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 | Other |
| Language | Turkish |
| Digital | Yes |
| Manuscript | Yes |
| Library: | University of Iowa Libraries |
| Record ID | TN_cdi_adammatthew_archives_Exploration_1164 |
| 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. |
