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Hartmann Schedel’in İstanbul Görünümleri

2019; Istanbul University; Linguagem: Inglês

10.26650/artsanat.2019.11.0002

2148-3582

Sedat Bornovalı,

Byzantine Studies and History

Hartmann Schedel’s World History is one of the most renowned works of the printing art of the 15th century in which the printing press was invented. In 1493, it was written on order in Latin and published in 1493. In the same year a German translation was published, as well. The engravings the book contains reflects many cities of the known world. Some of the most spectacular engravings depict Istanbul. On the other hand, the interest shown to Istanbul among the 1800 engravings was limited and few studies were conducted on these views. The number of those published in Turkish is particularly limited. Liber Chronicarum is a very early and important visual source for Istanbul. It is even more important in terms of reflecting the information from different sources about Istanbul in different compositions. Although these views have been examined and interpreted by various researchers, every research can add new information and correct some of the errors previous studied contained. In the 525th year of it publication, it is clear that Schedel’s World History is still able to contribute to our knowledge.