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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1; Description of Huntington HM 83; 1 ff. 1r-8v, The Brief Geographical Treatise; 2 ff. 8v-12v, The Treatise on the Apocalypse; 3 ff. 13r-18r, Heterogeneous Section on Astronomy and Geography; 4 ff. 19r-25v, Treatise on Astronomical Medicine; Chapter 2; The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth Century; Chapter 3; The Author; Chapter 4; The Geographical Sections; Excerpts from the Geographical Section; Excerpts from the Section on Astronomy and Geography ; Links with the Rudimentum novitiorum; Early Thematic Mapping. |
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The Maps in the Geographical Sections The Map on f. 1r; The Map on f. 3r; The Maps on f. 3v; The Map on f. 5r; The Map on f. 6r; The Map on ff. 6v-7r; The Map on ff. 7v-8r; The Diagram on f. 13r; The Diagrams on f. 13v; The Map on f. 14r; The Map on f. 14v; The Map on f. 15r; Chapter 5; The Treatise on the Apocalypse; Late Fifteenth-Century German Apocalypticism; The Apocalyptic Maps and Texts; The Map and Text on f. 8v; The Map and Text on f. 9r; The Map and Text on f. 9v; The Map and Text on f. 10r; The Map and Text on f. 10v; The Map and Text on f. 11r. |
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The Map and Text on f. 11v The Map and Text on f. 12r; The Map and Text on f. 12v; Proof of Circulation: Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 Helmst.; Beilage f. 1r; Beilage f. 2r; Beilage f. 2v; Beilage f. 3r; Beilage f. 3v; Other Attempts to Map the Apocalypse; Conclusions; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In this book we offer a detailed analysis of the maps and some of the text in an unusual and unstudied fifteenth-century manuscript, San Marino, Huntington Library MS HM 83, which contains interrelated texts composed in 1486-88, almost certainly in Lübeck, Germany."--Introduction, page 1. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Includes transcriptions of the Latin texts found on the maps, with English translations following. |
| Subject |
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscript. HM 83.
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Book of hours (HM 1173) |
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Thematic maps -- History -- To 1500.
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Thematic maps. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- Lübeck.
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Manuscripts, Medieval. |
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Germany -- Lübeck. |
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End of the world -- Maps.
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End of the world. |
| Genre/Form |
Maps.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Maps.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Duzer, Chet, 1966- Apocalyptic cartography. Boston : Brill/Hes & De Graaf, [2015] 9789004304536 9004304533 (DLC) 2015034866 |
| ISBN |
9789004307278 (electronic book) |
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9004307273 (electronic book) |
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9004304533 |
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9789004304536 |
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9789004304536 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004304533 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9789004304536 |
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