Image: Earliest extant map of the Nile, in al-Khwārazmī’s Kitāb ṣūrat al- arḍ
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Description: The earliest extant map of the Nile in al-Khwārazmī’s Kitāb ṣūrat al- arḍ (Picture of the Earth). Original size 33.5 × 41 cm. Blue, green, and brown gouache and red and black ink on paper.
Title: Earliest extant map of the Nile, in al-Khwārazmī’s Kitāb ṣūrat al- arḍ
Credit: Strasbourg, bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Ms 4.247 (not 4247), fol. 30v.
Author: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī.
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