Resumen de From tunis to venice: Traces of maghribī astronomy and geography in manuscripts from late medieval italy

C. Philipp E. Nothaft

• This article discusses the shared content of three interrelate dastronomical manuscripts from late medieval Italy,arguingthat certainel ements of this shared content trace their origins to Maghribī sources.This includes two tables of geographic coordinates with apronounced focus on locations in North Africa as well as agnomonic table for the latitude of Tunis.One of the coordinatetables is known toresemble an Arabic tableinazījbyIbnal-Raqqām,whow as active inTunis,Béjaïa,andGranada in the period1280–1315.It will be arguedthata likely explanation of this knowledg etransferlies in the documented mercantile and diplomatic contacts between the Republic of Venice and Ḥafṣid Tunisia in the decadesaround1300