Klaudios Ptolemaios

412 (264 + 148) pp, color figures, hb, in special box, in Turkish-German-Greek multilingual.

This collection of maps was discovered by Fatih Sultan Mehmed and translated into Ottoman Turkish. It was re-discovered and carefully preserved while the Topkapı Palace was being transformed into a museum during the Republic era. The facsimile is being presented to the the science community for the first time in nearly 700 years. Topkapı Palace Museum İstanbul / Turkey Non-Islamic Works (GI) registered with number 57. Consists of 2 books.

Book 1: Klaudios Ptolemaios' Handwritings and Research Report on Mehmet II's Intellectual Personality. Presented by İlber Ortaylı and with contributions by M. Celal Şengör. Prepared by Alfred Stückelberger, Florian Mittenhuber, Robert Fuchs.

• Restoration stories from 1927-1929 and 2003-2011.

Book 2: Klaudios Ptolemaios Coğrafya El Kitabı / Klaudios Ptolemaios Geography Handbook / Geographica Hypegesis.

Topkapı Palace Museum Facsimile. The first global world map prepared in the early 1300's in the Constantinople scriptoriums. 10 Europe and 4 Africa maps. 12 Asian maps including Anatolia, Aegean, Mediterranean and Cyprus.

• Geographike Hyphegesis
• Kladios Ptolemaios
• Codex Sereglianis GI57
• Topkapi Palace Museum/Facsimile
• University of Bern Institute of Ptolemaios
• Research Paper