Visualizing Süleymaname: Analyzing and Visualizing Embedded Spatiotemporal Information in a 16th Century Illustrated Manuscript

In this paper, we present the analysis and the visualization process of spatiotemporal information in a 16th century illustrated manuscript. The purpose of this research is to find alternative ways of exploring the illustrations of a 16th century manuscript. Using the artifact analysis methods, we analyzed 69 illustrations in the manuscript of Suleymanname from the point of view of time and space. Employing media visualization techniques, we generated three visualizations based on the created dataset containing the metadata about the illustrations. In the visualizations, we used the actual media artifacts as representation of data instead of the graphical primitives like points. The resulting visualizations make it possible to explore the collection of the illustrations in historical and geographical contexts.