Collected Item: “Tabula Rogeriana”
Title
Tabula Rogeriana
Alternative title
Nuzhat al-mushtiiq
Genre of image
Map
Creator
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Era
Medieval
Date
1154
Date of any modification
ca.1300 (this version)
Region and/or country (additional to map location)
Sicily
Brief description/ overview
The most accurate map of its day, drawn by Arabic geographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti, or Al-Idrisi, for Roger II of Sicily--hence its common name. It is a "South up" map.
Website
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40654899m
More detail about the image
The redrawing of the Tabula Rogeriana by Konrad Miller in 1929 with the Arabic text transliterated into Latin (2nd image here) has been 'corrected' on Wikipedia by being reversed to Northern orientation. The main image is the copy dated around 1300 held by the Bibliotèque Nationale. The map location is a random spot in al-Idrisi's birthplace in the city of Ceuta, now in spain.
Source of image
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier (accession number, Digital Object Identifier DOI, etc)
ark:/12148/btv1b100601717
Image rights
Public Domain