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The first book was donated by the Köprülü family, and the number of available books continued to increase with further donations and purchases. Of all the donations to the library, those by Köprülü Mehmet Pasha , Fazil Ahmet Pasa , Haci (Hafiz) Ahmet Pasha , and Mehmet Asim Bey were among the most substantial.
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 is a 1995 non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, covering Constantinople (now Istanbul) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The author hoped to show positive aspects of the Ottoman Empire while acknowledging some negative aspects. [1]
John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd's classic guidebook, Strolling Through Istanbul. Freely was the author of more than 40 books, many of them either histories of Istanbul and Turkey, accounts of the lives of significant figures of the Ottoman Empire or travel guides, especially about Istanbul.
Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. [2] One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Bastard of Istanbul; Behemoth (novel) The Black Book (Pamuk novel)
Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition.
Istanbul is the tenth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services.
The codices moved to Istanbul after the Turkish conquest of Hungary in the 16th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Only about 216 Corvinae survived, today preserved in several libraries in Hungary and Europe. North of the Alps , Matthias's library was the largest in Europe, and its vast contents was only second to the Vatican Library in the whole of Europe ...