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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:36, 30 June 2019: 1,920 × 1,280 (837 KB): HombreDHojalata == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description={{es|1=Copia del Museo de la Catedral de El Burgo de Osma del mapa de los Comentarios al Apocalipsis de San Juan del Beato de Liébana.}} {{gl|1=Copia do Museo da Catedral de El Burgo de Osma do mapa dos Comentarios ó Apocalipsis ...
As most surviving zonal maps are found illustrating Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (an excerpt of Cicero's De Re Publica), this type of map is sometimes called "Macrobian". In their simplest and most common form, Zonal mappae mundi are merely circles divided into five parallel zones, but several larger zonal maps with much ...
1784 sketch of the triptych containing the Hereford Mappa Mundi, showing side panels. The map has been interpreted from a topographical and encyclopedic perspective, but more recent approaches have attempted to see the map as a work of art, that conveys meanings through symbolism and associations. [2]
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
Mare de Sala, vel de Bachu, Ruthenis Chualenske more, olim Casitum et Hircanum. The Sala or Bachu Sea, the Chualenske more of the Ruthenians, formerly Caspian and Hircanian Sea. 5°N,115°E Zeilam insula Tearisim incolis dicta, Ptol : Nauigeris. Isle of Zeilam called by the inhabitants Tenarisim, the Nanigeris of Ptolemy. 8°N,88°E 5°S,110°E
This illustration, from the calendar page of the book The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry, shows Adam and Eve being expelled from the earthly Paradise.During the Middle Ages, it was believed that the Garden of Eden was located at the eastern end of the world, and it was possible, in theory, to reach it.
Setting out in 1419, De Conti traveled throughout Asia as far as China and present-day Indonesia during a period of 20 years. In the map, many new location names and several verbatim descriptions were taken directly from de Conti's account. The "trustworthy source" whom Fra Mauro quotes is thought to have been de' Conti himself.
The word apocrypha means 'things put away' or 'things hidden', originating from the Medieval Latin adjective apocryphus, 'secret' or 'non-canonical', which in turn originated from the Greek adjective ἀπόκρυφος (apokryphos), 'obscure', from the verb ἀποκρύπτειν (apokryptein), 'to hide away'. [4]