/ en /mappa-mundi-oxford-new-college-ms-274-and-aristotelian-theory-elements <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2023-12/Trinity%20College%20Library%2C%20Cambridge%2C%20MS%20R.9.23%2C%20f.%2060v.jpg.webp?itok=TGoyn4Mv" width="655" height="435" alt="Trinity College Library, Cambridge, MS R.9.23, f. 60v [detail]" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> The Mappa Mundi in Oxford, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, MS 274 and the Aristotelian Theory of Elements </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Alfred Hiatt</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2023): 20</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/88" hreflang="en">Library Manuscript</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/52" hreflang="en">Library Manuscripts</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/510" hreflang="en">MS 274</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/511" hreflang="en">Pliny the Elder</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/512" hreflang="en">Mappa Mundi</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/412" hreflang="en">Maps</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/513" hreflang="en">Macrobius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/514" hreflang="en">14thC history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/515" hreflang="en">Richard de Bury</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/516" hreflang="en">Aristotle</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>One of several intriguing features of MS 274 is the map of the world that appears prior to the manuscript’s copy of the first nineteen books of Pliny the Elder’s <em>Natural History</em>. It was clearly designed to express the Aristotelian theory that only the known world, comprising Asia, Europe, and Africa, protruded above the ocean, in opposition to theories that proposed the possibility of antipodal lands beyond and beneath the known world.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>World map in a 12th-century English manuscript of Macrobius’s <em>Commentary on the Dream of Scipio</em><br>Trinity College Library, Cambridge, MS R.9.23, f. 60v [detail]<br>© The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>Trinity College Library, Cambridge</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2023-12/20NCN2%20%282023%29%20Hiatt%20on%20MS%20274.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=374397" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">20NCN2 (2023) Hiatt on MS 274.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">365.62 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:11:38 +0000 Christopher 2920 at /node/2597 <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2022-12/The%20world%20map%20in%20Mercator%E2%80%99s%20atlas%2C%20utilising%20the%20now%20famous%20Mercator%20projection.jpg.webp?itok=NCSBzHYR" width="655" height="435" alt="The world map in Mercator’s atlas, utilising the now famous Mercator projection—°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.32.7" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> Representing Reality: A Century of Dutch Golden Age Maps at °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">William Shire</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2022): 18</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/412" hreflang="en">Maps</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/413" hreflang="en">Atlases</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/80" hreflang="en">Library Antiquarian</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/414" hreflang="en">Abraham Ortelius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/415" hreflang="en">BT1.24.1</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/416" hreflang="en">Gerardus Mercator</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/417" hreflang="en">BT1.32.7</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/418" hreflang="en">Andreas Cellarius</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/419" hreflang="en">BT1.32.8</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library holds a trio of beautiful Dutch Golden Age atlases: a fine copy of one of the first world atlases ever produced, the <em>Theatrum Orbis Terrarum</em> from 1584, a tenth edition of Gerhard Mercator’s famous atlas from 1630, and Andreas Cellarius’s <em>Harmonia Macrocosmica</em> of 1660.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.32.7—<em>Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas</em> (1630)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2022-12/18NCN5%20%282022%29%20Shire%20on%20Representing%20Reality.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1220058" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">18NCN5 (2022) Shire on Representing Reality.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">1.16 MB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:29:25 +0000 Christopher 2597 at