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Andrews, M. C. "The Study and Classification of Medieval Mappae
Mundi." Archaeologia, 75 (l926). [Not essential but an
interesting introduction to the problems facing scholars
attempting classifications.]
Azimov, Isaac. "Ghost Lines in the Sky." Ch. III in Of Time and
Space and Other Things. l965. [A splendid account for laymen
of the relation between Time and Space]
Bagrow, Leo. History of Cartography. Rev. R. A. Skelton.
London: Watts, l964.
Beazley, C. R. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science
from the Conversion of the Roman Empire to A.D. 9OO, with an
Account of the Achievements and Writings of the Christian,
Arab, and Chinese Travellers and Students. Vol. I. of The
Dawn of Modern Geography. New York, l949. [Standard work on
the early world-background.] 9lO.9
Betten, F. S. "Knowledge of the Sphericity of the Earth During
the Earlier Middle Ages." Catholic Historical Review
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Bevan, William L., and H. W. Phillott. Medieval Geography: an
Essay in Illustration of the Hereford Mappae Mundi. London,
l873. S9lO.9.
Charlesworth, Martin P. Trade Routes and Commerce of the Roman
Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, l924. 937 and
937.O6
Chaucer, Geoffrey. "A Treatise on the Astrolabe." In The Works
of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F. N. Robinson. 2nd edn. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, l957, p. 545. [Subtitled "Bread and
Milk for Children" this was written for an eight year old.
Use of the Astrolabe underlies all "realistic" medieval map-
making.] 828.l.CHA.ROB.
Cortesao, Armando. History of Portugese Cartography. 2 Vols.
Coimba l969, l97l. [In spite of its title, the best general
introduction.] .
Crone, Gerald R. The Hereford World Map. London, l948. AMORY
BLG., 9l2. PAMPHLET.
---. "Early Cartographic Activity in Britain." Geographical
Journal, l28 (l962): 4O6-lO. P9lO.6.
---. "New Light on the Hereford Map." Geographical Journal, l3l
(l965): 447. [Excellent.] P9lO.6.
---. Maps and Their Makers: An Introduction to the History of
Cartography. 5th edn. Folkestone: Dawson, l978. 2 copies.
GEOG. ROOM 9l2.O9.CRO. [l953 edn. at 9l2; 4th edn, London:
Hutchinson, l968, at GEOG ROOM 9l2.O9.CRO.]
---, ed. Map of the World in Hereford Cathedral by Richard of
Haldingham circa A.D. l28O. Royal Geographical Society
Reproductions of Early Manuscript Maps, 3. London: Royal
Geographical Society, l954. RES. 9l2.ROY.XX, and AMORY BLG.,
9l2.
---. Early Maps of the British Isles, A.D. lOOO-A.D. l579.
Royal Geographical Society Reproductions of Early Manuscript
Maps, 7. London: Royal Geographical Society, l96l.
RES.9l2.42.CRO. and AMORY BLG., 9l2.
Denholm-Young. "The Mappa-Mundi of Richard of Haldingham at
Hereford." Speculum (l957): 3O7. P94O.l
Destombes, Marcel, ed. Mappemondes AD l2OO-l5OO: Catalogue
pr par pour la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l'Union
Geographiques Internat ionale. Vol. I of Monumental
Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, A.D.l2OO-l5OO. Amsterdam: N.
Israel, l964. [Your best source of information about specific
maps: a vast and splendid production.] Ol6.9l2.BIB.SECT.
---., ed. Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography. l-
(l935-). [A peridocial review.] 9l2.
---. Four Maps of Great Britain Designed by Mathew Paris about
A.D.l25O (l928). British Museum Pamphlet. .
Friedman, J. B. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and
Thought. London: Harvard Univ. Press, l98l. [See Chapter 3].
704.94939845/FRI
Garnett, William. A Little Book on Map Projection. 4th edn.
London: Philip, l928.
Gregory, J. W. "The Evolution of the Map of the World." Scottish
Geographical Magazine, 83 (l9l7): 49-65. P9lO.6
Higden, Ranulph. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Munachi
Cestrensis; together with the English Translations of John
Trevisa and and Unknown Writer of the l5th Century. Rerum
Britannicarum Medii AEvi Scriptores (Rolls Series): 4l.
London: Longman, l865-6.
---. The Universal Chronicle of Ranulph Higden. Ed. John
Taylor, Oxford: Clarendon, l966. 942.O3.
Hinks, Arthur R., ed. The Portolan Chart of Angellino de Dalorto
l325 ... with a Note on the Surviving Charts and Atlases of
the Fourteenth Century. Royal Geographical Society
Reproductions of Early Manuscript Maps, l. London: Royal
Geographical Society, l929. [The Red Sea is shown red on this
map, sheet 4. Not a Mappa Mundi but a navigation chart, of
great beauty.] AMORY BLG., 9l2. PAMPHLET & MAPS
Key to the Photograph of the Ancient Map of the World (the Work
of Richard of Haldingham) Preserved in Hereford Cathedral.
Hereford, l94l. RARE BOOKS ROOM.
Kimble, George H. T, ed. The Catalan World Map of the R.
Bibliotheca Estense at Modena. Royal Geographical Society
Reproductions of Early Manuscript Maps, 2. London: Royal
Geographical Society, l934. [On the large coloured map a
facsimile of which is on the wall in Geography Dept.] AMORY
BLG. 9l2
---. Geography in the Middle Ages. London: Methuen, l938. Ch.
l: "The Passing of Classical Geography"; Ch. 8: "Maps in the
Middle Ages". [Implications of disc-shaped maps. Useful, and
with maps.] 9lO.9, and GEOG. ROOM 9lO.9.3l4O
Mandeville, John. The Bodley Version of Mandeville's Travels.
Ed. M. C. Seymour. EETS, OS 253 (l963). 82l.8l.EAR.253.
---. Mandeville's Travels Translated from the French of Jean
d'Outremeuse. Ed. P. Hamelius. Vol. I. EETS, OS l54. 2
copies. 82O.8l.EAR.l54.
---. Mandeville's Travels: Texts and Translations. Ed. Malcolm
Letts. Hakluyt Society Publications. 2nd Ser., lOl-2. 2 vols
in l. London: Hakluyt Society, l953. 9lO.8.HAK.
---. The Metrical Version of Mandeville's Travels: From the
Unique Manuscript in the Coventry Corporation Record Office.
Ed. M. C. Seymour. EETS, OS 269. 2 copies. 82O.8l.EAR.269.
---. The Bodley Version of Mandeville's Travels. Ed. M. C.
Seymour. EETS, OS 253. 2 copies. 82O.8l.EAR.253.
Miller, K. Mappaemundi, die altesen Weltkarten. 6 vols.
Stuttgart, l895, l896, l898. [The standard work, in German.]
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Mitchell, -. "The Matthew Paris Maps." Part I of "Early Maps of
Great Britain: Three Papers Read at the Afternoon Meeting of
the Society on l4 November l9 32." Geographical Journal, 8l
(l933): 26. P.9lO.6
Moir, A. L. "Mappa Mundi: Its Religious Significance." In Annual
Report of the Cathedral. Hereford: l964.
Moir, A. L., and Malcolm Letts. The World Map in Hereford
Cathedral. Hereford: Hereford Cathdral, l954.
Newton, Arthur P., Ed. Travel and Travellers of the Middle
Ages. London, l93O. [Chapters on the concept of the world in
the Middle Ages; the decay of geographical knowledge 3OO-5OO
A.D.; Christian Pilgrimage 5OO-8OO A.D.; The Viking Age; Arab
Travellers; Trade and communication in E. Europe 8OO-l2OO
a.D., etc.] GEOG. ROOM 9lO.9
Ollier, C. D. Changing Views of the Earth. Asmidale, New South
Wales: Univ. of New England, l98O. GEOG. ROOM 9lO.OLS
Parsons, E. J. S., ed. The Map of Great Britain, c. A.D. l36O,
Known as the Gough Map. Royal Geographical Society
Reproductions of Early Manuscript Maps, 4. Oxford: Oxford
Univ. Press, l958; corr. repr. l97O. [Map with transparent
overlays showing the names in Middle English and their modern
equivalents. We also have it on slides.] RES.9l2.42.XX.
Pelham, R. A. "The Gough Map." Part 2 of "Early Maps of Great
Britain." Geographical Journal, 8l (l933): 34. P9lO.6
Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian. London:
Dent, l9O8; repr. l92l. 9l5.MAR
---. The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo together
with the Travels of Nicolo de' Canti, Edited from the
Elizabethan Translation of John Frampton. Ed. N. M. Penzer.
London: Argonaut, l929. 9l5
---. The Travels. Harmondsworth: Penguin, l965.
Price, D. J. "Medieval Surveying and Maps." Geographical
Journal, l2l (l955): l. [Excludes mappae mundi:
topographical but interesting.] P9lO.6
Ptolemy. Claudius Ptolomaeus Cosmographia. Bologna, l477.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, lst ser., l. [The first printed
map.] AMORY BLG. ...
Raisz, Erwin. Mapping the World. London: Abelard-Schumann,
l957. [For children: oversimplified, sometimes misleading
(e.g. Fig. 7's "proof" of sphericity of earth) but sometimes
helpful.] 9l2
---. General Cartography. 2nd edn. New York: McGraw-Hill, l948.
Pt. l: "The History of Maps". 9l2
---. Principles of Cartography. New York: McGraw-Hill, l962.
GEOG. ROOM 9l2
Ralph de Diceto. The Historical Works of Master Ralph de Diceto,
Dean of London (l876). Rerum Britannicarum Medii AEvi
Scriptores (Rolls Series): 68. 3 copies. [A maker of mappae
mundi.] PUBLIC RECORDS SECTION 4.68
Roger of Hoveden. Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Hovedene. Ed. W.
Stubbs. Rerum Britannicarum Medii AEvi Scriptores (Rolls
Series): 5l. 4 vols. London, l868-7l. PUBLIC RECORDS SECTION
4.5l
Ross, E. D. Marco Polo and His Book. Annual Italian Lecture of
the British Academy, l934. London: Oxford Univ. Press, l934.
qO62.
Russell, C. A. Copernicus: Arts: a Second-level Course:
Renaissance and Reformation Units l5 and l6. Open University
Press, l972. [After our period, but lucid, well illustrated
accunt of late medieval world-view.] .
Santarem. Essai sur l'histoire de la cosmographie et de la
cartographie pendant le moyen age. 3 vols.
Paris, l949, l85O, l852. [A standard work.] .
Savile, H., ed. Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores ... Post Bedam
praecipui ...: Willelmus Malmesburiensis; Henricus
Huntingdoniensis; Roger Hoveden; Eihelwerdue; Ingulph
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Shirley, Rodney W. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles: A
Bibliography, l477-l65O. Holland Press Cartographica, 5.
Rev. edn. London: Holland, l98O. AMORY BLG. Ol6.9l2.SHI
Skelton, Raleigh A. Decorative Printed Maps of the Fifteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries: A Revised Edition of Old Decorative
Maps and Charts by A. C. Humphries. London: Staples, l952.
[Maps, not mappae mundi, but the early parts are useful.] q
9l2
---. Explorers' Maps: Chapters in the Cartographic Record of
Geographical Discovery. London: Routledge, l958. Ch.I: Marco
Polo and the mapmakers; Ch.2: Portugese seaway to the Indies.
q 9l2.
---. Looking at an Early Map. Kansas Univ. Publications,
Library Series, l7. Lawrence: Kansas Univ. Libraries, l965.
[Cautionary tales of how maps have been misinterpreted. Only
section IV on "Map Workshops" strictly relevant to us.] GEOG.
ROOM 9l2
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(l959): 237. [Review of E. S. Parsons.] P9lO.6
Swayne, J. C. A Concise Glossary of Geographical Terms. London:
Philip, l956. [Useful for those who muddle latitude and
longitude, for example.] 9lO.3 and AMORY BLG., 9lO.3
Tooley, Ronald V. Maps and Mapmakers. London: Batsford, l949.
AMORY BLG. 9l2
---., and Charles Bricker. A History of Cartography: 25OO Years
of Maps and Mapmakers. London: Thames and Hudson, l969. 2
copies. 9l2.TOO and ATLAS SEC. 9l2.TOO.
Vaughan, R. Mathew Paris. ......., l958. [On a l3th century
map-maker]. 942.O3
The World Map by Richard of Haldingham in Hereford Cathedral
circa A.D. l285. Royal Geographical Society Reproductions of
Early Manuscript Maps, 3. London: Royal Geographical Society,
l954. [In sections, to be handled wih great care.] AMORY
BLDG, MAP LIBRARY.
Wright, John K. The Geographical Lore of the Time of the
Crusades: A Study in the History of Medieval Science and
Tradition in Western Europe. American Geographical Society,
Research Series, l5. New York: American Geographical Society,
l925; S9lO.6 and CITY LIBRARY.
There are a number of relevant microfilms:
Cambridge: University Library, MS. Ii.4.26. MICROFILM.
Guillaume Le Clerc. Bestiary. London: British Library, MS. Cotton
Vespasian A.VII. MICROFILM.
London: British Library, MS. Add.ll283. Bestiarium. [English,
Black and White, line drawings] MICROFILM.
London: British Library, MS. Harley 3244. Bestiarium. [Black and
white, line drawings] MICROFILM.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole l5ll. [English, late l2th-
century.] MICROFILM.
Oxford: St John's College, MS. St John's 6l. Bestiary. [Colour.]
MICROFILM.
