OTTOMAN PROVINCES, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi: Ma'rifatname
Ottoman Provinces, early 19th Century
Turkish manuscript on cream paper, comprising a section of the Ma'rifatname with related associated maps and diagrams preceded by an unrelated work on hadith, 120ff. mostly with 25ll. of black Ottoman naskh, titles in red, nineteen tables and diagrams in gouache pasted in from another manuscript, in later North African tan morocco binding with tooled medallion
Folio 13 x 9in. (33 x 23cm.)

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Lot Essay

The Ma'rifatname of Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakki is a work concerned with eschatology, but contains planispheric maps of the Old and new Worlds. These were based on the Atlas Major of the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596-16730, influential in 18th century Turkey.
The style of the maps bears a close resemblance to those in the copy dated 1235/1820 in the collection of Nasser D. Khalili. (Rogers, J.M.: Empire of the Sultans, London, 1995, no. 74, pp. 121-123)
We are grateful to Tim Stanley for his help in cataloguing this lot.

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