Article ID: CBB890778352

Reframing the World: The Materiality of Two Mappaemundi in BL, Add. MS 28681 (2020)

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In the field of medieval cartography, the Psalter World Map (BL, Add. MS 28681, fol. 9r) has come to stand in scholarship as an exemplar of the medieval world view. While the World Map has received wide attention, its relationship to the List Map on the verso and the psalter manuscript as a whole has been less discussed. A close material analysis of folio 9 reveals that the two maps were pasted into a frame which had been cut out of the folio. Thus, the maps were constructed separately from the psalter text itself. Moreover, a codicological examination of the first ten folios of the manuscript shows multiple moments of rearrangement and intervention, reinforcing the importance of material analysis in the study of maps and manuscripts. The new information concerning the insertion of the World Map and the List Map into folio 9 opens up unexplored possibilities regarding their place of origin and dating since they can no longer be tied to the 1262 date of the manuscript. (English)

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Authors & Contributors
Savage-Smith, Emilie
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Lewy, Mordechay
Pischke, G.
Chollier, Alexandre
Felicitas Schmieder
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Mappae mundi
Science and religion
Geography
Science and culture
Time Periods
Medieval
16th century
12th century
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Europe
Atlantic world
Volga River
Middle and Near East
Cairo (Egypt)
Milan (Italy)
Institutions
David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University
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