women

Tatars of Crimea.

Tags: Animals, Black Sea, Costume - Hats and headwear, Crimea, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Professions, Smoking, Soldiers, Tatars, Ukraine, Weapons

Scene from the author's journey from Saint Petersburg to Odessa.

Tags: Animals, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Houses, Human types, Nobility, Russia, Russians, Saint Petersburg, Travel, Writers

Title page.

Tags: Title page

Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in traveling costumes during their return journey to Europe (from Tripoli in Lebanon to Marseille, France).

Tags: Author portraits, Books, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hans Jacob Breüning, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Portraits, Travel, Weapons

Frontispiece of the fifth travel of Jacob Breuning, return to Europe.

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Jacob Breuning his companion Carlier de Pinon, and their escort, a local interpreter and a Janissary, on their way to Tripoli, Lebanon.

Tags: Animals, Arabs, Author portraits, Camels, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Horses, Interpreters and translators, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Lebanon, Portraits, Weapons

Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in Ottoman costumes at Tripoli, Lebanon. Also depicted their escorts, a local interpreter and a Janissary.

Tags: Arabs, Author portraits, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Lebanon, Portraits, Travel, Tripoli (Lebanon)

Map of Mesopotamia.

Tags: Maps, Mesopotamia

Frontispiece of the fourth travel of Jacob Breuning, in Palestine, Tripoli and Syria.

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Escutcheon of the House of Breuning von Buchenbach surrounded by emblems of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems

Emblem of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Τhe escutcheon with the full wheel is mostly carried by Knights of the Order that besides Jerusalem have made their pilgrim to Mount Sinai as well.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Palestine, Religious practices

Emblem of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tags: Coats of arms – Emblems, Monastic orders, Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Religious practices

Interior view of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In the foreground, a Turk charges the pilgrims their entrance to the church.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Charging of Entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Coins, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Religious practices, Scales, Turks

Jacob Breuning, his companion Carlier de Pinon and their guide on their trip from Egypt to Palestine. Jacob Breuning and his companion wear Ottoman costumes, yet their hats are similar to those of Christian pilgrims. In the same context, their guide carries a pilgrim as well as a rosario.

Tags: Author portraits, Cedar trees, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Mount Sinai, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Plants, Portraits, Religious practices, Travel

Frontispiece of the third travel of Jacob Breuning, from Egypt to Palestine.

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Pilgrims inscriptions on Mount Sinai, Egypt.

Tags: Egypt, Inscriptions, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices

View of Mount Sinai with Saint Catherine's Monastery, as well as other monasteries and chapels.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Modes of transport, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Natural environment, Pilgrimages, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Travel, Views

Moses' rock on Mount Sinai.

Tags: Biblical figures, Egypt, Moses, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Rock of Moses (Mount Sinai), Views

Rock from the ossuary in Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, Egypt, on which the figure of Saint Cathrine is sketched.

Tags: Egypt, Monasteries, Mount Sinai, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai)

Jacob Breuning, his companion Carlier de Pinon, and their escorts on their way to Mount Sinai.

Tags: Animals, Arabs, Author portraits, Cairo, Camels, Children, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Horses, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Travel, Weapons

Jacob Breuning, his companion Carlierde Pinon, and their escorts setting off to Mount Sinai (from Cairo).

Tags: Animals, Arabs, Author portraits, Cairo, Camels, Children, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Tents, Travel, Weapons

Chameleons from Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Chameleons, Egypt, Natural environment

Rendering of the lost painting of the Calumny of Apelles.

At the centre of the composition a man seated on a throne is surrounded by the figures of Ignorance(Ignorantia) and Suspicion (Suspicio). He is approached by Calumny (Calumnia), who is dragging with her a bedraggled man supposed to represent Envy…

Tags: Allegories, Andrea Mantegna, Apelles, Art and antiquities, Calumny of Apelles

Embalmed tapir from South America, seen by Jacob Breuning in Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Egypt, Natural environment, Tapir (Tapirus)

The embalmed serpent seen by Jacob Breuning in Cairo, which at the time was shown as specimen of a "flying serpent".

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Egypt, Imaginary beings, Natural environment, Reptiles

View of the Giza Pyramids. View of the Spinx.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Giza, Giza necropolis, Pyramids, Pyramids of Egypt, Sphinx (Egypt)

Mummies from Giza, Egypt.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Funerary practices, Giza, Giza necropolis, Mummies

Genet that Jacob Breuning Saw at the castle of Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Egypt, Genet (Genetta), Natural environment

Bovid of the Gazelle or Oryx genus, that Jacob Breuning saw at the castle of Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Bovids, Cairo, Egypt, Gazelles, Natural environment, Oryx

Bovid from Egypt, most probably of the genus Bos indicus or Zebu.

Tags: Animals, Bovids, Cairo, Egypt, Natural environment, Zebu (Bos indicus)

Giraffe that Jacob Breuning saw at the fortress of Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Egypt, Giraffes, Natural environment

Ottoman costumes that Jacob Βreuning and his companion του Carlier de Pinon wore in Istanbul and Egypt. On Janissary costumes their guides.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Hans Jacob Breüning, Janissaries, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Portraits, Travel

Lizard from Cairo region. Fish of the Nile.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Egypt, Fish, Lizards and skinks, Natural environment, Turbot / Psetta maxima

Crocodiles from Cairo region.

Tags: Animals, Cairo, Crocodiles, Egypt, Natural environment

Vatican Nile.

Tags: Allegories, Art and antiquities, Italy, Roman antiquities, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican Nile (statue)

Chameleon from Egypt.

Tags: Alexandria, Animals, Chameleons, Egypt, Natural environment

Egyptian mongoose ( Herpestes Ichneumon).

Tags: Alexandria, Animals, Egypt, Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes Ichneumon), Natural environment

Civet in Alexandria.

Tags: Alexandria, Animals, Civets, Egypt, Natural environment

The Janissary and the interpreter that accompanied Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in their trip from Istanbul to Egypt. Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in costumes typical to Istanbul and Egypt.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Janissaries, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Travel

Costumes of Jewish people from Rhodes island, worn by Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon. On the left, their Jewish guide, Abraham.

Tags: Aegean islands, Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Jews, Portraits, Rhodes, Travel

Coats of arms of the Knights Hospitaller from the medieval city of Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Coats of arms – Emblems, Dodecanese, Greece, Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Rhodes

Costumes from the Ottoman capital, with "Armenian" turban, that Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon wore during their trip from Istanbul to Egypt.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hans Jacob Breüning, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Portraits, Turkey

Frontispiece of the second travel of Jacob Breuning (from Istanbul to Egypt).

Tags: Frontispieces, Title page

Plan of the columns of Yerebatan Cistern.

Tags: Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Basilica Cistern / Yerebatan Sarnıcı, Byzantine monuments, Istanbul, Plans and drawings, Thrace, Turkey

Inscriptions from the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Tags: Byzantine monuments, History, Inscriptions, Istanbul, Patriarchate of Constantinople, Thrace, Turkey

The Janissary and the interpreter that accompanied Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon around Istanbul. Jacob Breuning and his companion Carlier de Pinon in costumes typical to West European merchants in the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hans Jacob Breüning, Interpreters and translators, Istanbul, Janissaries, Jean Carlier de Pinon, Portraits, Thrace, Travel, Turkey

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