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    English: Fars / Khorasan (Isfahan). From 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.
    Date between 1300 and 1500
    date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    Source The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    Author Muhammad al-Idrisi
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