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| Keywords: Spanish-Arabic map of 1109.jpg en Spanish-Arabic map of 1109 <p> B Mus Add mss 11695 The original gorgeously coloured represents the crudest of Christian and Moslem notions of the world Even more crude than in the Turin map and the Mappe-Monde of St Sever both of which offer some resemblances to this The earth is represented as of quadrangular shape surrounded by the ocean At the E is Paradise with the figures of the Temptation A part of the S is cut off by the Red Sea which is straight and coloured red just as the straight Mediterranean with its quadrangular islands divides the N W quarter or Europe from the S W quarter or Africa The Ægean Sea joins the Mediterranean at a right angle in the centre of the map In the ocean bordering the whole are square islands e g Tile Thule Britania Scocia Fu o rtunarum insula The Turin map occurs in another copy of the same work ”A Commentary on the Apocalypse Source http //www gutenberg org/files/18757/18757-h/ http //www gutenberg org/files/18757/18757-h/images/map06 jpg Author 1109 PD-old-100 T-O map with Eden at the top T and O map Garden of Eden | ||||
