World maps & models
Islamic world diagram with supporting creatures
Historical recordMythic world-supporting creatures; not navigation.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Acaib-ül Mahlûkat world diagram
- Artifact date
- c. 1553
- Creator
- Zekeriya Kazvinî tradition
- Holding institution
- Library of Congress
- Classification
- Islamic cosmology
Antarctica connection
Contextual visual history; not direct evidence about Antarctica
Relevance and caution
Mythic world-supporting creatures; not navigation.
Catalog context
Curatorial navigation label; original categories and source identity retained.
Cosmological world map, Ottoman Turkish Acaib-ül Mahlûkat, October/November1553; Library of Congress Turkish Manuscript185.
Zekeriya Kazvinî, Acaib-ül Mahlûkat, 1553. Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division, Turkish Manuscript 185 (G93 .Q3185 1553), page296. Reproduction via Wikimedia Commons.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
LOC primary catalog states public domain/no known restrictions and free to use/reuse (exception is unrelated Africana postcards); Commons exact reproduction also Public Domain Mark.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://www.loc.gov/resource/amed.2017406674/?sp=296
- image reuse conditionshttps://www.loc.gov/item/2017406674/
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/earth.html#obj104
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