The books and maps that were printed in his workshop during Müteferrika's lifetime are actually
considered to be known and already adequately researched. However as part of the preparations
for the exhibition Travelling Tales: Thousand and One Nights between the Orient and Europe
(2019) when short descriptions of the many objects to be exhibited had to be compiled for the
visitors an astonishing number of questions remained unanswered regarding a hand-colored map.
Upon close examination it turned out that all previous information on the map was
contradictory or even wrong as Müteferrika's participation in the map became more and more
likely:In a cartouche on the maps there is an inscription in Ottoman Turkish which can be read
as following: Engraving from Migirdic from Galata. However a certain Migirdic Galatavi is also
known as one of the engravers from Müteferrika. Another text on the map mentions the year 1151
and Istanbul and at that time only Müteferrika had a license to print in Ottoman Turkish
there. Can this map therefore be assigned to the so-called Turkish incunabula? So far nobody
seems to have noticed a relationship but some arguments appear to prove the connection.
