The Great World Maps
The Piri Reis Map
An Ottoman admiral charts the New World.
- Map
- The Map of Piri Reis (surviving fragment)
- Mapmaker
- Piri Reis (Ottoman admiral)
- Date
- 1513
- Held by
- Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Drawn on gazelle-skin by the Ottoman admiral and corsair Piri Reis, this is one of the earliest surviving maps to show the Americas — compiled, its own notes say, from some twenty older charts, reputedly including one of Columbus's own. Only a fragment survives, showing the Atlantic between the bulge of Africa and a coast of the New World, its interior alive with ships, kings, and monsters. A masterwork of Islamic cartography, and one of the great enigmas of the map.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag or textured laid stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on stock made to outlive its owner.
