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LINK TO INDEX OF MAPS IN Paradoxplace
Piri Re'is "View of Venice" 1525 Maps of the Sestieri of Venice Maps of the Streets and Canals of San Marco
LINK TO Paradoxplace VENICE PHOTO PAGES
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This "View of Venice" comes from a 1688 copy of a book by Suleiman the Magnificent's Ottoman Turkish Admiral Piri Re'is, titled Kitab-l Bahriye ("Book of the Mariner") and originally produced in 1525. Link to Piri Re'is' map of half the world. Illustration from "Islamic Art and Patronage - Treasures from Kuwait" exhibition catalogue, 1990.
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