SCHEDEL'İN DÜNYA TARİHİ/NÜRNBERG KRONİĞİ'NDE (LIBER CHRONICARUM) KONSTANTİNOPOLİS TASVİRLERİ
THE PICTURES OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN "DIE SCHEDELSHE WELTCHRONIK"/THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE/THE LIBER CHRONICARUM

Summary/Abstract: Constantinople or İstanbul has been the subject of many travelers and painters throughout centuries. Especially since the first half of the 15th century, depictions of Constantinople are important in terms of proving existences of buildings surviving in the city and following the development process of the urbanization. This study examines panoramic pictures of Constantinople shown in a bird's-eye view in the work known as "Schedel's World Chronicle" (lat. Liber Chronicarum) or "the Nuremberg Chronicles" written by Hartmann Schedel in Latin in Nuremberg in the late 15th century. There are 1804 illustrations made of 643 different woodprintings. Moreover, there is a panorama of Constantinople on folyo 129verso-130recto, 249recto, 257recto and 274recto. The illustrations in folyo 129verso-130recto, 249recto and 274recto were made with the same woodprinting. It is possible to perceive the historical peninsula and a part of Pera, Propontis Sea, the double land walls and the sea walls that surround the city, columns, Hagia Sophia Church and some buildings in folyo 129verso-130recto, 249recto and folyo 274recto.

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