Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tabula Rogeriana

Tabula Rogeriana

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Original – A 1929 copy with names translittered into Latin script of the 1154 Arabic Tabula Rogeriana, upside-down with north oriented up

Reason

rare old document, very high resolution, used on 12 articles or pages

Articles in which this image appears

Muhammad al-Idrisi, Portal:History of science, History of geography, Science in the medieval Islamic world, Muslim world, Map, Cartography, Arabs, Geography and cartography in medieval Islam, Siculo-Arabic, Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe, Đại Việt

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps

Creator

Konrad Miller (1844-1933), uploaded by User:Skimel

• Comment There is another version, much less used: File:Tabula Rogeriana 1929 copy by Konrad Miller.jpg
• Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 21:07, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
• If the original wasn't North-up, I don't think we should rotate it just because. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 21:25, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
• Support – prefer un-rotated version [1]. Bammesk (talk) 00:38, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Comment: This it not the original map by Al-Idrisi, but a 20th century copy by Konrad Miller. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skimel (talk • contribs)
  • I don't mind that entirely, though the original would have been preferred. Although that said... 1929? ...How is this out of copyright in the US? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 16:06, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
• We actually do have the original, but some assembly required, as well as a 19th century assembly of the map that keeps the Arabic labels. Also [2]. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 16:23, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Adam Cuerden thanks for the links, that's very interesting. This makes me wonder if the whole map has ever been done by Al-Idrisi, or if it is a modern recreation. Skimel (talk) 10:09, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

• Currently nominated for deletion on Commons. MER-C 10:38, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
• I would greatly prefer one of the source documents (themselves copies, but at a step less removed) used by Miller. I think the latin captions and redrawing are likely to mislead readers about the content of the original. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:40, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)