Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı, Treasury Collection, no. 642

Book of the Sea Facsimile Edition

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The Book of the Sea is the manuscript of Pîrî Reis's manual on the coastlines and islands of the Mediterranean Sea presented to Süleyman I, the "magnificent," Sultan of the Turks. Made in Istanbul around 1526, it is a copy of the second version of the text, expanded and rendered into verse by Seyyid Muradi. Reis, a renowned Ottoman seafarer and cartographer, described his book on the science and art of navigation as "a present" to the sultan. The manuscript boasts 215 maps. Chapter headings and tables are framed with gold.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Book of the Sea": Kitab-ı Bahriyye = Piri Reis's Kitab-ı Bahriyye facsimile edition, published by Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 2014

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Manuscript book description compiled by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.
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Kitab-ı Bahriyye = Piri Reis's Kitab-ı Bahriyye

Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 2014

  • Commentary (English, Turkish)
  • Limited Edition: 2000 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Book of the Sea: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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