Open AccessOttoman Book Collectors and Illustrated Sixteenth Century Shiraz Manuscripts1
Author(s) -
Laie Uluç
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
revue du monde musulman et de la méditerranée/revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2105-2271
pISSN - 0997-1327
DOI - 10.4000/remmm.299
Subject(s) - persian , popularity , realm , elite , classics , history , ancient history , political science , law , archaeology , politics , philosophy , linguistics
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