#manuscript maps

[poligraf]

« Jain Cosmological Map of the Universe - Jambudvipa » [Artist not mentioned] « Jambudvīpa is the dvipa ("island" or "continent") of the terrestrial world, as envisioned in the cosmologies of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, which is the realm where ordinary human beings live. »

[yeoldegodzilla]

Godzilla represented 'Terra Incognita' on medieval maps.

[allamericanb-tch]

“the only thing that’s left is the manuscript” but it’s the map after the marauders are all gone

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 28 is a portolan atlas - that is, maps concerned with coastlines and ports. Made in Venice between 1535 and 1538, it includes maps of Britain, the Mediterranean, the Aegean sea, Adriatic Sea, and others, and a map of the world (part 2 of 2)

Online: https://bit.ly/3THQfpQ

[worldhistoryfacts]

Jesuit missionaries were some of the first westerners to enter China in the 1500s. They made a sincere attempt to understand Chinese culture.

One of the Jesuits’ first projects was to learn Chinese in order to translate Western works into Chinese and vice versa. Here’s a page of a Portuguese-Chinese dictionary compiled by two Jesuits, Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri:

The Ming were particularly interested in the Europeans’ knowledge of geography — it was the age of European exploration, after all. Jesuits like Ricci provided the Chinese with very detailed maps of Asia:

Chinese people were just as fascinated with the discovery of the Americas as Europeans were, so the Jesuits filled them in on what was known about the lands across the Pacific:

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[mapsontheweb]

Places mentioned in the Cairo Geniza—a depository of medieval manuscripts found in an Egyptian synagogue

[gradling]

Therapist: The version of Walter Map to whom the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is attributed isn't real and can't hurt you.

Walter Map in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle:

[miabrown007]

only making a playlist about them when you're already dating--a win for the hopeless romantic girlies

[garadinervi]

Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006)

(image: Octavia E. Butler, 'Map of Acorn' from notes for 'Parable of the Talents', ca. 1994. © Octavia E. Butler/Octavia E. Butler Estate with Writers House, LLC acting as agent for the Estate. From: Mapping Fiction, Library's West Hall, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, January 15 – May 2, 2022)

[gwinforth]

I respect (read: sneer at, with every fibre of my being) the capitalist-cancer hustle of constantly having to Invent Product (thing you can advertise), Advertise Product, Money$$money.

i.e. Reddit's CEO claiming they can't keep giving a "product" "away" "for free"

when the product is the countless volunteer hours of moderators, the expertise of people in knowledgeable communities like r/sysadmin, and the charming cats of r/chonkers

It wounds my sense of honor and fair play! All of Web 2.0 does. Every walled garden, aka unindexed knowledge black holes, like Tiktok, Slack, Discord. (Aside: I don't understand the techbro optimism about Web 3.0 being "decentralized" and thus, more accessible to everyone. What they mean is more accessible to "content creators" and the small number of MBAs who are driving each decision about when to slam the prison doors closed, a la Reddit.)

I passively take in my share of meaningless internet content, don't get me wrong! But the people who are on the internet to do things, like collaborate on problem-solving (whether it's cloud platform migration or weaving), the internet is actively hostile to them.

Like, libraries are fantastic, right? Human culture was enriched when we developed the printing press, so that copies of the same books could be in many, many libraries. The corporatized internet is disassembling the printing press, right? I don't want to have to sail to Alexandria (Discord) or Lindisfarne (Slack) to troubleshoot this extremely esoteric internal vs. external Azure tenant-wide setting.

[gailynovelry]

A sneak peek of the new formatting I'm giving Heralds of Rhimn!

[alexbyrth]

布哇海戦対水上艦船戦果圖・昭和十六年十二月八日

Estimated damage report against surface ships on the air attack of Pearl Harbor, December 8th, 1941

Hawai Kaisen tai suijō kansen senkazu, Shōwa jūrokunen jūnigatsu yōka

Manuscript map by Mitsuo Fuchida, 1902-1976, cartographer.

Created / Published in Japan, 1941.

According to Fuchida's autobiography, the map was used for Fuchida's briefing of the Emperor on December 26, 1941.

The map shows details of the attack, including the names of about 60 ships and the weapons they carried, the amount of ammunition used for attack, the extent of damage, the direction and location of torpedo hits on U.S. ships, the bombs that landed, the alphabet and Japanese "iroha" assigned to each ship, and black dotted lines indicating the course of the Nevada-class ships.

Source:

[xxhwoarangxx]

[pastlifememoirs]

1634 - front page - Atlas Minor, of Gerardi the Mercator: edited image from grey tone.

Atlas Minor, of Gerardi the Mercator, enlarged and illustrated by I. Hondius with many tables of the age: again revised and improved with the addition of new drawings. Amsterdam Ex Officina, Joannis Jansson II

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 28 contains 7 double-page navigational maps, probably from the workshop of Battista Agnese. Coastlines are in colored washes of yellow, red, blue, or green; place names are written by at least 2 hands (part 1 of 2)

Online:

[ddsmithstudio]

Hello Tumblr! I wanted to have another cozy space to share my art with new people so this is the beginning for me. I recently had my first ever solo art exhibition and these are the pieces I created for it! I'll be making separate posts with more detailed shots of each piece as well.

I make traditional art using a dip pen, India ink, and watercolors. I am primarily interested in cartography but I love to do ink illustrations and practice calligraphy as well. I hope you enjoy!

"Duggard Reel" 12" x 36"

"The University of Alabama" 24" x 32"

"USS Tuscaloosa in Profile" 10" x 20"

"Cryptids of the Southeast!" 16" x 20"

"Tuscaloosa & Northport, Downtowns of" 18" x 18"

"Battle of Mobile Bay" 16" x 20"

"Birthplace of the Delta Blues" 21" x 27"