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European cartographers and the Ottoman world, 1500-1750 : maps from the collection of O.J. Sopranos / Ian Manners ; with a contribution by M. Pinar Emiralioğlu.

By: Manners, Ian RContributor(s): Emiralioğlu, M. Pinar | University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. MuseumMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Oriental Institute Museum publications ; no. 27.Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, 2007. Description: 144 p. : col. ill., maps (chiefly col., some folded) ; 30 cmISBN: 9781885923530; 1885923538Other title: Maps from the collection of O.J. SopranosSubject(s): Sopranos, O. J. -- Map collections -- Exhibitions | 1288-1918 | Cartography -- Europe -- History -- Exhibitions | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Exhibitions | Balkan Peninsula -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Exhibitions | Middle East -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Exhibitions | Africa, North -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- ExhibitionsGenre/Form: Exhibition catalogs | HistoryDDC classification: 912.56 LOC classification: GA781 | .M36 2007
Contents:
Foreword / Gil J. Stein -- Preface / Geoff Emberling -- 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 -- Isma'il Abu al-Fida -- The Mediterranean Tradition of Charting -- Mapping the City: Civitates Orbis Terrarum -- Through the Eyes of Travelers -- Cartography and Geographical Consciousness in the Ottoman Empire / M. Pinar Emiralioglu -- Catalogue of Exhibited Maps, Atlases, and Travel Accounts.
Summary: "This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, 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."--Pub. desc
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, Nov. 2, 2007–March 16, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Gil J. Stein -- Preface / Geoff Emberling -- 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 -- Isma'il Abu al-Fida -- The Mediterranean Tradition of Charting -- Mapping the City: Civitates Orbis Terrarum -- Through the Eyes of Travelers -- Cartography and Geographical Consciousness in the Ottoman Empire / M. Pinar Emiralioglu -- Catalogue of Exhibited Maps, Atlases, and Travel Accounts.

"This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, 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."--Pub. desc