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Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript / by Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Duzer, Chet, 1966- author.
- Dines, Ilya, author.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens--Manuscript--HM 83.
- Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
- Thematic maps--History--To 1500.
- Thematic maps.
- World maps, Manuscript.
- Geography, Medieval.
- Apocalypse in art.
- End of the world--Maps.
- End of the world.
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany--Lübeck.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- History.
- Germany--Lübeck.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 251 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Hes & De Graaf, [2016]
- Language Note:
- Includes transcriptions of the Latin texts found on the maps, with English translations following.
- Summary:
- "In this book we offer a detailed analysis of the maps and some of the text in an unusual and unstudied fifteenth-century manuscript, San Marino, Huntington Library MS HM 83, which contains interrelated texts composed in 1486-88, almost certainly in Lübeck, Germany."--Introduction, page 1.
- Contents:
- 1 Description of Huntington HM 83 4
- 2 The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth Century 15
- 3 The Author 21
- 4 The Geographical Sections 29
- Excerpts from the Geographical Section 31
- Excerpts from the Section on Astronomy and Geography 64
- Links with the Rudimentum novitiorum 76
- Early Thematic Mapping 80
- The Maps in the Geographical Sections 93
- 5 The Treatise on the Apocalypse 129
- Late Fifteenth-Century German Apocalypticism 135
- The Apocalyptic Maps and Texts 145
- Proof of Circulation: Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 Helmst 196
- Other Attempts to Map the Apocalypse 218.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004304536
- 9004304533
- 9789004307278
- 9004307273
- OCLC:
- 918590806
- Publisher Number:
- 99966717259
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