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ID: 901002095
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002095
Record Type: Literature

Book on Navigation (Piri Reis, Ottoman, 1525)

Note: Originally composed in 932 AH/AD 1525 and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent"), this great work by Piri Reis (d. 962 AH/AD 1555) on navigation was later revised and expanded.

Display Date: composed in 932 AH/1525 CE

Names:
Book on Navigation (Piri Reis, Ottoman, 1525) (preferred,English-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Named written and performed works> (P)
........<Literary works: Scientific, Instructional, Encyclopedia> (P)
............Book on Navigation (Piri Reis, Ottoman, 1525) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... atlas (cartographic material)
.....(cartographic materials, graphic document genres, documents by form, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
topic is .... navigation
.....(science (modern discipline), science and related disciplines, disciplines (concept), Disciplines (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
created in .... Turkey
.....(Asia) (TGN)
author is .... Pirî Reis (Ottoman admiral, cartographer, 1465/1470–1553)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:
Book on Navigation (Piri Reis, Ottoman, 1525)
................Walters Art Museum, Baltimore [online] (2000-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Walters Art Museum, Baltimore [online] (2000-)

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