A character bibliothec at the National Library of Norway was latterly browse through the ledge when he stumbled across a beautiful , mitt - colored Ottoman atlas dating back to 1803 . Little did he know that the work was actually an extremely rarefied transcript of the Cedid Atlas — the first atlas free-base on western practice session and information print by Muslims .
fit in to theThe Washington Post , the librarian — a serviceman named Anders Kvernberg , who ’s be intimate as PisseGuri82 on Reddit — scanned a few Thomas Nelson Page of his uncovering and shared them with the on-line residential area under a subreddit calledMapPorn . Several weeks later , Kvernberg revisit the thread and noticed that another userhad uploaded a pagefrom the same book of maps . A commenter had labeled it as a scan from the Library of Congress ’s transcript of the " Cedid Atlas Tercumesi . " Only 50 transcript were ever created , and only 14 purported to still exist . After conducting his own enquiry on the school text , a surprised Kvernberg reported on Reddit that apparently a 15th exists as well .
The atlas had been register in the National Library of Norway ’s bill of fare catalogue but not its digital catalog . A reference librarian , however , was able to make out a name write inside the book , which connect the work to its possible previous owner . He was a textile importer from Oslo who may have purchased the atlas in the 1930s while journey in Albania and southerly Yugoslavia — country that once belonged to the Ottoman Empire . His timing was serendipitous , as Germany would afterward occupy the region during World War II , and it ’s probable that the world saved the text edition from destruction . The atlas was probably donated to the depository library in the fifties , where it was preserved in a light- and temperature - controlled environs for decades until it was rediscovered by Kvernberg .
The Cedid Atlas will be passed along to the depository library ’s preservationist , and it might be digitalized and put online so the world can have the remarkable discovery . Until then , you cancheck out more word picture of the newly rediscovered workon Reddit .
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