The Oxford Outremer Map is a thirteenth-century map of State of Israel too Palestine. The map likewise encompasses parts of modern twenty-four hr menstruation Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Arab Republic of Egypt too Jordan. The map seems to clit the percentage sometime betwixt 1229 too 1244, when Christians had command of Jerusalem. The map itself was in all likelihood built to aide European pilgrims to Jerusalem.
The Fordham Medieval Digital Projects has created an interactive version of the Oxford Outremer Map. The digital version of the map includes interactive place-names. If you lot click on a place-name on the map you lot tin read a translation, a brief description too a link to persuasion this location on a modern digital map.
You tin read to a greater extent than nearly the Oxford Outremer Map too how it was digitized on the Fordham Medieval Digital Projects website.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest surviving medieval map of the world. The map is on display inwards Hereford Cathedral, UK. If you lot can't larn to Hereford to persuasion the map inwards someone you lot tin at to the lowest degree persuasion the map online. Mappa Muni allows you lot to explore too test the details of the map inwards a good designed interactive presentation.
The online version of the map includes a color enhanced persuasion too a 3d Scan Factum view. The 3d persuasion includes some interesting data nearly the vellum used to practise the map too reveals of import facts nearly how the map was created too where piece repairs to the map convey been made over the centuries.
The online Mappa Mundi includes a seat out of map markers that permit the viewer to explore locations on the map inwards detail. Jerusalem is at the middle of the map too East is at the top. If you lot direct whatever of the markers you lot tin persuasion a close-up of the location too read nearly some of the cities, people, beasts too myths depicted on the map.
The Gough Map or Bodleian Map is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain. The map in all likelihood dates dorsum to the 14th or 15th centuries.
There is some scrap over the historic menstruation of the Gough Map too Linguistic Geographies has been attempting to answer the query of who made the map & when past times examining the linguistic communication too place-names used on the map. Their enquiry of the map's linguistic communication suggests that some of the map’s writing dates to some the 1370s. The enquiry likewise constitute bear witness that some of the place-names on the map convey been overwritten at after dates.
You tin test the map too the map's linguistic communication yourself inwards closed special on The Linguistic Geographies digital version of the map.
