Apocalyptic Cartography
Subtitle: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789004307278
Subjects: Henry e. huntington library and art gallery; End of the world; Manuscripts; Geography, medieval
Description: "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.