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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...
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    A mappa mundi (Latin [ˈmappa ˈmʊndiː]; plural = mappae mundi; French: mappemonde; Middle English: mappemond) is any medieval European map of the world...
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  • but 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...
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    to Hereford Cathedral. Official site Mappa Mundi A history of the choristers and choir school of Hereford Cathedral Flickr images tagged Hereford Cathedral...
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    connotations, especially in the later medieval period, for example, on the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Associations between Jews and devils were established, and a belief...
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    people were also illustrated and described on medieval maps. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (ca. 1300) places the "Blemee" in Ethiopia (upper Nile system), deriving...
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    Cloisters Cross, for example, or, more recently identified, the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Edward I is also identified as internationally significant, as the...
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    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...
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    on the 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...
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  • particulars of northern and eastern Europe. Medieval maps such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi still assumed that Scandinavia was an island. Progress was made in...
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    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...
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    with Birmingham City and Wales national team. Hereford Cathedral dates from 1079 and contains the Mappa Mundi, a medieval map of the world dating from the...
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  • political standings. The novel was adapted for film in 2011. The Hereford Mappa Mundi features prominently in the book. Upon her husband's disappearance...
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    with north at the top: Medieval European T and O maps such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi were centered on Jerusalem with East at the top. Indeed, before the...
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    Chronica Majora (c. 1240–1253), the Psalter world map (c. 1260), the Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1300), the Angelino Dulcert (1339), the Catalan Atlas (c. 1375)...
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    the Mappa Mundi. A reliquary containing his skull has been held at Downside Abbey in Somerset since 1881. It is generally believed that the Hereford Mappa...
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  • negotiating church and heritage politics in order to keep the Mappa Mundi in Hereford. Upon the death of his father on 5 December 1978, he succeeded...
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  • temporary truce with Scotland. Approximate date – the Hereford Mappa Mundi is prepared in Hereford Cathedral. 1301 7 February – Edward of Caernarvon (later...
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    the city is one of only four places in Ireland to be named in the Hereford Mappa Mundi in 1300. The monastery, situated roughly where the Church of Ireland...
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    as Malichu, an abbreviated form of Malai Insula, in the medieval Hereford Mappa Mundi as the name of Madagascar. Another hypothesis is that Madagascar...
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    Phillott (1873). Mediæval Geography: An Essay in Illustration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi. London: E. Stanford. pp. 30–31. Avalerion. "alerion". Oxford English...
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    The St Cuthbert Gospel (£4.5M to the British Library, 2012) The Hereford Mappa Mundi The Mary Rose Flying Scotsman The last surviving World War II destroyer...
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    the top, in contrast to other maps of the same period such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi (ca. 1300), where East is on the top. Possible places of origin for...
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  • Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus...
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    antisemitic meaning is likely to have been intended, for example on the Hereford Mappa Mundi. With the prophet Elijah, he is a necessary figure in the Transfiguration...
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    from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Mappa and chained library were transferred to the Mappa Mundi Charitable Trust and a new building designed...
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    Hereford Mappa Mundi with the isles in the lower left hand corner...
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    canonisation evidence submitted for Thomas de Cantilupe, and on the Hereford Mappa Mundi. The permanent expulsion of Jews from England and tactics employed...
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    few hills and mountains noted on the Hereford Mappa Mundi, a 13th-century map of the world displayed at Hereford Cathedral. In medieval times ironstone...
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    Mandeville's veracity. The Mapping Mandeville Digital Project, ed. John Wyatt Greenlee: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville plotted onto the Hereford Mappa Mundi....
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