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European Cartographers and the Ottoman World 1500–1750: Maps oi.uchicago.edu EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD 1500–1750 oi.uchicago.edu Jan Vermeer van Delft (1632–1675). The Geographer. Courtesy of The Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Artothek oi.uchicago.edu EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD 1500–1750 MAPS FROM THE COLLECTION OF O. J. SOPRANOS IAN MANNERS with a contribution by M. PINAR EMI˙RALI˙OG˘LU THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO oi.uchicago.edu EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD Library of Congress Control Number: 2007935787 ISBN: 978-1-885923-53-0 ISBN: 1-885923-53-8 © 2007 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 2007. Printed in the United States of America. The Oriental Institute, Chicago Oriental Institute Museum Publications No. 27 This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos. Published by The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA oi.uchicago.edu Front Cover Illustration: Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Byzantivm nunc Constantinopolis. [1572]. From Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Back Cover Illustration: Abraham Ortelius. Tvrcici Imperii Descriptio. [1579]. From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. [Antwerp], 1602. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Cover Design: Hanau-Strain, Inc., Chicago This volume was made possible through the generous donation of the Dellenback Family Foundation. Printed by M&G Graphics, Chicago, Illinois. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Service — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 ∞ 4 oi.uchicago.edu EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Foreword. Gil J. Stein ................................................................................................................................... 11 Preface. Geoff Emberling ............................................................................................................................... 13 Author’s Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................... 15 Introduction to the Exhibit. Ian Manners .................................................................................................... 17 Map of Europe and the Ottoman World, ca. 1600 ...................................................................................... 19 European Cartographers and the Ottoman World ...................................................................................... 21 “Asia Propria” in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Ptolemaic Atlases ...................................... 25 Isma’il Abu al-Fida .................................................................................................................... 53 The Mediterranean Tradition of Charting .................................................................................................. 57 Mapping the City: Civitates Orbis Terrarum .................................................................................................. 67 Through the Eyes of Travelers ..................................................................................................................... 81 Cartography and Geographical Consciousness in the Ottoman Empire. M. Pınar Emiraliog˘lu ..................... 95 Catalogue of Exhibited Maps, Atlases, and Travel Accounts ....................................................................... 109 Endnotes ..................................................................................................................................................... 123 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................ 129 Checklist to the Exhibit .............................................................................................................................. 137 Index of Cartographers and Geographers ................................................................................................... 143 5 oi.uchicago.edu oi.uchicago.edu EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD LIST OF FIGURES Frontispiece. Jan Vermeer van Delft (1632–1675). The Geographer. The Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Artothek Figure 1. [Hajji Ahmed]. [A Complete and Perfect Map Describing the Whole World]. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 2. [Claudius Ptolemy]. Prima Asie Tabvla. 1486. From the Ulm printing of the Geographia by Johann Reger. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 3. Francesco di Nicolò Berlinghieri. Tabvla Prima de Asia. [1482]. From Berlinghieri’s Geographia printed in Florence by Nicolas Laurentii, Alamanus. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 4. Bernardus Sylvanus. Prima Asiae Tabvla. [1511]. From Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae …. Venetiis per Iacobum Pentium de leucho Anno domini M.D.XI. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 5. Lorenz Fries. Tabula noua Asiæ minoris. [1541]. From Clavdii Ptolemaei Alexandrini geographicae …. Excudebat Gaspar Treschel Viennae M.D.XLI. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 6. Giacomo Gastaldi. Totivs Illivs regionis qvam hodie Tvrcicam vocant nec non Persiæ regni exactissima descriptio. Antverpiae apvd Hieronymvm Cock. 1555. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany Figure 7. Giacomo Gastaldi. Il disegno della prima parte del Asia …. Venetia [Venice] 1559; and Il disegno della seconda parte dell’Asia …. Venetia [Venice] 1561. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 8. [Giacomo Gastaldi]. [Africa]. 1563. From [Giovanni Battista Ramusio], Delle Navigationi et Viaggi Raccolto da M. Gio. Batt. Ramvsio & con molti vaghi discorsi …. Primo volume, & Terza editione. Venetia [Venice]: Stamperia de Givnti. M.D.LXIII. The University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center Figure 9. [World Map]. From Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi [History of the India of the West]. Anonymous Ottoman manuscript, ca. 1600. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 10. Gerard de Jode. Tvrcia Tvrcicive Imperii seu Solij mannorum regni pleraque pars, nunc recens summa fide ac industria elucubrata. 1578. From Specvlvm Orbis Terrarvm. Antwerp. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 11. Abraham Ortelius. Tvrcici Imperii Descriptio. [1579]. From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. [Antwerp], 1602. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 12. Frederick de Witt. Tvrcicvm Imperivm. From Atlas maior. Amsterdam, 1680[?]. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 13. [Henricus Hondius]. Turcici Imperii Imago. From Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra. Primum à Gerardo Mercatore inchoatae, deinde a Iudoco Hondio Piae memoriae … Sumptibus & typis aeneis Henrici Hondij. Amsterdam, 1630. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 14. Pierre du Val. Carte de l’Empire des Tvrcs et de les contins. From Le Monde, ou, La Geographie universelle contenent les descriptions, les cartes & le blazon de principaux pays du monde. Paris, 1664. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 15. Herman Moll. The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa, Dividid into all its Governments, together with the other Territories that are Tributary to it, as also the Dominions of ye Emperor of Marocco. According to the Newest and most Exact Observations. London, 1720. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 16. Guillaume de L’Isle. Carte de la Turquie de l’Arabie et de la Perse. Dressée sur les Memoires les plus recens rectifiez par les Observations de Mrs. de l’Academie Royle des Sciences. Amsterdam: Chez Iean Cóvens et Corneille Mortier, 1745. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 17. Nicolas Sanson. Estats de l’Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turcs en Europe, en Asie, et en Afrique divisé en touts ses Beglerbeglicz, ou Gouvernements ou sont aussi remarqués les Estats qui luy sont Tributaires. Dressé sur les plus nouvelles relations … Par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe Ordinaire de Roy. From a Dutch counterfeit 7 oi.uchicago.edu EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHERS AND THE OTTOMAN WORLD edition of Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Toutes les Parties du Monde …. (Paris [i.e., Amsterdam]: H. Jaillot [i.e., Pierre Mortier], 1692 [i.e., 1695?]. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 18. Nicolas Sanson. Tables ou Divisions de l’Empire Turc … par le Sr. Sanson. From Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde …, Vol. 2. Paris: P. Mariette, 1658. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 19. Guillaume de L’Isle. Carte particuliere de la Hongrie, de la Transilvanie, de la Croatie, et de la Sclavonie, dressée sur les Observations de M r. le Comte Marsilli et sur plusieurs autre Memoires. Paris, 1717. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 20. Nicolas Sanson. Les Estats de l’Empire des Turqs en Asie. Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1652. The O. J. Sopranos Collection Figure 21. Nicolas Sanson. Estats de l’Empire des Turqs en Europe …. From [Atlas françois]. Paris: Chez le Sr. Iaillot …, 1700. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 22. [William Faden]. [The Western Mediterranean Sea]. From Cedid atlas tercümesi [Translation of the New Atlas]. Üsküdar [Istanbul]: Tab’hane-yi Humayun’da, sene 1218 [1803]. The Newberry Library, Chicago Figure 23. [Giovanni Battista Ramusio]. Tables of longitude and latitude of places mentioned by Marco
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