Map Of Mundi Hereford

Drawn at the close of the 13th century on a single calfskin, the hereford mappa mundi has survived 700 years and is now one of the most significant historical maps in. Professor debra higgs strickland | wednesday 13 july | 7pm | £10. The viewing and absorbing of god’s.

Strangers and others on the hereford mappa mundi. Mappa mundi), of a form deriving from the t and o pattern, dating from c. Hereford map facsimile by havergal 1872.tif 9,208 × 10,248;

Drawn at the close of the 13th century on a single calfskin, the hereford mappa mundi has survived 700 years and is now one of the most significant historical maps in the world.

An even greater mappa mundi, the ebstorf map, was destroyed in the allied bombing of hanover on the night of 9 october 1943. It is by far the most impressive extant map of its kind. The hereford mappa mundi is a map of the world created sometime around the late 13th century. Maps and their ghosts remind us that our sense of the world, and our place within it, are contingent.