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- Title:
- Untitled
- Alternate Title:
- Mer des Hystoires World Map
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Other Creators:
- Burchardus, de Monte Sion, -1285
- Date:
- 1491
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1001.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1001_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- Before 1800
- Subject:
- Religion
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 31 x 31 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map is directly descended from medieval mappamundi, dating to the 7th century AD. They were "teaching rather than locational devices," intended "primarily to provide a visual narrative of Christian history cast in a geographical framework, not to communicate geographical or cosmographical facts." Woodward 1985, 518, 519. It follows the model of the T-O map, centered on Jerusalem with East (the biblical location of Paradise) at the top. See Notes on ID #1003, T-O World Map from the Novissime Hystoriarum. Among the images on the map are the four rivers flowing from Eden, "Le Pape" in Rome, and the Devil in northern Asia. For a detailed description and analysis of the map, see Brown 2000.
There were two earlier versions of this map, in 1475 and 1488; the 1491 woodblocks contain improvements reflecting "the work of a thinking individual." Campbell 1987, 148-49. This copy came from the Paris edition of 1543.
See generally Brown 2000, Shirley # 17.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Brocardus, de Monte Sion. (1543). La Mer des Histoires. Paris: N. Couteau for Ambroise Girault.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.