Matthew Paris' Map of U.K. is 1 of the starting fourth dimension always geographical maps of Britain. It was made yesteryear a 13th Century monk called Matthew Paris. The map is 1 of the starting fourth dimension medieval maps to movement away from a schematic project design (e.g. a strip map or road map) in addition to to instead endeavor an accurate geographical representation.
The map was made hundreds of years earlier the evolution of accurate surveying tools. It is thus remarkable how accurate the map is. However it does comprise many errors ....
My Matthew Paris' Map of Britain is a brusque story-map that I created to explore some of Matthew Paris' errors in addition to to cause to sympathise the geographical innovation he had of U.K. inwards the 13th Century. The map also includes modern English linguistic communication translations of the medieval place-names. Just click on the map to stance these translateions.
This map was created using Leaflet.js. It also uses Leaflet-IIIF, to import the IIIF manifest of Corpus Christi College's manuscript of Matthew Paris' map into Leaflet. The story-element makes heavy role of waypoints.js to trigger the map actions on page scroll.
