The Library houses 58 cataloged Ottoman Turkish manuscripts in its Near East rare collections that range in age from Yazcioglu Mehmed's Muhammediyye (1583) and Zakariya Qazwini's Ajaib al-Makhluqat (The wonders of creation) also from the sixteenth century (1553) to the early twentieth century.
The manuscript contains many illustrations and the one seen here depicts a map, oriented to the south, with an angel holding a bowl of water that contains a fish on whose back is the globe-bearing ox. Near East Section, Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division.
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