My favorite so far, a mappa mundi placing Jerusalem at the center of the universe, with the three surrounding continents stretching off like the petals of a trillium. ❋ Matociquala (2009)
I know it's not a mappa mundi, my writing life comments: ❋ Kat Howard (2009)
With mappa novus I noticed that the maps were from '07. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There found he also a mappa mundi figuring the earth and the seas and the different cities and countries and villages of the world; and he found a vast saloon full of hermetic powder, one drachm of which elixir would turn a thousand drachms of silver into fine gold; likewise a marvellous mirror, great and round, of mixed metals, which had been made for Solomon, son of ❋ Unknown (2006)
The consul wears a richly-embroidered cloak; his right hand holds a staff surmounted by the Roman eagle, his left the mappa circensis, or napkin used for starting the races in the circus; at his feet are palms and bags of money — prizes for the victors in the games. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Though it's unlikely that everybody will now be able to uncover Roman tumuli and overgrown Greek amphitheatres in their backyard from the improved mappa mundi, users will now be able to see buildings in three dimensions--and a file format allows budding Mercators to create their own 3D models of houses, sheds and decks which can then be placed into Google Earth. ❋ Forbes.com Staff (2006)
Since mappa mundi aren't actually orienteering maps, but conceptual ones -- a worldview, rather than a view of the world, if you will -- I think you may still proudly keep your disdain for modern maps while also being fascinated by mappa mundi. ❋ Heo (2006)
Quidam in sua mappa Islandi�, 20. millaria comunuo cursu assequi tradit cuiusdam parosci� equos. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Qu騞 autem quidam in mappa Islandi� de prouinca Skagefiord annotauit, sub eodem tecto homines, canes, sues et oues, viuere, partim falsum, partim minim� mirandum est. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sed tamen priusquam alio diuertamur, in hac parte attingendum videtur, quod idem ille in mappa Islandi�, quam sub suo nomine, pr鎑icto anno edi fecerat, de duobus, pr鎡er supra dictos, fontibus Islandi� prodidit: quorum alter lanas albas colore nigro, alter nigras, albo inficiat. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Quidam in sua mappa Islandiæ, 20. millaria comunuo cursu assequi tradit cuiusdam parosciæ equos. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sed tamen priusquam alio diuertamur, in hac parte attingendum videtur, quod idem ille in mappa Islandiæ, quam sub suo nomine, prædicto anno edi fecerat, de duobus, præter supra dictos, fontibus Islandiæ prodidit: quorum alter lanas albas colore nigro, alter nigras, albo inficiat. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Quòd autem quidam in mappa Islandiæ de prouinca Skagefiord annotauit, sub eodem tecto homines, canes, sues et oues, viuere, partim falsum, partim minimè mirandum est. ❋ Unknown (2003)
_, 'Scipio Africanus et Laelius feruntur tam fuisse familiares et amici Lucilio, ut quodam tempore Laelio circum lectos triclinii fugienti Lucilius superveniens eum obtorta mappa quasi feriturus sequeretur.' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
On the diptych of Boetius at Brescia (487) and several others of the same type the consul is clad in a trabea (a kind of toga); he holds in his left hand the scipio (consular sceptre) and in his right the mappa circensis, or white cloth which he used to wave as the signal for the games in the circus. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Ancient remains show many proofs of this: for instance, the mappa with which the consul or praetor gave the signal for the commencement of the games was a similar cloth. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The consul wears a richly-embroidered cloak; his right hand holds a staff surmounted by the Roman eagle, his left the _mappa circensis, _ or napkin used for starting the races in the circus; at his feet are palms and bags of money -- prizes for the victors in the games. ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1896)
[639] Jurgia proludunt; sed mox et pocula torques Saucius, et rubra deterges vulnera mappa. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The bulb closely resembles those in Cooke's figure (Illustrations, 4) of _A. mappa_. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
