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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.
Short title: Almanaque del Mensajero para el año 1920; Author: Viuda de M. Sundt: File change date and time: 22:32, 13 December 2020: Date and time of digitizing
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.
A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625) [1]
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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.
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]
Short title: Almanaque del Mensajero 1912; Software used: ABBYY FineReader 14: Date and time of digitizing: 19:50, 2 October 2019: File change date and time