Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript

Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript / by Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines.

"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...

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Main Author: Van Duzer, Chet, 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Boston : Brill/Hes & De Graaf, [2015]
Subjects:
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. > Manuscript. > HM 83.
Book of hours (HM 1173)
To 1500
Thematic maps > History > To 1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Germany > Lübeck.
End of the world > Maps.
REFERENCE > Atlases & Gazetteers.
TRAVEL > Maps & Road Atlases.
End of the world
Manuscripts, Medieval
Thematic maps
Germany > Lübeck
History
Maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1; Description of Huntington HM 83; 1 ff. 1r-8v, The Brief Geographical Treatise; 2 ff. 8v-12v, The Treatise on the Apocalypse; 3 ff. 13r-18r, Heterogeneous Section on Astronomy and Geography; 4 ff. 19r-25v, Treatise on Astronomical Medicine; Chapter 2; The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth Century; Chapter 3; The Author; Chapter 4; The Geographical Sections; Excerpts from the Geographical Section; Excerpts from the Section on Astronomy and Geography ; Links with the Rudimentum novitiorum; Early Thematic Mapping.
  • The Maps in the Geographical Sections The Map on f. 1r; The Map on f. 3r; The Maps on f. 3v; The Map on f. 5r; The Map on f. 6r; The Map on ff. 6v-7r; The Map on ff. 7v-8r; The Diagram on f. 13r; The Diagrams on f. 13v; The Map on f. 14r; The Map on f. 14v; The Map on f. 15r; Chapter 5; The Treatise on the Apocalypse; Late Fifteenth-Century German Apocalypticism; The Apocalyptic Maps and Texts; The Map and Text on f. 8v; The Map and Text on f. 9r; The Map and Text on f. 9v; The Map and Text on f. 10r; The Map and Text on f. 10v; The Map and Text on f. 11r.
  • The Map and Text on f. 11v The Map and Text on f. 12r; The Map and Text on f. 12v; Proof of Circulation: Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 Helmst.; Beilage f. 1r; Beilage f. 2r; Beilage f. 2v; Beilage f. 3r; Beilage f. 3v; Other Attempts to Map the Apocalypse; Conclusions; Index.

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