Kitab-ı Bahriye
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The Kitab-ı Bahriye is a navigational guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and notes from his career at sea into the most detailed portolan atl
A copy open to the page on Corsica
Djerba on the North African coast
Venice, second version, Istanbul University Library Turkey, manuscript Türkçe 6605
First version, Sicily, Bibliothèque nationale manuscript turc 220, copied late sixteenth or seventeenth century
Portolan chart
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Portolan charts are the earliest known type of nautical charts, and the oldest known examples were made in the late 13th and early 14th centuries in the Mediterranean region, usually displaying the ar
Kitab-ı Bahriye
…guide written by Piri Reis, an Ottoman cartographer, corsair, and captain. He compiled charts and notes from his career at sea into the most detailed portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea in existence. The Kitab-ı Bahriye combines information from a range of sources and Piri Reis' personal experience. The…
1466 portolan of eastern Azov Sea shores with symbols representing the shores' navigational hazards
1439 portolan chart by Gabriel de Vallseca (Museu Maritim, Barcelona)