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The Map of Great Britain circa A.D. 1360 known as the Gough Map Preserved in The Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sanders, William Basevi. “Map of England and Scotland (author unknown) preserved in the Bodleian Library; probable date, about 1300.” In The Thirty-Second Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records 1 ...
The Gough Map or Bodleian Map is a Late Medieval map of the island of Great Britain. Its precise dates of production and authorship are unknown. It is named after Richard Gough, who bequeathed the map to the Bodleian Library in 1809. He acquired the map from the estate of the antiquarian Thomas "Honest Tom" Martin in 1774.
Apr 8, 2008 · This article was first published in the April 2008 edition of BBC History Magazine. Alixe Bovey took a journey around medieval Britain, guided by a 14th-century map, for the BBC Four medieval season. She explains what the map tells us, and reveals some of the hidden gems she found along the way.
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East is at the top. Ever since its first known public display in 1768, the Gough Map has been something of a mystery. It is the earliest sheet map of Britain, created c. 1390-1410, but little is known about its purpose or who commissioned it.
Around the year 1300, the Byzantine scholar Maximos Planudes rediscovered a copy of Geographia, written in the second century AD by Ptolemy. Maximos was able to recreate some of the maps created by the ancient cartographer, including this one showing the British Isles. Portolan Chart by Pietro Vesconte.
A MEDIEVAL MAP OF BRITAIN THE MAP OF GREAT BRITAIN, CIRCA A.D. 1360, KNOWN AS THE GOUGH MAP. An introduction to the facsimile, by E. J. S. Parsons. With: 'The roads ofthe Gough Map,' by Sir Frank Stenton. (Royal Geographical Society: Reproductions of early manuscript maps, IV. Bodleian Library: Map reproductions, I.) Oxford: University Press, 1958.
01 August 2020. The maps of Matthew Paris. Matthew Paris (b. c. 1200, d. 1259) was a monk at the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans in Hertfordshire who was renowned for his work as a chronicler, scribe, and artist.
