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al-Idrisi

  • Writer: Andrew J. Bramlett
    Andrew J. Bramlett
  • Oct 20, 2022
  • 1 min read

This map is from the Tabula Rogeriana, a guide to the world written by geographer al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily. It was completed in 1154, only weeks before Roger passed away. This version is a copy made in Cairo in 1553.



Image: ‘Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq” by al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily (1553). From the Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 375.

 
 
 

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