File:Gentil Album(1774)-fol34-Sisteme du monde.jpg

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English: Islamic cosmography, depicting a stack of 7-layered earth disks (top disk seen rimmed by emerald mountains and ocean on outer circumference), held up by an angel standing on a mound of rubies, balancing on numerous horns of a bull, which stands on a cosmic fish's back. Text in French (some Arabic) by Massabi and Meschat. From The Gentil Album (58 pages of drawings bound in a volume, made in 1774), p. 34. Held by the Victoria and Albert Museum
Date before 1774 (binding date)
Source Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Going Global in Mughal India 74. Duke University.; album; pdf text
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Sisteme du monde selon les mahometans de l'indoustan[1]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Massabi and Meschat (commentaries)
Title
Sisteme du monde selon les mahometans de l'indoustan[1]
Description
Description of Islamic cosmography, in French
Date unknown; leather-binding in 1774
Dimensions height: 53.5 cm (21 in); width: 37 cm (14.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,53.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,37.0U174728
institution QS:P195,Q213322
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shelfmark: IS.25: 35-1980
Place of creation Faizabad, Oudh (leather-binding)
Source/Photographer Ramaswamy (op. cit.)

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  1. Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Going Global in Mughal India 74. Duke University.; album; pdf text

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Earth supported by a stack consisting of an angel, ruby mountain, multi-horned bull, and fish. Islamic cosmography.

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