Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Unfortunately, my computer crashed so this version is now fragmentary bits. So I did a new one that's much the same... ☺️ 130
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Far as I can see, although part of the division between Asia and Africa is unclear, this isn't a T and O Map. 151
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Was thinking of Armenian churches like this one in a C19th photo... 020
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There are examples a bit like your Jerusalem in mappae mundi, although not the Hereford! 121
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Better version of the same reconstruction by Konrad Miller. swanrad.ch/mappaemundi/... 020
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026You 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. 230
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Reoriented 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). 141
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Took a while, but here's a redrawing. No text as yet. Visigothic script is quite odd. 172
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Earliest 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. 110
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My redrawing of the same sort of hominid, this one an ocodactyl version, in the Hereford Mappa, completed c.1300. 130
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My redrawing of the Sciapod in the Burgo de Osma Beatus Mappa from c.1086. Odd-looking dude. 141
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Sawley Mappa redrawing. Not mine, but well drawn. Roughly 1200. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawley_... 040
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The original. Unusual red ocean. And a branch of the Nile that debouches into the Red Sea (like the canal of the Pharaohs). 081
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Here's my redrawing of the mappa of Guido of Pisa from 1119. East-oriented. 372
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Redrawing of the Anglo-Saxon Mappa, said to be from the second quarter of C11th. 2203
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Reframed, redrawn Hereford Mappa (updated frame apex). 3244
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026And 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. 020
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Albi or Merovingian Mappa Mundi. Original drawn in C8th. Redrawing is my own work. 44812
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Latin version of Vatican Mappa as I read it (with Amazonian region adjusments), in case it might be helpful for your Mappa mundi class. 152
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026And this is roughly what it looked like before dust and dirt, candlesmoke and sunlight worked upon the surface of the Mappa. 120
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It 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. 120
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026John 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] 141
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Redrawing of the background of the circular map of the Hereford Mappa. Colours differentiate regions. 241
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Medieval map view of Cestria/ Chester on the River De/ Dee (in modern redrawing by me!). 020
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Background landscape of the Anglo-Saxon Mappa. Aligned east. 141
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026No problem. Needs both a close-up and a wider view. Jerusalem is the cog-wheel like centre of the Mappa. 130
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Are we sure it was a rape? He isn't looking so miserable here. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... 110
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Trying to identify each of the images. Nice embarrassed temptation scene. 150
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Here 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). 120
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026And then map places relevant to mappae mundi on my own map... 120
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026It 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. 120