Turcicum Imperium

Title

Turcicum Imperium
Hondius, his map of the Turkish Empire

Subject

Turkey--Maps--Early works to 1800; Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Maps--Early works to 1800; Middle East--Maps--Early works to 1800; Digital maps

Description

Hand-colored map on paper. Front: small map of of the Ottoman Empire showing areas from present-day Greece to the west to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran to the east. Relief shown pictorially. Title cartouche in lower left corner. Text at head of the map reads: Hondius, his map of the Turkish Empire. English text under the map and on the back. Purchased with funds given in honor of Dr. Richard J. Houk, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography.
14 x 18 cm., on sheet 34 x 22 cm.

Creator

Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612

Source

Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University Library; Chicago, IL, USA 60614; http://library.depaul.edu/Collections/SpecialCollectionArchives.aspx

Publisher

London : Imprinted at London for Henry Fetherston at y[e]e signe of the rose in Pauls Churchyard, 1625

Date

1625

Rights

Please contact the Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library regarding rights and any reproduction.

Relation

Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes / Samuel Purchas, vol. 2, p. 1288.

Format

TIFF

Language

English

Type

Still image; Text

Identifier

HondiusTurcicum_20130223
http://server16106.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/scimages,186

Files

Hondius_TurcicumImperium.jpg

Tags

Citation

Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, “Turcicum Imperium,” DePaul University Special Collections and Archives, accessed March 29, 2024, https://dpuspecialcollections.omeka.net/items/show/141.