Descriptive Catalogues of Historical Earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East; Revisited - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 31

Fig. 3 Facsimile of an
Ottoman Imperial order,
bearing the cipher (tugra) of
Mustafa-II, which allowed
the execution of repairs to the
church of St Nicholas in
Quzna (Kozani) in northern
Greece, issued after the
earthquake of 26
September 1695
to the 1509 earthquake (Fig. 4). That the minarets would have remained unrepaired
for 20 years seems rather strange and an inspection of another print of this woodcut,
kept at the British Library, shows some damage in that area and a portion of the
minaret and dome may have been lost. Later prints from a better pressing from
the same block at the British Library show no flaw and the tallish minarets built
outside the body of the mosque, so that the only indication of their collapse is the
Fig. 4 A woodcut by Coecke, made in about 1529, showing the Fatih mosque in Istanbul with its
truncated minaret