A mappa mundi (Latin [ˈmappa ˈmʊndiː]; plural = mappae mundi; French: mappemonde; Middle English: mappemond) is any medieval European map of the world...

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...

some photographs and colour copies remain. The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a detailed mappa mundi based on the T and O map style, dating to c. 1300. The map...

Japanese animation studio Mappa Hall, a historic home in Oneida County, New York, owned by Adam Gerard Mappa a Dutch patriot Mappa mundi, Medieval European maps...

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. No other records...

library of chained books in the world, its most famous treasure being the Mappa Mundi, a medieval map of the world created around 1300. The map is listed on...

especially in the later medieval period, for example, on the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Associations between Jews and devils were established, and a belief...

vivid colours with a painted scene of the Virgin and Child holding the Mappa Mundi. A reliquary containing his skull has been held at Downside Abbey in...

from a French manuscript of Henry of Huntingdon, late 13th century Mappa Mundi in La Fleur des Histoires, 1459–1463. The Bünting cloverleaf map. A 1581...

formerly known as the 'Henry of Mainz' map, is the earliest surviving mappa mundi (world map) made in England. It was made between about 1180 and the early...

in Sintra. Designed by the architect Cristino da Silva, it includes a Mappa mundi that is 14 metres wide, showing the routes of Portuguese carracks and...

people were also illustrated and described on medieval maps. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (ca. 1300) places the "Blemee" in Ethiopia (upper Nile system), deriving...

form along the lines of the much earlier Babylonian World Map. Known as Mappa Mundi (cloths or charts of the world) these maps were circular or symmetrical...

ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen") is a historic mappa mundi drawn by the German Protestant pastor, theologian, and cartographer Heinrich...

from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Mappa and chained library were transferred to the Mappa Mundi Charitable Trust and a new building designed...

The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in...

The word "map" comes from the medieval Latin: Mappa mundi, wherein mappa meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and mundi 'of the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened...

International Map of the World List of map projections List of world map changes Mappa mundi Maps of the world Rhumbline network Theorema Egregium Time zone Large-Scale...

do not give the mountains’ name." Notable examples: the Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi (the Cotton map or Cottoniana, c. 1025‒50), the Ebstorf Map (c. 1240)...

The Ebstorf Map was an example of a mappa mundi (a Medieval European map of the world). It was made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man...

Armstrong took the lead role at short notice in Shelagh Stephenson's play Mappa Mundi in 2002, replacing Ian Holm who withdrew due to illness. In 2006, he...

elements) and a small geographical mappa mundi (a term used for medieval European map of the world). This mappa mundi is of particular interest to contemporary...

gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs, Place elephants for want of towns". Mappa mundi – Medieval European maps of the world Terra incognita – "Unknown land"...

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...

sources). The first mention of the name Georgia is in Italian on the mappa mundi of Pietro Vesconte dated 1320. At the early stage of its appearance in...

The Vinland Map was claimed to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of North America but is now known to be a...

as Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire in 1998. In 1988, when the Mappa Mundi was under threat, he was appointed chairman of the trustees of the Hereford...

ground and are shaded by the great size of their foot. The Hereford Mappa Mundi, drawn c. 1300, shows a sciapod on one side of the world, as does a world...

Sienese School Mudéjar Medieval cartography Italian school Majorcan school Mappa mundi Renaissance Italian Renaissance Trecento Proto-Renaissance Florentine...

Cloisters Cross, for example, or, more recently identified, the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Edward I is also identified as internationally significant, as the first...