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The History of Cartography, Volume 1
THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY VOLUME ONE EDITORIAL ADVISORS Luis de Albuquerque Joseph Needham J. H. Andrews David B. Quinn J6zef Babicz Maria Luisa Righini Bonellit Marcel Destombest Walter W. Ristow o. A. W. Dilke Arthur H. Robinson L. A. Goldenberg Avelino Teixeira da Motat George Kish Helen M. Wallis Cornelis Koeman Lothar Z6gner tDeceased THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY 1 Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean 2 Cartography in the Traditional Asian Societies 3 Cartography in the Age of Renaissance and Discovery 4 Cartography in the Age of Science, Enlightenment, and Expansion 5 Cartography in the Nineteenth Century 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY VOLUME ONE Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean Edited by J. B. HARLEY and DAVID WOODWARD THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS • CHICAGO & LONDON J. B. Harley is professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, formerly Montefiore Reader in Geography at the University of Exeter. David Woodward is professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1987 by The University ofChicago Allrights reserved. Published 1987 Printed in the United States ofAmerica 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 8 7 654 This work is supported in part by grants from the Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency Additional funds were contributed by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Geographic Society The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library The Johnson Foundation The Luther I. -
Manuscript's Shelfmark Contents Link to Digitised Manuscripts Add Ch
Manuscript's shelfmark Contents Link to Digitised Manuscripts Add Ch 54148 Bull of Pope Alexander III relating to Kilham, http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_54148&index=0 Yorkshire Add Ch 76659 Confirmations by the Patriarch of Constantinople of http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_Ch_76659 the stavropegiacal rights of the Monastery of Add Ch 76660 Confirmations by the Patriarch of Constantinople of http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_Ch_76660 the stavropegiacal rights of the Monastery of Add MS 10014 Works of Macarius Alexandrinus, John Chrysostom http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10014 and others Add MS 10016 Pseudo-Nonnus; Maximus the Peloponnesian; http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10016 Hilarion Kigalas Add MS 10017 History of Roman Jurisprudence during the Middle http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10017 Ages, translated into Modern Greek Add MS 10022 Procopius of Gaza, Commentary on Genesis http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10022 Add MS 10023 Procopius of Gaza, Commentary on the Octateuch http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10023 Add MS 10024 Vikentios Damodos, On Metaphysics http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10024 Add MS 10040 Aristotle, Categoriae and other works with scholia http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10040 Add MS 10057 Euripides, Tragedies with scholia http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10057 -
The Map Psalter and Its Mixed-Media Maps
A Tale of Two Mappae Mundi: The Map Psalter and its Mixed-Media Maps by Melissa La Porte A Thesis Presented to The University of Guelph In partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art and Visual Culture Guelph, Ontario, Canada © Melissa La Porte, April, 2012 ABSTRACT A Tale of Two Mappae Mundi: The Map Psalter and its Mixed-Media Melissa La Porte Advisor: University of Guelph, 2012 Professor D. Marner This thesis investigates small-scale mappae mundi, world maps, created in the thirteenth-century, which record the historical, mythical, social, and religious reality of the world for wealthy English patrons. My research focuses on two maps found in a Psalm book (British Library Add. MS 28681, f. 9 and f. 9v) on either side of a single page. One depicts the world in typical mappae mundi fashion, with Jerusalem at the centre of a network of cities, topographic features and monstrous creatures while the other lists place names and geographic descriptions. The maps depict the world in very different manners, one textually and the other visually, but their placement on the same leaf emphasizes their connection. This work explores the iconography, socio-historic context and literary precedence of mappae mundi in order to comprehend the distinct need for mixed-media to represent and understand a complex worldly existence in thirteenth-century England. Acknowledgments I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Sally Hickson for her continued support and helpful advice, Dr. Andrew Sherwood for his thorough editing and classical expertise and Dr. -
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Manuscript's Contents Link to Digitised Manuscripts shelfmark Add Ch 54148 Bull of Pope Alexander III relating to http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_Ch_54148&index=0 Kilham, Yorkshire Add Ch 76659 Confirmations by the Patriarch of http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_Ch_76659 Constantinople of the stavropegiacal rights of the Monastery of Theotokos Chrysopodariotissa near Kalanos, in the province of Patras in the Peloponnese Add Ch 76660 Confirmations by the Patriarch of http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_Ch_76660 Constantinople of the stavropegiacal rights of the Monastery of Theotokos Chrysopodariotissa near Kalanos, in the province of Patras in the Peloponnese Add MS 10014 Works of Macarius Alexandrinus, http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10014 John Chrysostom and others Add MS 10016 Pseudo-Nonnus; Maximus the http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10016 Peloponnesian; Hilarion Kigalas Add MS 10017 History of Roman Jurisprudence http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10017 during the Middle Ages, translated into Modern Greek Add MS 10022 Procopius of Gaza, Commentary on http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10022 Genesis Add MS 10023 Procopius of Gaza, Commentary on http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10023 the Octateuch Add MS 10024 Vikentios Damodos, On Metaphysics http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_10024 Add MS 10040 Aristotle, Categoriae and -
Introduction I
Introduction This volume continues to show that there were clear differences in the character of Western medieval world maps, depending on the sub-period in which they were created, and the continued progress that was being made in Asian cartography. It is thus not possible to generalize accurately for the mappaemundi of this thousand-year period variously referred to as the “Medieval Period”, the “Middle Ages”, or even the “Dark Ages”. In what David Woodward calls the Patristic period, from about A.D. 400 to 700, three basic cartographic traditions - the Macrobian, Orosian, and Isidorian - were established, and these do recur throughout the entire medieval period. In the second period, from about 700 to 1100, in which a larger sample of mappaemundi first appears, little innovation is seen in Europe except in the maps of Beatus (#207, Book IIA), despite the renewed interest in natural science; however, considerable expertise was becoming evident in Asia. It is not until the third period, from about 1100 to 1300, with the influx and translation of numerous Arabic and Greek manuscripts, especially the Almagest by Ptolemy (#119, Book I), that scientific interest re-awakens (for examples of maps from these two early medieval periods, see #200-#226 in Book IIA of these monographs). The last period, from about 1300 to 1500 and the subject of this volume, stands apart from the earlier tradition of mappaemundi and acts as a transitional stage between the medieval and modern worlds of mapping. The three frameworks of maps: monastic, nautical, and Ptolemaic, which had for a while each enjoyed a separate and parallel development in Europe, came together in the 15th century and set the stage for the technical advances of the European Renaissance.