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Welcome to the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) landing site of the open-access Virtual Mappa project, an ongoing collection of networked digital editions of early medieval maps of the world (mappa mundi), built on the digital humanities platform resource Digital Mappa (version 2.0). You can navigate above (top-right) to the project DOI metadata, and you can return to this blog post space for ...
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The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. Dating from ca. 1300, the map is drawn in a form deriving from the T and O pattern. It is displayed at Hereford Cathedral in ...
Feb 14, 2024 · Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Almost twice as large as the famous ...
A mappa mundi (Latin [ˈmappa ˈmʊndiː]; plural = mappae mundi; French: mappemonde; Middle English: mappemond) is any medieval European map of the world. Such maps range in size and complexity from simple schematic maps 25 millimetres (1 inch) or less across to elaborate wall maps, the largest of which to survive to modern times, the Ebstorf map , was around 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) in diameter.
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The three geographers receive a sealed directive. Made c.1300, the mappa mundi is drawn onto a single sheet of vellum (calf skin) measuring 1.59 x 1.34 metres (5’2” by 4’4”). The circle of the world is described within a pentagonal shape that echoes the shape of the calf-skin it is drawn on, the apex of the whole artefact being the head ...