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Mappa Dan

@mappadan.bsky.social
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Archaic maps and mappae mundi, reconstructions and snaps people have taken of them, and my own redrawings. Mostly.

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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unfortunately, my computer crashed so this version is now fragmentary bits. So I did a new one that's much the same... ☺️
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Far as I can see, although part of the division between Asia and Africa is unclear, this isn't a T and O Map.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Was thinking of Armenian churches like this one in a C19th photo...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There are examples a bit like your Jerusalem in mappae mundi, although not the Hereford!
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Better version of the same reconstruction by Konrad Miller. swanrad.ch/mappaemundi/...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Helpful Isidore of Seville World Map reconstruction
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You get your eye in for things that repeat like the letters a and t. So, after a bit of practice, you realise the inscription below is Tanatus.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wikipedia text box
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Original, aligned east.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reoriented redrawing of the Sciapod in the south of the Osma Beatus mappa mundi, with translated text (redrawing and translation are my own work, best as I can manage).
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Real mappa...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Took a while, but here's a redrawing. No text as yet. Visigothic script is quite odd.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
British summer. Never stops raining.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Osma Beatus Mappa, c.1086
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Earliest photo of the Hereford Mappa, by Thomas Ladmore in 1868, when it was still attached to the back panel: shows that the vellum was pegged to the wood with tacks which were placed around the edge. The tacks are lost.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Original Osma sciapod.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My redrawing of the same sort of hominid, this one an ocodactyl version, in the Hereford Mappa, completed c.1300.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My redrawing of the Sciapod in the Burgo de Osma Beatus Mappa from c.1086. Odd-looking dude.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sawley Mappa redrawing. Not mine, but well drawn. Roughly 1200. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawley_...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The original. Unusual red ocean. And a branch of the Nile that debouches into the Red Sea (like the canal of the Pharaohs).
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here's my redrawing of the mappa of Guido of Pisa from 1119. East-oriented.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Original.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Redrawing of the Anglo-Saxon Mappa, said to be from the second quarter of C11th.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Reframed, redrawn Hereford Mappa (updated frame apex).
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And in between the early maps and the later ones, the picture of Northern Europe develops ... partly because Vikings! Here is Northern Europe in the C11th Anglo-Saxon/ Cotton mappa.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Original.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Albi or Merovingian Mappa Mundi. Original drawn in C8th. Redrawing is my own work.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Latin version of Vatican Mappa as I read it (with Amazonian region adjusments), in case it might be helpful for your Mappa mundi class.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And this is roughly what it looked like before dust and dirt, candlesmoke and sunlight worked upon the surface of the Mappa.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It is displayed opposite the Mappa. There is a C19th photo of the two together but I cannot find it online. Here's my recombining of them.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
John Carter’s sketch of the Hereford Mappa Mundi and devotional doors, c.1780. BL Additional MS, 29942, fol. 148r. [Doors were added later and are now lost]
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Redrawing of the background of the circular map of the Hereford Mappa. Colours differentiate regions.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The original.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
C8th Vatican Mappa background redrawing. Own work.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Medieval map view of Cestria/ Chester on the River De/ Dee (in modern redrawing by me!).
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Background landscape of the Anglo-Saxon Mappa. Aligned east.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In my redrawing...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
No problem. Needs both a close-up and a wider view. Jerusalem is the cog-wheel like centre of the Mappa.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Here you go!
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Are we sure it was a rape? He isn't looking so miserable here. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Is this a triumphal entry? If that is a donkey.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trying to identify each of the images. Nice embarrassed temptation scene.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Here are the places along and near the Nile that feature in the Hereford Mappa Mundi (including someone's suggested identification of an unnamed Nubian town).
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And then map places relevant to mappae mundi on my own map...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Today's Mappa monster: a basilisk....
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today's mappa monster: a sphinx...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today's Mappa Monster: a manticora...
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today's Mappa Monster is .... Tigolopes.
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Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It looks like it, doesn't it! in and m are very similar in this style of handwriting (textura). But here's how they did capital Ys: with a dot over the top.
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