25 Mar

File:Etymologiae Guntherus Ziner 1472.jpg

{{artwork
← Older revision
Revision as of 17:05, 25 March 2013
Line 1:
Line 1:

== {{int:filedesc}} ==

== {{int:filedesc}} ==
−
* T and O style ''mappa mundi'' (map of the known world) from the first printed version of Isidorus' ''Etymologiae'' (Kraus 13). The book was written in 623 and first printed in 1472 at ''Augsburg'' by one ''Günther Zainer (Guntherus Ziner),'' Isidor's scetch thus becoming the oldest printed map of the occident.
+
{{Artwork
−
* Note: T-O-maps are typically displayed "East-up", show ''Jerusalem'' at he center and the ''paradise'' at the outmost East, balanced by the ''pillars of Hercules'' at the outmost West.
+
|artist=Isidore of Seville
−

+
|title=
−

+
|description=* T and O style ''mappa mundi'' (map of the known world) from the first printed version of Isidorus' ''Etymologiae'' (Kraus 13). The book was written in 623 and first printed in 1472 at ''Augsburg'' by one ''Günther Zainer (Guntherus Ziner),'' Isidor's sketch thus becoming the oldest printed map of the occident.

+
* Note: T-O-maps are typically displayed "East-up", show ''Jerusalem'' at the center and the ''paradise'' at the outmost East, balanced by the ''pillars of Hercules'' at the outmost West.

+
|date=

+
|medium=

+
|dimensions=

+
|institution=

+
|location=

+
|references=

+
|object history=

+
|exhibition history=

+
|credit line=

+
|inscriptions=

+
|notes=

+
|accession number=

+
|source=

+
|permission=

+
|other_versions=

Image:Etimologías - Mapa del Mundo Conocido.jpg|Same map in different sample of the book.

Image:Etimologías - Mapa del Mundo Conocido.jpg|Same map in different sample of the book.

Image:T and O map Guntherus Ziner 1472.jpg|Same, cropped

Image:T and O map Guntherus Ziner 1472.jpg|Same, cropped
Line 9:
Line 9:

Image:Radkarte MKL1888 edited (T and O style, east-up).png|The T and O scheme: According to [[Augustine of Hippo]] (354-430), "Asia's size equals the sum of Europe's and Africa's".

Image:Radkarte MKL1888 edited (T and O style, east-up).png|The T and O scheme: According to [[Augustine of Hippo]] (354-430), "Asia's size equals the sum of Europe's and Africa's".

+
}}

+

+
=={{int:license-header}}==

+
{{PD-Art-100}}

[[Category:T and O map]]

[[Category:T and O map]]

[[Category:Isidore of Seville]]

[[Category:Isidore of Seville]]
−

[[Category:Günther Zainer]]

[[Category:Günther Zainer]]
−
{{PD-Art}}[[Category:1472]]
+
[[Category:1472]]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Etymologiae_Guntherus_Ziner_1472.jpg&diff=93261616&oldid=26557158