Tabula Rogeriana

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Complete map transcribed in Latin, assembled from the individual sheets that have survived ( Konrad Miller , 1926)
Single sheet with Sicily and surrounding islands, manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (around 1250–1325)

The Tabula Rogeriana (Eng. "The Map of Roger") was a world map completed in 1154 by the Arab geographer Al-Idrisi . Al-Idrisi worked for 18 years at the court of the Norman King Roger II of Sicily on the illustrations and comments on the map. It shows the entire Eurasian continent and North Africa. She was described Arab and probably as preserved part-copies and circular representations of Oikumene suggest, unlike modern maps gesüdet . The version engraved on a silver plate was already lost during riots under Wilhelm I.

literature

  • Miller, Konrad : Mappae Arabicae: Arab world and country maps of the 9th-13th centuries Century in Arabic originals, Latin transcription and translation into modern map sketches . First volume, first issue, Stuttgart 1926 , pp. 24–25; 1st volume, 2nd issue : Idrisi's world map from 1154 , Stuttgart 1926; 1. Volume, 3. Issue : The small Idrisikarte from the year 1192 AD , Stuttgart 1926; Volume 6 : Idrisi Atlas , Stuttgart 1927.
  • Miller, Konrad: Charter Rogeriana. World map of Idrisi from the year 1154 AD , Brockhaus, Stuttgart 1928
  • The world map of the Idrīsī (Charter Rogeriana) from the year 1154 AD (1981) (Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients / edited by Collaborative Research Center 19 "Tübingen Atlas des Vorderen Orients" of the University of Tübingen; Part B), Reichert, Wiesbaden 1981 .
  • Ahmad, S. Maqbul: Cartography of aI-Sharīf aI-Idrīsī , in: History of Cartography, Vol. II, Book 1, Chicago & London 1992, 156 - 174.

Remarks

  1. This is the title in the library of the MGH proved Also reprinted in 1981 under the title: world map of the Arab Idrisi from 1154 ( Proof ).

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