Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …pic.twitter.com/zr0gIOcS6X
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The complete 12thC Arabic map of England is spread over multiple folios; stitched together, it looks like this (n.b. north is at the top, with the long peninsula on the right being Cornwall & that at the bottom being Scotland).pic.twitter.com/n5wU6IjFww
you mean south is at the top :)
Argh! Yes, you're right! :)
@caitlinrgreen Nice, but I'm not quite orientating myself.
@Griffiths1961 Scotland is the odd peninsula at the bottom, York-Grimsby-Boston then run up the left side (south is at top!)
@caitlinrgreen Good grief. I can make out London and Dover now. Is Durbalino Durham? And what is the snouty bit extending rigtwards?
@Griffiths1961 Yes, although it's mapped on the west side of the island, not the east! The 'beak'/snout is Cornwall etc :)
@caitlinrgreen The Germans looking '"Abdominable Bride." Sorry. :-)
@caitlinrgreen And I spelling it very badly.
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