Tabula Rogeriana

Item

Title
Tabula Rogeriana
AKA /name in common usage
Nuzhat al-mushtiiq
Type
Map
Creator
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Era
Medieval
Date Created
1154
Date Modified
ca.1300 (this version)
Region and/or country
Sicily
Short Overview
The most accurate map of its day, drawn by Arabic geographer Al-Idrisi, for Roger II of Sicily--hence its title. It is a "South up" map: visibly mending northern hemisphere bias.
Longer description
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti, known as al-Idrisi's, Tabula Rogeriana was redrawn by Konrad Miller in 1929--the second image here. On this, the Arabic text was transliterated into Latin, not completely accurately. In a kind of reverse mending, its most widely available version, on Wikipedia, has been 'corrected' by being flipped to Northern orientation. The main image here is the copy dated around 1300 held by the Bibliotèque Nationale. The map location below is a random spot in al-Idrisi's birthplace in the city of Ceuta, now in Spain.
Identifier
ark:/12148/btv1b100601717
Rights
Public Domain
Source
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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