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 Images of 16th-century Istanbul and its monuments are included here as visual sources. The entries are illustrated with image files in jpeg or tiff format (details about the licenses are given for each image separately). Views depicting multiple monuments are annotated to indicate each place shown – these annotations are visible with the help of the embedded IIIF viewer. Texts such as captions and legends accompanying images are also included; they are provided in their original language (like the purely textual sources), transcribed from the original paintings, drawings, and woodcuts. 
 
 ## Books from Ottoman Istanbul
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+To illustrate the process of transferring objects from Istanbul to cities in the Holy Roman Empire, an eloquent type of “traveling artifacts” has been selected, namely Greek medieval and early modern manuscripts acquired in Istanbul by visitors from the German-speaking world (they are now preserved in various European libraries, primarily in Austrian and in Germany). The Manuscript entries (entered into the Database as “Artifacts”) contain the basic data concerning the material attributes of the books, their date, some information about their contents, and a concise outline of their history prior to their transfer to Western Europe. Since the project is not a paleographic or philological study, the user is advised to use the links to the Pinakes database via the corresponding Diktyon number contained in the entry for each manuscript, where they can find further information on the codicology, paleography, and textual transmission. The entries here also contain links to digitized versions of the manuscripts available from the digital repositories of the library institutions where they are preserved.