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1 online resource |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscript. HM 83
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Book of hours (HM 1173) fast |
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Thematic maps -- History -- To 1500
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- Lübeck
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End of the world -- Maps
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REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers.
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TRAVEL -- Maps & Road Atlases.
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End of the world
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Manuscripts, Medieval
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Thematic maps
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Germany -- Lübeck
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Genre/Form |
History
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Maps
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789004307278 |
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9004307273 |
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9004304533 |
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9789004304536 |
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