Mathew Paris' 13th Century Map of United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland is 1 of the really offset geographical maps of Great Britain. However, despite beingness arguably the offset modern map of Britain, it is soundless quite hard to navigate. H5N1 lot of the actual geography is incorrect together with the place-names tin hold out hard to interpret into modern English.
I convey so created an Annotated Matthew Paris Map of Britain. On my map y'all tin only click on a place-name on the map to abide by the equivalent modern English linguistic communication place-name. For illustration if y'all click on 'Eboracum' on the map an information window volition opened upwards informing y'all that this is the metropolis nosotros know equally 'York'.
I convey translated over 90% of the place-names on the map, withal a few of the place-names convey me bamboozled. If y'all convey whatever ideas virtually the names I convey failed to interpret together with so delight experience gratis to exit a comment on this post.
My map is entirely possible because of the Stanford Libraries. They convey created an IIIF manifest of Corpus Christi College's master copy manuscript of Matthew Paris' map. I convey so been able to run Leaflet-IIIF, a uncomplicated to run plug-in for using IIIF manifests inwards Leaflet, to exercise a Leaflet.js map from the IIIF manifest of Matthew Paris' map.
