The Walters Art Museum

This leaf is from a manuscript originally composed in 932 AH/AD 1525 and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent"). This great work by Piri Reis (d. 962 AH/AD 1555) on navigation was later revised and expanded. The present manuscript, made mostly in the late 11th century AH/AD 17th century, is based on the later expanded version with over 200 exquisitely executed maps and portolan charts of coastlines (bays, capes, peninsulas), islands, mountains and cities of the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea.

Illustration: Map of the Bay of Salonica (Selanik) and the Western Coastline

Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters

Accession Number: W.658.52B

Location within Museum: Not on view

Format: full-page map

Language: Turkish (Ottoman)

Culture: Ottoman

Place Depicted: Bay of Salonica in Greece

Ahmad Afandi [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see folio 4a]; Ali Afandi [date and mode of acquisiton unknown] [see folio 4a]; Sultan Mahmud Khan [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [waqf seal and a bequest statement erased, seal of inspector of awqaf, Mustafa Tahir, see folio 4a]; Sayyid Ali Qapudan [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [see folio 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.