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Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Some identifiable places include Persia, Galilee, Rhodes and Cyprus. The map is oriented with east to the top.
Slide is labelled "British Museum ADD MS 10049 for 64 r JEROME"

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

From Album 3 (Red)

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

From Album 3 (Red)

This world map occupies two pages of a manuscript and is oriented with the East at the top where a framed picture of Adam, Eve and Serpent can be seen. Ethiopia and Libya are identified and the Mediterranean is a narrow channel rising from the…

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Couple standing at a stile.

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

From Album 3 (Red)

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Dating from the mid 13th century this is the first (extant) map to incorporate the travel reports of Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta. It shows Asia up to India, marking places like the Delhi Sultanate and others with reasonable accuracy. The atlas also…

From Album 3 (Red)

From Album 3 (Red)
Two women walking dogs down the lane

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

Camborne School of Mines lantern slide

A copy of a 6th century map by Cosmas, showing the known world, centred on the Mediterranean Sea. It includes the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates and also the Arabian and Persian Gulfs.
The slide is labelled "The Cosmas Map"