Title Apocalyptic cartography : thematic maps and the end of the world in a fifteenth-century manuscript / by Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines.

Descript 1 online resource Note Includes index. Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1; Description of Huntington HM 83; 1 ff. 1r-8v, The Brief Geographical Treatise; 2 ff. 8v-12v, The Treatise on the Apocalypse; 3 ff. 13r-18r, Heterogeneous Section on Astronomy and Geography; 4 ff. 19r-25v, Treatise on Astronomical Medicine; Chapter 2; The Historical Context: Lu⁺beck in the Fifteenth Century; Chapter 3; The Author; Chapter 4; The Geographical Sections; Excerpts from the Geographical Section; Excerpts from the Section on Astronomy and Geography ; Links with the Rudimentum novitiorum; Early Thematic Mapping. The Maps in the Geographical Sections The Map on f. 1r; The Map on f. 3r; The Maps on f. 3v; The Map on f. 5r; The Map on f. 6r; The Map on ff. 6v-7r; The Map on ff. 7v-8r; The Diagram on f. 13r; The Diagrams on f. 13v; The Map on f. 14r; The Map on f. 14v; The Map on f. 15r; Chapter 5; The Treatise on the Apocalypse; Late Fifteenth-Century German Apocalypticism; The Apocalyptic Maps and Texts; The Map and Text on f. 8v; The Map and Text on f. 9r; The Map and Text on f. 9v; The Map and Text on f. 10r; The Map and Text on f. 10v; The Map and Text on f. 11r. The Map and Text on f. 11v The Map and Text on f. 12r; The Map and Text on f. 12v; Proof of Circulation: Wolfenbu⁺ttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 Helmst.; Beilage f. 1r; Beilage f. 2r; Beilage f. 2v; Beilage f. 3r; Beilage f. 3v; Other Attempts to Map the Apocalypse; Conclusions; Index. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary "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 Lu⁺beck, Germany."--Introduction, page 1. Note Includes transcriptions of the Latin texts found on the maps, with English translations following. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscript. HM 83. Book of hours (HM 1173) (OCoLC)fst01374414 Thematic maps -- History -- To 1500. Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- Lu⁺beck. End of the world -- Maps. REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers. TRAVEL -- Maps & Road Atlases. End of the world. (OCoLC)fst00909634 Manuscripts, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01008422 Thematic maps. (OCoLC)fst01149491 Germany -- Lu⁺beck. (OCoLC)fst01215522 To 1500 ISBN 9789004307278 (electronic bk.) 9004307273 (electronic bk.) 9004304533 9789004304536 9789004304536 (hardback ; alk. paper) 9004304533 (hardback ; alk. paper)