Ottoman Book Collectors and Illustrated Sixteenth Century Shiraz Manuscripts

This article is a survey of the archival lists of holdings of private libraries of Ottoman intellectuals, bureaucrats and elite. It also examines the published evidence of such libraries and codi-cological evidence from the illustrated luxury editions of the works of classical Persian authors found...

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Main Author: Laie Uluç
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 1999-09-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/299
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Summary:This article is a survey of the archival lists of holdings of private libraries of Ottoman intellectuals, bureaucrats and elite. It also examines the published evidence of such libraries and codi-cological evidence from the illustrated luxury editions of the works of classical Persian authors found in the Istanbul collections, as well as establishing the popularity of the Persian illustrated book in the Ottoman realm.
ISSN:0997-1327
2105-2271