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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.270
Title
Illustrated Manuscript of Tarjama-i Tarikh-i Yangi Dunya (Translation of the History of the New World)
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript
Date
1805
Places
Creation Place: Middle East
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213112

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, with lacquer binding
Dimensions
24.2 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm (9 1/2 x 5 13/16 x 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin Binney, 3rd, California (by 1985), bequest; to Fogg Museum of Art.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.270
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd: 1981 Supplement to the 1979 catalogue, exh. cat., San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA, 1981), p.4-6
  • Baki Tezcan, "The Many Lives of the First Non-Western History of the Americas: From the New Report to the History of the West Indies", The Journal of Ottoman Studies, ed. Baki Tezcan and Gottfried Hagen, ISAM (2012), Issue 40, pp.1-38, p. 19, fig. 7; p. 21, fig. 9

Exhibition History

  • The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1987 - 08/02/1987
  • Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 09/07/2024 - 01/05/2025

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Verification Level

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