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Tarih-i Yeni Du?nya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev

Title	Tarih-i Yeni Du?nya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev
Publication Date:	1600
Type	belge
Language	Turkish
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Library:	Harvard Library
Record ID	TN_cdi_adammatthew_archives_Exploration_1164
Library Location	ONLINE ACCESS
Date	1600
Notes	This is an unsigned manuscript copy, dated 1368-1369, but actually from c.1600, of the Tarih-i Hindi-i garbi [A history of the India of the West], written by an anonymous Turk around 1580. The account relates the explorations of Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, and others, introducing American colonial history and the new geographic discoveries to the Islamic world. Translated in Thomas Goodrich The Ottoman Turks and the New World, 1990. The document contains three good maps. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss Islamic cosmology and geography, the Old World with its seven 'climes', its bodies of water, and areas of aridity and fertility, and the Atlantic Ocean. Chapter 3 contains one section on North America and the Magellan expedition, and another on South America, mainly Peru. The author, probably assisted by someone from Spain who knew Italian, worked from Italian translations of 16th-century texts: Lo?pez de Go?mara's Historia general de las Indias; Ferna?ndez de Oviedo y Valde?s' De la natural hystoria de las Indias; Peter Martyr's De orbe novo; and Historia del descubrimiento y conquesta del Peru by Agusti?n de Za?rate.
Kaynak	Age of Exploration
Başlık	Tarih-i Yeni Du?nya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev

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Tarih-i Yeni Du?nya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev

Publication Date 1600

Type belge

Language Turkish

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Library Harvard Library

Record ID TN_cdi_adammatthew_archives_Exploration_1164

Library Location ONLINE ACCESS

Date 1600

Notes This is an unsigned manuscript copy, dated 1368-1369, but actually from c.1600, of the Tarih-i Hindi-i garbi [A history of the India of the West], written by an anonymous Turk around 1580. The account relates the explorations of Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, and others, introducing American colonial history and the new geographic discoveries to the Islamic world. Translated in Thomas Goodrich The Ottoman Turks and the New World, 1990. The document contains three good maps. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss Islamic cosmology and geography, the Old World with its seven 'climes', its bodies of water, and areas of aridity and fertility, and the Atlantic Ocean. Chapter 3 contains one section on North America and the Magellan expedition, and another on South America, mainly Peru. The author, probably assisted by someone from Spain who knew Italian, worked from Italian translations of 16th-century texts: Lo?pez de Go?mara's Historia general de las Indias; Ferna?ndez de Oviedo y Valde?s' De la natural hystoria de las Indias; Peter Martyr's De orbe novo; and Historia del descubrimiento y conquesta del Peru by Agusti?n de Za?rate.

Kaynak Age of Exploration

Başlık Tarih-i Yeni Du?nya, el-musemma be hadis-i nev