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The Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral records how 13th-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms (shown here in a present-day copy, translated from the original Latin into English)
The map bears the name of its author, ‘Richard of Haldingham or Lafford’ (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map.
Mappa Mundi is drawn on a single sheet of vellum (calf skin) measuring 1.58 × 1.33 metres, with Jerusalem at the centre.
The 500 or so drawings include 420 cities and towns, 15 Biblical events, 33 plants, animals, birds and strange creatures, 32 images of the peoples of the world and 8 pictures from classical mythology.
www.herefordcathedral.org/mappa-mundi
- image by Phil Brandon Hunter - www.philbhu.com - P8050123a
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Of special interest for me as an Scandinavian is the depiction of northern Europe. To the right is an overlapping map of Poland.
Denmark in the middle, Norway and Sweden at the top.
I wonder why Great Britain has received a special colour on the map while Ireland to the west has the same colour as the rest of the countries.
The black structure top left could be Iceland I guess.
Unfortunately it is impossible to read most of the names.
A rendere unico il "Fontanone" è indubbiamente anche la sua posizione scenografica. Quando si passeggia durante le ore notturne l'enorme vasca rispecchia la luna e crea una cornice unica per chi si affaccia dal belvedere. Non è un caso, dunque, che il luogo suggestivo abbia ispirato cantanti, poeti e registi, tra cui Paolo Sorrentino che l'ha inquadrata in indimenticabili scene del film La Grande Bellezza.
The Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral records how 13th-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms (a close-up detail of the original shown here).
The map bears the name of its author, ‘Richard of Haldingham or Lafford’ (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map.
Mappa Mundi is drawn on a single sheet of vellum (calf skin) measuring 1.58 × 1.33 metres, with Jerusalem at the centre.
The 500 or so drawings include 420 cities and towns, 15 Biblical events, 33 plants, animals, birds and strange creatures, 32 images of the peoples of the world and 8 pictures from classical mythology.
- image by Phil Brandon Hunter - www.philbhu.com - P8050133u
- for more on the same subject click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/191876035@N02/albums/72177720301171901
The Mundi Mundi Lookout gives a great opportunity to photgraph sunsets, with a great expanse of flatness stretching out before you. Or, as we call it here, South Australia :)
Una foto que no pensaba procesar, pero escuchando música que hace tiempo que no me ponía y concretamente Rodrigo Leao y Madredeus, pensé en intentar recuperar algo más de Menorca.. un saludo. Recomiendo la música.. creo que la foto gana bastante xD
Caput Mundi International Burlesque Award
a cura di Albadoro Gala e Bibbio Silvio Cossi / SDC Service, ospite del Gay Village con il suo centinaio di artisti in tre giorni
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