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1215Magna Carta
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1220A medieval death
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1225Laws of Forests
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1235Illustrated Tiger and a Knight
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1240Medieval illuminator
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1245Early English Song
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1250Matthew Paris's Map of Britain
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1250Medieval Bestiary
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1260Decorated initial with musicians
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1261Chronicle of Mann
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1265Medieval world map
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1275A medieval siren
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1280French Hebrew Manuscript
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1290Expulsion of Jews
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1291Surviving book of Jewish Law
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1295Women in power
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Intro
This is one of four maps of Great Britain drawn in the 1250s by Matthew Paris, a monk at St Alban’s Abbey. Paris’s maps are the oldest surviving maps to show such a high level of detail and accuracy. He was perhaps the first medieval mapmaker to try to portray the actual physical appearance of the country rather than just represent the relationship between places in simple diagrams. Many geographical features are recognisable, although the map raises questions about the home nations: Scotland, Wales....and Devonia?
Shelfmark: Cotton MS Claudius D.vi, f.12v
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