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Author:
Kupfer, Marcia A. (Marcia Ann), author.
Title:
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: an English mappa mundi, c. 1300 / Marcia Kupfer.
Publisher:
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
ix, 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Subject:
Hereford mappa mundi.
Optics and art--Hereford--Hereford--History--To 1500.
Creation in art.
Christian art and symbolism--Hereford--Hereford--Medieval, 500-1500.
Other Authors:
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, sponsoring body.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-212) and indexes.
Contents:
An Ornament for the Church -- The Draftsman's compasse and God's Creation -- Wonder -- Specula -- Speculum -- Sion-Speculatio and the Multiplication of Species -- In conspectus dei -- Coda : Speculum sine macula -- Cartographic Figurae -- The Specular Conceit Exported.
ISBN:
0300220332
9780300220339
OCLC:
(OCoLC)929985420
LCCN:
2015045049
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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