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Showing posts with label 11th century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 11th century. Show all posts
Saturday, November 13, 2010
World Map 11th Century
Description: "Cotton" of Anglo-Saxon world map (c. 1040) appears in a copy of a classical work on geography (British Library; Cotton MSS, Tib. B. V, folio 56.)
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(Highest res.: png, 1827 x 2256 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 6,31 MB)
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
World Map 11th Century
Description: World map of Mahmud al-Kashgari. Turcocentric world map published in al-Kashgari's "Compendium of the languages of the Turks" in the 11th century. The map is oriented with east on the top and the world is shown as encircled by the ocean.
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(Highest res.: jpg, 741 x 670 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 128 KB).
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