Mappa Mundi: The greatest map of the medieval world | BBC Global

My "Map Men" bros go way back with the mappa mundi

Thumbnail did its job

I would like to see more detail on the map and its locations.

Audio levels are all over the place, and many shots are lacking basic color correction. Come on BBC, you're better than this!

The website of the Museo Galileo has an entire site dedicated to this map, which includes (buried in section 2) the possibility of navigating it in great detail. It's great to be able to zoom in and see the details, read the places, identify where they are today. Keep in mind that it also has little drawings of palaces, temples, sepulchers, etc. It's like being Indiana Jones on a budget. There's also a "fra-mauro-transcriptions" PDF somewhere online, that has the list of all the toponyms, and texts translated and annotated relating the map to modern day.

Who did the sound levels for this video?

this is really interesting, I wish it was longer

Looking at that thumbnail, i can tell that this is quite a unique situation where the booty leads one to the map instead of the other way around.

The biggest Mappa Mundi is in Hereford Cathedral. It hung on a wall there unprotected and unstudied for centuries before anybody thought it'd be pretty neat to actually preserve the thing. It has these fantastic depictions of the various mythical beasts thought to reside pretty much "anywhere that is not here".

It's incredible how orienting it differently changes it so much. I was thinking that the map wasn't nearly accurate compared to modern maps, but decent for medieval maps, but then once It was rotated it was amazing how close it was to reality.

After watched this from the start to the end, I'm still wondering who the lady in the thumbnail is......

This is so intriguing.

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Such a beautiful map

Really cool!!!

Fundamental, is legend good work

Nice informative 👍

Great video

Juan de la cosa, the first mapa mundi of the new world. In Madrid is amaizing

Al idrissi map was very close in accuracy and 3 centuries older, he probably doesn't have the most accurate map in medival times but he's defintely the greatest cartographer