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The Hereford Mappa Mundi, about 1300, Hereford Cathedral, England. A mappa mundi (Latin [ˈmappa ˈmʊndiː]; plural = mappae mundi; French: mappemonde; Middle English: mappemond) is any medieval European map of the world.
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 ...
Delnero, Paul, "A Land with No Borders: A New Interpretation of the Babylonian “Map of the World”", Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, vol. 4, no. 1-2, pp. 19-37, 2017 Finkel, Irving , "The Babylonian Map of the World, or the Mappa Mundi", in Babylon: Myth and Reality, ed. Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour.
Psalter world map, ca. 1260. Jerusalem is at the centre of the map; the Red Sea can be seen coloured red at upper right of the globe.. The Psalter World Map or the Map Psalter is a small mappa mundi from the 13th century, now in the British Library, found in a psalter.
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.
He’s averaging 15.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.8 3s per game, with an impressive 62/39/86 shooting split in December. With such a thin frontcourt, Toppin’s role in the rotation is ...
Montage of 8 pages (the third to sixth leaves) of the original 1375 Catalan Atlas Detail of the Catalan Atlas, the first compass rose depicted on a map. The Catalan Atlas (Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s (often conventionally dated 1375), [1] [2] that has been ...