TabulaRogeriana.jpg


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English: Copy of Al Idrisi Tabula Rogeriana with arabic names translitterated into the roman alphabet. The original has north at the bottom, so it appears "upside down". Please do not rotate it to have north at the top, as we seek to preserve the original.
Date (translitteration of arabic names by Konrad Miller, based on a 1300 (French) or 1486 (Bodleian) copy of a 1154 original)
Source Konrad Miller's collage of the Bodleian MS. Pococke 375 or possibly another based on the French National Library's MS. Arabe 2221
Author Konrad Miller (copy and translitteration)
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The Tabula Rogeriana, an ancient world map drawn by Muhammad al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154. The north is at the bottom; Arabic names are transliterated into the Roman alphabet

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