European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos

Author(s): Ian Manners.

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Oriental Institute Museum Publications 27

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This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travelers and voyagers. The text is accompanied by images of illuminated manuscript charts and atlases, the earliest printed maps of the Ottoman Empire, and bird’s-eye views of cities that provided “arm-chair travelers” with the experience of knowing distant places.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
Foreword. Gil J. Stein
Preface. Geoff Emberling
Author's Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Exhibit. Ian Manners
Map of Europe and the Ottoman World, ca. 1600
European Cartographers and the Ottoman World
"Asia Propria" in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Ptolemaic Atlases
Ismaʾil Abu al-Fida
The Mediterranean Tradition of Charting
Mapping the City: Civitates Oris Terrarum
Through the Eyes of Travelers
Cartography and Geographial Consciousness in the Ottoman Empire. M. Pınar Emiralioğlu
Catalogue of Exhibited Maps, Atlases, and Travel Accounts