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Weltkarte des Idrisi / Charta Rogeriana

al-Idrisi; Konrad Miller, reconstructor

Map: Weltkarte des Idrisi, Miller after Idrisi, 1154
Picture: Library of Congress. See it at full size at the library

How we know

not stated The catalogue does not say how the author knew.

Research notes
  • Modern reconstructed arrangement of medieval sectional geography; not an original surviving 1154 sheet.

Why it matters

Companion to medieval manuscript, useful for readable place names.

Places named

World; Central Asia

Who copied whom

Earlier in the chain
  • this one reproduces it (stated)
    Miller's 1928 reconstruction of al-Idrisi's 1154 map

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