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The Sawley map in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

The Sawley map, formerly known as the 'Henry of Mainz' map, is the earliest surviving

Honorius of Autun. It is oriented with east (and the Garden of Eden) at the top and the island of Delos at the centre.[1]

The map takes up the second page (

ex libris in Latin: Liber s[an]c[t]e Marie de Salleia, 'book of Saint Mary's of Sawley'.[5][6]

The map depicts three continents—

Orkneys are depicted in the same way.[8]

The Sawley map is usually grouped with other encyclopaedic mappae mundi of the same period, such as the

Ebstorf map (the latter destroyed by bombing in the Second World War).[2][4] It contains much fanciful material and many pieces of information derived from the Bible and the classics.[1] It may belong to a northern French tradition, if it was copied from the mappa mundi which Bishop Hugh of Le Puiset bequeathed to Durham Priory in 1195.[9]

The misattribution of the map to Henry of Mainz, possibly the future Archbishop Henry I, stems from a misreading of the prologue, which states that this version of the Imago mundi was edited by Henry in 1110. It does not mention the map, which is not an integral part of the Imago but was created decades later.[10] Whether or not the Cambridge MS. 66 version of the text was even edited by any Henry of Mainz has been challenged.[11][12] No other manuscript of the Imago contains a copy of the Sawley map or one like it.[12] The only thing that can be said for certain of the connection between the Sawley map and the accompanying text is that they could be found bound together at Sawley shortly after 1200.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Delano-Smith & Kain 1999, pp. 36–37.
  2. ^ a b c d Dragnea 2021, p. 3.
  3. ^ a b c Licini 2007, p. 471.
  4. ^ a b Harvey 1997, p. 33.
  5. ^ Harvey 1997, p. 36.
  6. ^ Licini 2007, p. 472.
  7. ^ Dragnea 2021, pp. 13–14.
  8. ^ Dragnea 2021, pp. 14–15.
  9. ^ Harvey 1997, pp. 36–37.
  10. ^ Licini 2007, pp. 472–473.
  11. ^ Dragnea 2021, p. 5.
  12. ^ a b Harvey 1997, p. 35.
  13. ^ Harvey 1997, p. 37.

Bibliography

  • Delano-Smith, Catherine; Kain, Roger J. P. (1999). English Maps: A History. University of Toronto Press.
  • Dragnea, Mihai (2021). "Constructions of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery: The Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 72 (4): 1–25.
    doi:10.1017/s0022046920002596
    .
  • Harvey, P. D. A. (1997). "The Sawley Map and Other World Maps in Twelfth‐century England". Imago Mundi. 49 (1): 33–42.
    doi:10.1080/03085699708592857
    .
  • Licini, Patrizia (2007). "A Full Image of a Cultural Space: The Sawley Mappa Mundi as a Global Memory Hypertext". In Ulrich Knefelkamp; Kristian Bosselmann-Cyran (eds.). Grenze und Grenzüberschreitung im Mittelalter: 11. Symposium des Mediävistenverbandes vom 14. bis 17. März 2005 in Frankfurt an der Oder. Akademie Verlag. pp. 470–489.
    doi:10.1524/9783050049892.470
    .

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