Drawn on gazelle-skin by the Ottoman admiral and corsair Piri Reis, this is one of the earliest surviving maps to show the Americas — compiled, its own notes say, from some twenty older charts, reputedly including one of Columbus's own. Only a fragment survives, showing the Atlantic between the bulge of Africa and a coast of the New World, its interior alive with ships, kings, and monsters. A masterwork of Islamic cartography, and one of the great enigmas of the map.

Maker: Piri Reis (Ottoman admiral)
Date: 1513
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
Credit: Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00317

As chosen: 12 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 16 in
Outside size	13.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	245	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
11 x 14 in	178	Good	Trimmed 4.6%
12 x 16 in	163	Good	Edge to edge

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 24 in	109 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 30 in	81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 40 in	65 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	54 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

1,964 x 2,619 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Tone

Darks 93, lights 255 of 255; 12.4% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

280.41

Notes

Pure white on 12% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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