Al-Idrisi's 12th-century map of England, from a late 13th-/early 14th-century copy, BnF Arabe 2221 f.338v-339r (South is at the top) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000547t/f623.item …pic.twitter.com/NSbetKcptB
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Al-Idrisi's 12th-century map of England, from a late 13th-/early 14th-century copy, BnF Arabe 2221 f.338v-339r (South is at the top) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000547t/f623.item …pic.twitter.com/NSbetKcptB
Very interesting article. When trying to map a new area in our minds it is easy to become disoriented. When I moved to South Devon it took me years to place all of the towns, I realised this was due to the way the rivers incised the coast and determined much of the road layout
Thanks! And yes, I think this is very true :)
is Britain joined to France in this map?
No, it's separated by the Channel :)
Did Idrisi actually drawn this map or reconstructed?
It's basically his, stitched together from the surviving manuscripts of his individual map sheets (e.g. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/743367756498800640 …) and then with the Arabic names transliterated :)
Thank you.
Didn't do so well with Italy...
They can be very tough to parse
100% thought this was an early map of southern ontario and the great lakes at first glance...
I can see the resemblance!
Amazing 
the old down-under
I love this map - must of used it a dozen times in my narrative on the Early Islamic Conquest
Not that I’m complaining, but he made Brittany and Australia too big.
I wonder what the big inland lakes in what appears to be Eastern Europe and Western Asia are supposed to represent. Are they named?
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