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Author Van Duzer, Chet, 1966- author.

Title Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript / by Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines
Published Boston : Brill/Hes & De Graaf, [2015]

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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
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Includes transcriptions of the Latin texts found on the maps, with English translations following
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Subject Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscript. HM 83
SUBJECT Book of hours (HM 1173) fast
Subject 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
Genre/Form History
Maps
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004307278
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