New Medieval Digital Maps


The Oxford Outremer Map is a thirteenth-century map of State of Israel in addition to Palestine. The map equally good encompasses parts of modern 24-hour interval Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Arab Republic of Egypt in addition to Jordan. The map seems to describe the share sometime betwixt 1229 in addition to 1244, when Christians had command of Jerusalem. The map itself was likely built to aide European pilgrims to Jerusalem.

The Fordham Medieval Digital Projects has created an interactive version of the Oxford Outremer Map. The digital version of the map includes interactive place-names. If you lot click on a place-name on the map you lot tin flaming read a translation, a brief description in addition to a link to persuasion this location on a modern digital map.

You tin flaming read to a greater extent than close the Oxford Outremer Map in addition to how it was digitized on the Fordham Medieval Digital Projects website.


The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest surviving medieval map of the world. The map is on display inward Hereford Cathedral, UK. If you lot can't teach to Hereford to persuasion the map inward individual you lot tin flaming at to the lowest degree persuasion the map online. Mappa Muni allows you lot to explore in addition to evidence the details of the map inward a good designed interactive presentation.

The online version of the map includes a color enhanced persuasion in addition to a 3d Scan Factum view. The 3d persuasion includes some interesting data close the vellum used to exercise the map in addition to reveals of import facts close how the map was created in addition to where spell repairs to the map convey been made over the centuries.

The online Mappa Mundi includes a release of map markers that let the viewer to explore locations on the map inward detail. Jerusalem is at the pump of the map in addition to East is at the top. If you lot direct whatever of the markers you lot tin flaming persuasion a close-up of the location in addition to read close some of the cities, people, beasts in addition to myths depicted on the map.


The Gough Map or Bodleian Map is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain. The map likely dates dorsum to the 14th or 15th centuries.

There is some combat over the historic menstruum of the Gough Map in addition to Linguistic Geographies has been attempting to response the query of who made the map & when yesteryear examining the linguistic communication in addition to place-names used on the map. Their inquiry of the map's linguistic communication suggests that some of the map’s writing dates to merely about the 1370s. The inquiry equally good institute evidence that some of the place-names on the map convey been overwritten at subsequently dates.

You tin flaming evidence the map in addition to the map's linguistic communication yourself inward unopen exceptional on The Linguistic Geographies digital version of the map.
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