Newberry Library, VAULT Ayer MS 612

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DS ID:

DS17714

Shelfmark:

VAULT Ayer MS 612

Title:

Tarih-i Yeni Dünya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev

Tarihi-i Hind-i Garbi

Date:

approximately 1600

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Material:

13 color illustrations, 3 color maps

Physical Description:

Extent: 107] leaves, bound, [6] leaves of plates : 13 color illustrations, 3 color maps ; 26 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

Cyrus Adler WIKIDATA

Note:

Text in Arabic "nesih" script, rubricated, within gold and black borders; illuminated head-piece is a gold cartouche on a lapis background decorated with gold, red, turqoise, and white flowers; on heavy yellowish glazed paper.
Thirteen color miniatures illustrate textual descriptions of native American flora and fauna, such as the coconut, guava, and banana trees, cochineal cactus, tapir, armadillo, bison, pelican, and jaguar; a landscape of the Peruvian town of Potosí, with its silver mountain; and two imaginary drawings of a merman, and a wak-wak tree, bearing fruit in the form of naked women. Cf. Goodrich.
Three double-page maps, oriented with the south at the top, illustrated in red, blue, black, white, and gold with small pictures of cities and sailing ships, and borders in gold and black. Includes two circular hemispheric maps (24 cm.) of the Old and New Worlds, and a rectangular mappa mundi (19 x 26 cm.), very similar to the one by J. Gastaldi in Geografiya di Claudio Ptolemeo (Venice, 1548).
First printed in Constantinople in 1730 by Ibrahim Müteferrika; reprinted in 1875 without the maps. Cf. Goodrich.
English translation of the Newberry ms. by Thomas D. Goodrich in Ottoman Turks and the New World: a study of Tarih-i Hind-i garbi and sixteenth-century Ottoman Americana. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1990.
Acquired by Edward E. Ayer in 1901 from Dr. Cyrus Adler.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Turkish

America

Early works

Discoveries in geography--Spanish

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Discoveries in geography

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991742248805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSFHTDKG

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library