Index of the maps contained in “Piri Reis Baḥriyye: Ms Diez A Isl. 87"
Object identifier ARC_684
Type Item
Titles
- Title
- Index of the maps contained in “Piri Reis Baḥriyye: Ms Diez A Isl. 87"
- Type
- supplied title
Description
- Index of the maps contained in “Piri Reis Baḥriye: Ms Diez A Isl. 87 (=Pertsch, 184)”. The Ms Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Diez A. Foliant nr. 57 preserves a version of Pīrī Re’īs's "Kitāb-i Baḥriyye" (dated 932/1526). The copy was acquired in Istanbul by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in 1789, (supposedly destroyed during World War II but is safely in the collection), and copied beginning of seventeenth century. It contains 50 maps.
Publication notes
- Publication notes
- «Pīrī Re’īs Baḥrīje. Das türkische Segelhandbuch für das Mittelländische Meer Vom Jahre 1521, herausgegeben, übersetzt und erklärt von Paul Kahle», vol. 1: Text. «Lieferung, Kapitel 1-28»; vol. 2: «Übersetzung», Berlin-Leipzig 1926.
Languages
- German
Medium
- paper
Archivistic typology and Extent
- Extent
- 12
- Archivistic typology
- leaf/leaves
Dimensions in mm
- Height
- 297
- Width
- 210