CARTE - MAPPA MUNDI D EBSTORF
Language: French
Published by RELIEFS EDITIONS, 2019
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LIVRE A L?ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9791096554539.
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- Title
- CARTE - MAPPA MUNDI D EBSTORF
- Author
- EBSTORF GERVAIS D
- Publisher
- RELIEFS EDITIONS
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Used: Like New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- French
- ISBN 13
- 9791096554539
This huge mappa mundi (world map), 3.58 m by 3.56 m, is the largest known medieval map. It dates from the 13th century, although the exact date of its creation – somewhere between 1208 and 1250, or around 1300 - is still subject to debate. The map of Ebstorf respects the tradition of European and Christian cartography of the Middle Ages and illustrates the cosmographic ideas of the time. With the East at the top, it is drawn according to the classical form in TO (for Terrarum Orbis), thus respecting the conception of the world divided into three parts (Asia, Europe, Africa) and crossed by twelve winds, represented by circles in the cosmic ocean. The three continents are inscribed in the O of the ocean and are separated by the T formed by the Mediterranean and the Tanaïs rivers, today the Don (separating Europe and Asia), and the Nil (separating Asia and Africa). At the intersection of the two bars is located the city of Jerusalem, around which is hinged the world. The map represents real countries and sacred and imaginary territories: Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark... The world is inserted into the body of Jesus, who forms a cross: his head is in the direction of Paradise, his hands delimit the boundaries of the known world and his feet are in Gibraltar, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean. The places indicated are arranged as on Roman plans, that is to say, ignoring the real distances and in an approximate order, the one in which travellers would find them on their journey. In addition to religious references, the Ebstorf Map also relies on many classical sources – Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, the Amazons – or more recent - the Roman of Alexander, the Imago Mundi of Honoré d'Autun, the geographical chronicles of Adam of Bremen. It also shows the symbols of the four great rivers: the Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Ganges.
Gervais d'Ebstorf serait celui qui donne son nom à cette carte, l'une des plus anciennes et célèbres du monde. Derrière ce nom se cache peut être en réalité Gervais de Tilbury, chevalier, homme politique, écrivain et prévôt de la ville d'Ebstorf (en Basse-Saxe) au XIIIe siècle. Cependant, cette carte a également pu être simplement nommée d'après son lieu de découverte (en 1830), le couvent bénédictin d'Ebstorf, qui est probablement aussi son lieu de création. Elle a ensuite été reproduite en fac-similé par Konrad Miller en 1898, alors que l'originale a été détruite lors d'un bombardement à Berlin en 1943.
The paternity of this map is uncertain. It may have been named after its place of discovery in 1830, the Benedictine convent of Ebstorf (Lower Saxony), which is undoubtedly also where it was created. According to a commonly accepted hypothesis, it was drawn by a certain Gervais d'Ebstorf, or Gervais de Tilbury, knight, politician, writer and provost of Ebstorf in the 13th century. The medieval original was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin in 1943, but it was copied many times in the 19th century, as is the case of this facsimile reproduction by Konrad Miller in 1898.?
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This huge mappa mundi (world map), 3.58 m by 3.56 m, is the largest known medieval map. It dates from the 13th century, although the exact date of its creation – somewhere between 1208 and 1250, or around 1300 - is still subject to debate. The map of Ebstorf respects the tradition of European and Christian cartography of the Middle Ages and illustrates the cosmographic ideas of the time. With the East at the top, it is drawn according to the classical form in TO (for Terrarum Orbis), thus respecting the conception of the world divided into three parts (Asia, Europe, Africa) and crossed by twelve winds, represented by circles in the cosmic ocean. The three continents are inscribed in the O of the ocean and are separated by the T formed by the Mediterranean and the Tanaïs rivers, today the Don (separating Europe and Asia), and the Nil (separating Asia and Africa). At the intersection of the two bars is located the city of Jerusalem, around which is hinged the world. The map represents real countries and sacred and imaginary territories: Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark... The world is inserted into the body of Jesus, who forms a cross: his head is in the direction of Paradise, his hands delimit the boundaries of the known world and his feet are in Gibraltar, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean. The places indicated are arranged as on Roman plans, that is to say, ignoring the real distances and in an approximate order, the one in which travellers would find them on their journey. In addition to religious references, the Ebstorf Map also relies on many classical sources – Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, the Amazons – or more recent - the Roman of Alexander, the Imago Mundi of Honoré d'Autun, the geographical chronicles of Adam of Bremen. It also shows the symbols of the four great rivers: the Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Ganges.
Gervais d'Ebstorf serait celui qui donne son nom à cette carte, l'une des plus anciennes et célèbres du monde. Derrière ce nom se cache peut être en réalité Gervais de Tilbury, chevalier, homme politique, écrivain et prévôt de la ville d'Ebstorf (en Basse-Saxe) au XIIIe siècle. Cependant, cette carte a également pu être simplement nommée d'après son lieu de découverte (en 1830), le couvent bénédictin d'Ebstorf, qui est probablement aussi son lieu de création. Elle a ensuite été reproduite en fac-similé par Konrad Miller en 1898, alors que l'originale a été détruite lors d'un bombardement à Berlin en 1943.
The paternity of this map is uncertain. It may have been named after its place of discovery in 1830, the Benedictine convent of Ebstorf (Lower Saxony), which is undoubtedly also where it was created. According to a commonly accepted hypothesis, it was drawn by a certain Gervais d'Ebstorf, or Gervais de Tilbury, knight, politician, writer and provost of Ebstorf in the 13th century. The medieval original was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin in 1943, but it was copied many times in the 19th century, as is the case of this facsimile reproduction by Konrad Miller in 1898.?
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