OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 16TH CENTURY

This illustration, which shows the angel Israfil with another unidentified angel, is very similar to another depicting an angel sounding a trumpet on the Day of Judgement in the Harvard Art Museums (Obj. no. 1956.196). Both folios are probably from the same manuscript which could be the Ahval-i Kiyamet. The text, which concerns the end of the world and subsequent events, was popular in the Ottoman domains in the late 16th and 17th centuries.