Untitled world map in Arabic (first printed edition)
by Kashgari, Mahmud:
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
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About This Item
[Constantinople (Istanbul), Amire Printing House, AH 1333], 1917. World map in Arabic, 29 x 29.5 cm, printed in colours, old folds, lower left hand corner unobtrusively reinstated (no loss of image), blank verso. This is the first printed edition of a world map in Arabic, which was originally drawn in the 11th century CE to illustrate Mahmud al-Kashgaris Diwan Lughat al-Turk (The Compendium of the Turkic Dialects), one of the most important early sources for Turkish language and culture. Oriented with East at the top, in terms of scale and detail the map is focused on the Turkic heartlands of central Asia, but the extent of the map is far greater. Kashgari includes the Franks and the Iberian peninsula, Berbers, Egyptians and Abyssinians, Hindustan and, in the far east, Mashin (China) and Japarqa (Japan, surrounded by a green semi-circle at the top of the map). Kashgari shows the Great Wall of China, and this is also the earliest known map to include Japan (see Jim Siebolds discussion of the map on myoldmaps.com). Geographical features on the map are colour-coded: green for seas and blue for rivers, red for mountains, and yellow for towns and deserts. Kashgaris work was lost for centuries before its rediscovery in Istanbuls secondhand book market by bibliophile Ali Amiri, who then supervised its publication. Map
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9574
- Title
- Untitled world map in Arabic (first printed edition)
- Author
- Kashgari, Mahmud:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- [Constantinople (Istanbul), Amire Printing House, AH 1333]
- Date Published
- 1917
- Bookseller catalogs
- World;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.