1985.270: Illustrated Manuscript of Tarjama-i Tarikh-i Yangi Dunya (Translation of the History of the New World)
Manuscripts
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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
- Permissions
-
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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; McMullen Museum of Art, 02/09/2025 - 06/01/2025
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