ID: 700009478 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009478	Record Type: Movable Work
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Book on Navigation (folio (leaf); map maker: unknown Ottoman; author: Piri Reis (Ottoman, 1465...; late 11th century AH/AD 17th c...; Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Baltimore Independent City, M...; W.658)

Note: Copy of a book on navigation by Piri Reis that dated to 932 AH/AD 1525 and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent"). Later revised and expanded. Walters manuscript W.658, made mostly in the late 11th century AH/AD 17th, is based on the later expanded version and has some 240 exquisitely executed maps and portolan charts. They include a world map (fol. 41a) with the outline of the Americas, as well as maps of coastlines (bays, capes, peninsulas), islands, mountains, and cities of the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea. The work starts with the description of the coastline of Anatolia and the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Peloponnese peninsula, and the eastern and western coasts of the Adriatic Sea. It then proceeds to describe the western shores of Italy, southern France, Spain, North Africa, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, western Anatolia, various islands north of Crete, the Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It ends with a map of the shores of the Caspian Sea (fol. 374a).

Titles:

Book on Navigation (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

folio (leaf) [300189604] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, leaves (gathered matter))

map (document) [300028094]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>, graphic document genres, cartographic materials)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

cartographic

Creation Date: late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)

Creator Display:

map maker: unknown Ottoman; author: Piri Reis (Ottoman, 1465-1555) [preferred]

scribe unknown Ottoman (Ottoman cultural designation) [500125271]

author Piri Reis (Ottoman admiral, cartographer, 1465/1470–1553) Extent: work depicted [500475834]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Türkiye [1000144] Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Baltimore Independent City, Maryland, United States) [500279110] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: W.658

Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters

Display Materials: ink and pigments on laid European paper bound between boards covered with red leather with gold

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	pigments [300013109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, colorant (material))

	laid paper [300014184]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

	leather [300011845]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	boards (binding components) [300202819]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, <bindings and binding components>, binding components)

Dimensions: Folio H: 13 3/8 x W: 9 7/16 in. (34 x 24 cm); H open in cradle at 0°: 18 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (46.36 x 36.2 x 21.59 cm); H open in cradle at 10°: 18 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 10 in. (46.36 x 34.93 x 25.4 cm)

Cultures:

Ottoman (preferred)

General Subject:

cartographic (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	map (document) [300028094]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>, graphic document genres, cartographic materials) (AAT)

	Book on Navigation [901002095]
	.....((Literary works: Scientific, Instructional, Encyclopedia, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

Provenance: Ahmad Afandi [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see folio 4a]; Ali Afandi [date and mode of acquisiton unknown] [see folio 4a]; Sayyid Ali Qapudan [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see folio 1a]; Sultan Mahmud Khan [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [waqf seal and followed by a bequest statement (now erased), and the seal of the inspector of wakfs, Mustafá Tahir, see folio 4a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Book on Navigation	........ [VP]
	........ Walters Art Museum, Baltimore [online] (2000-) accessed 28 June 2018

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Walters Art Museum, Baltimore [online] (2000-) accessed 28 June 2018