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English: Rectangular world map from Fatimid treatise, Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes, copy of manuscript originally written in the first half of the 11th century
Galego: Mapamundi do manuscrito árabe anónimo chamado Libro de Curiosidades, copia realizada probabelmente en Exipto entre os anos 1190 e 1210 dun orixinal fatimí escrito na primeira metade do século XI. Na Península Ibérica [canto inferior dereito] sinálase a terra dos galegos (al-Jallāliqah), indicándose ademais ―no texto sobre a extensión de al-Andalus― que fica «cara ao oeste». Tamén aparece a cidade de León (Liyūn), da cal se di que é «onde está (o rei dos galegos)».
Date late 12th - early 13th century
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Kitāb Gharāʼib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʻuyūn (كتاب غرائب الفنون وملح العيون) ('The Book of Curiosities'). Bodleian Library

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