1480–1564, Ottoman Empire
Polymath of Süleyman’s court — mathematician, swordsman, historian — who invented the Ottoman topographical miniature. His Beyân-ı Menâzil records every halt of the 1534–35 Iraq campaign as a bird’s-eye city portrait with no human figures, a uniquely Ottoman genre.
Works
- Ottoman fleet underway. Tarikh-i fath-i Şikloş ve Ustūrğün ve Ustunībelgirād, c. 1545 (Topkapı Palace Library, H.1608)
- Ottoman fleet with city. Tarikh-i fath-i Şikloş ve Ustūrğün ve Ustunībelgirād, c. 1545 (Topkapı Palace Library, H.1608)
- İstanbul in the Menazilname by Matrakçı Nasuh (detail of Hagia Irene)
- İstanbul in the Menazilname by Matrakçı Nasuh (detail of Hagia Sophia)
- İstanbul in the Menazilname by Matrakçı Nasuh (detail of the Column of Constantine)
- İstanbul in the Menazilname by Matrakçı Nasuh (detail of the peninsula)
- خارطة بغداد
- Ali Shah Mosque complex in Matrakçı Nasuh map of Tabriz (1538) according to Ajorloo 2022
- Hasht-Behesht Palace, Tabriz, 1537-1538
- Matrakçı Nasuh Map of Tabriz (North orientation)
- Uzun Hasan Mosque (in a map of Tabriz 1537–38)
- Barbarossa fleet wintering in Toulon 1543. Matrakçı Nasuh
- Bitlis, Matrakci Nasuh
- Map of Aleppo from Menazilname
- Matrakçı Nasuh - İstanbul (cropped-Galata)
- Matrakçı Nasuh - İstanbul
- Antibes Kalesi-Matrakçı Nasuh-Estergon Kalesi'nin Fethi-1543
- Barbarossa fleet wintering in Toulon 1543
- Devlet I Giray and Suleiman I in 1551
- Devlet I Giray
- Old Tabriz (1538 Matrakçı Nasuh Map vs 1827 Russian map)
- Uzun Hasan Mosque in a map of Tabriz 1537–38
- Aleppo ca1537 by Matrakci Nasuh Istanbul University Library ms 5964
- Aleppo ca1537 by Matrakci Nasuh Istanbul University Library ms5964
- Nasuh Al-Silahi - View of Eskisehir
- Ali Shah Mosque complex in the Matrakçı Nasuh map of Tabriz (1538) according to Ajorloo 2022
- Hasht-Behesht Palace in Tabriz, 1537-1538
