Kemâliyle Nakş Olunmuş Cümle Cihan Numûnesi 1795

shaped map of the world is attributed to a cartographer from Tunis named Hajji Ahmad. At first glance, the map's accompanying Ottoman Turkish text appears to be a captivating, first-person account of Hajji Ahmad's remarkable odyssey across the Mediterranean. Upon closer inspection, cartography scholars have questioned the map's authenticity and authorship. The text contains errors, and European sources such as Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Delle Navigationi et Viaggi (Travels and voyages) appear to have influenced the geographical details of the map. Most likely it was printed for commercial purposes by a group of Venetian cartographers that included Nicolò Cambi and Michele Membré, the official Turkish translator for the Venetian Republic. Whatever its true provenance, the map highlights the remarkable cross-cultural influences in the early modern Mediterranean world, especially among Tunis, Venice, and Istanbul." World Digital Library.

Created by Oronce Fine, Hâcı Ahmed in 1795.

• Hâci Ahmed is probably a pseudonym, possibly of Michele Membré and Nicolò Cambi.
• Includes ill., including 2 celestial hemispheres and an illustration of an armillary sphere.
• Map based on Oronce Fine's cordiform map of 1534, according to Shirley's Mapping of the world, 1993.
• Map printed on 10 sheets pasted together.
• One of 24 impressions printed in 1795 from six woodcut blocks when found in the archives of the Council of Ten in Venice.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Text states the map was translated into Turkish in 967 (Oct. 1559 to Sept. 1560).
• Acquisitions control no. 2000-73

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