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.)
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.
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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