Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies, c. 1550–1700

This book explores the unprecedented Ottoman interest in illustrated cosmographies and their representation of the world and its inhabitants. It analyses fifteen illustrated manuscripts of four cosmographical texts on the Old and New Worlds (in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish) produced in the capital Istanbul and the Ottoman provinces of Egypt, Syria and Baghdad, c. 1550–1700.Overall, dozens of richly illustrated cosmographies were copied across the span of six hundred years, from the late t