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Tabula Rogeriana

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Also known as Kitab Rujar, Book of Roger, Book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands, Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq, The Excursion of One Eager to Penetrate the Distant Horizons

1154 work by Muhammad al Idrisi

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Author
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Media type
Atlas

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The Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq (Arabic: نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق, lit. "The Excursion of One Eager to Penetrate the Distant Horizons"), commonly known in the West as the Tabula Rogeriana (lit. "The Book of Roger" in Latin), is an atlas commissioned by the Norman King Roger II in 1138 and completed by the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154. The atlas compiles 70 maps of the known world with associated descriptions and commentary of each specific location by Al-Idrisi.

Armenia is shown in the bottom center, Azerbaijan in the lower left corner, and West Central Iran in upper left and a small portion of the Caspian Sea at the bottom left, with the Zagros Mountains at the bottom. Sixth section of the fourth clime from the oldest extant manuscript of al-Idrisi's Nuzhat al-mushtaq, copied c. 1300.

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