MEDEIVAL VIEWS OF THE COSMOS; MAPPING EARTH AND SKY AT THE TIME OF THE
BOOK OF CURIOSITIES
A major exhibition being held in the Bodleian Library this summer looks at
the cartographic traditions of mediaeval Europe and the Islamic world and
has as its centrepiece the unique 11th-century Arabic treatise:
Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels of the Eyes = Kitab
Ghara'ib al-Funun wa-Mulah al-`Uyun
which was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 2002. Most of the
illustrated pages of the Book of Curiosities are displayed in public for
the first time, alongside many Western and Islamic manuscripts and
artefacts from Oxford collections.
The exhibition runs from June 7 to 20 October 2004, Monday to Friday 09.30
to 16.45, Saturday 09.30 t0 12.30, in the Bodleian Library Exhibition
Room, Old School Quadrangle, Broad Street, Oxford.
For further details see:
http://www.bodley.ox.uk/bookofcuriosities
Paul Auchterlonie
University of Exeter
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