Back to Table of Contents 2 To next page Idrissi World Map Taken from www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/ and the translation from Mappae Arabicae by Miller Konrad (and several websites) |
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There is available on the internet a giant detailed version of this map | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is the rectangular map of Idris which he made years later. He used it as the basis for his many regional maps; each being a detailed section of this world map. Taken from his book : Rawd al-uns wa nuzhat an-nafs (1192) (known as the lesser Idrisi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following three maps are variations on the first one given; all taken out of different manuscripts. All are found in the Miller Atlas |
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Worldmap from the Paris manuscript | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Idris worldmap as found in the 1556 mss in Bulgaria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||