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)	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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