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Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-century Manuscript

By Chet Van Duzer , Ilya Dines

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2015
ISBN
9004304533, 9789004304536
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34621322 bytes)
Pages
251\261
Library
Brill
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-03-03 13:50:33

Description

In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.

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