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BODLEIAN LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Summer / Autumn Exhibition 2004

"Medieval Views of the Cosmos: Mapping Earth and Sky at the time of
the 'Book of Curiosities'"

A rare opportunity to see a stunning display of medieval maps -
terrestrial and celestial

7 June to 30 October 2004
Open Monday to Friday 09.30-16.45; Saturday 09.30-12.30
Bodleian Library Exhibition Room, Old Schools Quadrangle, Broad
Street, Oxford

* Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

This major exhibition on the cartographic traditions of medieval
Europe and the Islamic World centres upon a unique 11th-century
Arabic treatise, the anonymous 'Book of Curiosities of the Sciences
and Marvels for the Eyes' acquired by the Bodleian Library in 2002,
its 400th anniversary year.

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.


Coming soon ................
'Medieval views of the Cosmos' by Evelyn Edson and Emilie Savage-Smith
128pp; over 50 colour illustrations; 250x180mm
Paperback 14.95 pounds (12.95 pounds if ordered before 1 July) -
postage 2.00 pounds (UK), 3.50 pounds overseas per book
Orders from:
Bodleian Library, Communications and Publishing Office, Broad Street,
Oxford, OX1 3BG - tel.: +44 1865 277291;
email: [log in to unmask]

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Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
tel:      01865 287119
fax:     01865 277139
email: [log in to unmask]

homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/