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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. 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 ...
The Sawley map, formerly known as the ' Henry of Mainz ' map, is the earliest surviving mappa mundi (world map) made in England. [1] It was made between about 1180 and the early 13th century. [2] The map is the frontispiece of a copy of the Imago mundi of Honorius of Autun.
The Hereford mappa mundi, a map of the world with Jerusalem at its centre. 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.
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 Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century BCE. [5] The map as reconstructed by Eckhard Unger shows Babylon on the Euphrates , surrounded by a circular landmass including Assyria , Urartu ( Armenia ) [ 6 ] and several cities, in turn surrounded by a "bitter river" ( Oceanus ), with eight outlying ...
Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of the map as the navel of the world, the umbilicus mundi. Asia was typically the size of the other two continents combined. [citation needed] Because the Sun rose in the east, Paradise (the Garden of Eden) was generally depicted as being in Asia, and Asia was situated at the top portion of the map.
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
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 of psalters found from the Middle Ages have a mappa mundi. [1] The Psalter mappa mundi was likely used to provide context for the Bible's stories as well as a visual narrative of Christianity ...