Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Greaves 42

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Bodleian Library

Shelfmark

• Bodleian Library MS. Greaves 42

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q214726

Language

• Arabic

Title

• Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Šarīf Abū ʿAbd Allâh al- Idrīsī (1100?-1165?)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Idrīsī, ca. 1100-1166

  Other form

  • AL-IDRĪSĪ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
  • Idrīsī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Šarīf Abū ʿAbd Allâh al- (1100?-1165?)
  • Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
  • محمد ابن محمد الإدريسي
  • see more

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  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdata8f4a07a588e80668c1451024851758ea812eee48

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q12170

Description

• The 'book of pleasant journeys into faraway lands', or 'Book of Roger', Tabula Rogeriana. Undated, ca. 14th or 15th-century manuscript of al-Idrisi's description of the world composed in 1152. This manuscript contains the first three portions (of seven) of al-Idrisi's medieval Arabic geography, describing the known world from the equator to the latitude of North Africa, and from the Atlantic to Eastern China.

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Digitisation

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Manifest URL

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