The book of Cihannuma : a 365-year-old story / Katip Çelebi ; editör, Bülent Özükan.

By:

Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Özükan, Bülent [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Turkish, Ottoman Publisher: İstanbul : Boyut Yayınları, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 208 pages : illustrations (color), maps (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789752310469 (hardback)

Uniform titles:

Cihannüma.. English

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

G114 K38

Summary: Text includes background on: early mapmaking; the history of the Book of Cihannuma; the printer Ibrahim Müteferrika's influence on the development of Turkish printing (with an annotated bibliography of the 1st 17 books of his output and a bibliography of works about him, as well as his pivotal role as scholar/printer of this work; a background on the history of Ottoman geography and astronomy; and the complete text in miniature facsimile pages, accompanied by commentary from original and current scholars.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
KWA (International Collection) - 1st floor	Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali First Floor (Gadong Campus)	(KWA) TUR G114 K38 2013 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	Donated by Embassy of The Republic of Turkiye		1070002350

Text includes background on: early mapmaking; the history of the Book of Cihannuma; the printer Ibrahim Müteferrika's influence on the development of Turkish printing (with an annotated bibliography of the 1st 17 books of his output and a bibliography of works about him, as well as his pivotal role as scholar/printer of this work; a background on the history of Ottoman geography and astronomy; and the complete text in miniature facsimile pages, accompanied by commentary from original and current scholars.

English with documents in Ottoman.

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