Binding from Book on Navigation

Description Provenance Credit

Description This later binding from Walters manuscript W.658 is composed of larger size boards and has a flap. The binding has a central panel and side panels richly decorated and brushed over with gilt, doublures of red leather with a central lobed oval, and corner pieces in the shape of a dentelle, with filigree work.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creator

Islamic (Artist)

Period

n.d.

Medium

boards covered with red leather with gilt
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.658.binding

Measurements

Folio H: 13 3/8 x W: 9 7/16 in. (34 x 24 cm); H open in cradle: 14 1/8 x W: 25 13/16 x D: 5 13/16 in. (35.8 x 65.5 x 14.7 cm)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Map of the Caspian Sea	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.374A	Accession
akburun	Tags

Map of the Black Sea Coastline	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.373A	Accession

Map of the Sea of Marmara, Bosporus Strait and the Black Sea	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.372B	Accession

Map of the Coast of the Black Sea from Istanbul to Geresun	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.371A	Accession

Map of the Island of Mir 'Ali	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.369B	Accession

Book on Navigation	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658	Accession
sicily, rhodes, pasman, otranto, sea, mediterranean, marseille, grenada, ancona, cairo, messina, zadar, sardinia, catanzaro, trieste, ferrara, moroccan, genoa, libya, ottoman, portugal, granada, kurdistan, lemnos, iskenderun, genicke, kalymnos, romanius, istanbul, algiers, malta, corfu, paxoi, kea, alanya, tripoli, psara, alger, pola, cerigo, kythara, peschici, mountathos, egypt, red, dead, gibraltar, linish, morocco, kelibia, crete, veglia, hamam	Tags

Map of the Island of Marmara in the Sea of Marmara	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.368B	Accession

Leaf from Book on Navigation	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.367B	Accession

Map of Part of the Coastline of the Sea of Marmara, with the Town of Kavak	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.366B	Accession

Map of Aloneses and Unidentified Islands	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.364B	Accession

Map of Skyros Island	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.362B	Accession

Map of Keos Island	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.361B	Accession

Map of Kythnos Island	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.360B	Accession

Map of Serofos (Koyunluga) Island	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.359B	Accession

Map of Melos Island	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.357B	Accession

Map of the Islands Folegandros and Melos	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.356A	Accession

Map of the Islands Folegandros and Ios	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.355A	Accession

Map of Two Islands: Santorini and Thera in the Aegean Sea, North of Crete	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.354A	Accession

Map of the Island of Anafi, East of Thera	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.353A	Accession

Map of the Island of Crete	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.352A	Accession

Map Fragment of the Island of Crete	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.351B	Accession

Map of the Islands of Karpathos and Kasos	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.346A	Accession

Map of the Istanbul Island	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.344B	Accession

Map of Unidentified Islands Off the Southern Anatolian Coast	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.343B	Accession

Map of the Islands Off the Shores of Finike	Title
late 11th century AH/AD 17th century-early 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)	Period
W.658.337B	Accession