Medieval Islamic Views of the Cosmos. The Books of Curiosities

In June 2002, the Bodleian Library acquired an illustrated manuscript of a hitherto unknown Arabic cosmographical treatise, the Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn, known as the Book of Curiosities. The manuscript is a copy, probably made in Egypt in the late 12th or early 13th century, of an...

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Main Authors: Department of Oriental Collections, Savage-Smith, E, Rapoport, Y, Fletcher, A
Format: Dataset
Published: University of Oxford 2020
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