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T and O map

Index T and O map

A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625): "...the Isidoran tradition as it was known from peninsular examples, including the earliest of the ubiquitous T-O maps. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 53 relations: Abbey library of Saint Gall, Africa, Ancient Libya, Antipodes, Aristotle, Asia, Augustine of Hippo, Babylonian Map of the World, Bünting cloverleaf map, Beatus map, Beatus of Liébana, Biblical terminology for race, Brunetto Latini, Cambridge University Press, Cartography, Commentary on the Apocalypse, Continent, Crusades, Delos, Don (river), Early world maps, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Equator, Etymologiae, Europe, Flat Earth, Generations of Noah, Geographical pole, Giacomo Filippo Foresti, Ham (son of Noah), Henry of Huntingdon, Holy Land, Isidore of Seville, Isis (journal), Itinerarium, Japheth, Jerusalem, Map projection, Mappa mundi, Mediterranean Sea, Monk, Nile, Ocean, Oceanus, Omphalos, Periplus, Pillars of Hercules, Saint-Sever Beatus, Shem, ... Expand index (3 more) »

  2. 7th-century maps
  3. Map types

Abbey library of Saint Gall

The abbey library of Saint Gall (Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Ancient Libya

During the Iron Age and Classical antiquity, Libya (from Greek Λιβύη: Libyē, which came from Berber: Libu) referred to modern-day Africa west of the Nile river.

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Antipodes

In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Babylonian Map of the World

The Babylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language.

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Bünting cloverleaf map

The Bünting cloverleaf map, also known as The World in a Cloverleaf, (German title: "Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat/Welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen") is a historic mappa mundi drawn by the German Protestant pastor, theologian, and cartographer Heinrich Bünting.

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Beatus map

The Beatus map or Beatine map is one of the most significant cartographic works of the European Early Middle Ages.

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Beatus of Liébana

Beatus of Liébana (Beato) was a monk, theologian, and author of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, an influential compendium of previous authorities' views on the Apocalypse.

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Biblical terminology for race

Since early modern times, a number of biblical ethnonyms from the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 have been used as a basis for classifying human racial (cosmetic phenotypes) and national (ethnolinguistic cultural) identities.

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Brunetto Latini

Brunetto Latini (who signed his name Burnectus Latinus in Latin and Burnecto Latino in Italian; –1294) was an Italian philosopher, scholar, notary, politician and statesman.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.

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Commentary on the Apocalypse

Commentary on the Apocalypse (Commentaria in Apocalypsin) is a book written in the eighth century by the Spanish monk and theologian Beatus of Liébana (730–785) and copied and illustrated in manuscript in works called "Beati" during the 10th and 11th centuries AD.

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Continent

A continent is any of several large geographical regions.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Delos

Delos (Δήλος; Δῆλος, Δᾶλος), is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago.

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Don (river)

The Don (p) is the fifth-longest river in Europe.

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Early world maps

The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Etymologiae

Etymologiae (Latin for 'Etymologies'), also known as the Origines ('Origins'), usually abbreviated Orig., is an etymological encyclopedia compiled by the influential Christian bishop Isidore of Seville towards the end of his life.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Flat Earth

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk.

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Generations of Noah

The Generations of Noah, also called the Table of Nations or Origines Gentium, is a genealogy of the sons of Noah, according to the Hebrew Bible (Genesis), and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood, focusing on the major known societies.

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Geographical pole

A geographical pole or geographic pole is either of the two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface.

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Giacomo Filippo Foresti

Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo (1434–1520) was an Augustinian friar, known as the author of several significant early printed works.

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Ham (son of Noah)

Ham (in), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.

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Henry of Huntingdon

Henry of Huntingdon (Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of Historia Anglorum (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), as "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy".

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Holy Land

The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.

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Isidore of Seville

Isidore of Seville (Isidorus Hispalensis; 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville.

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Isis (journal)

Isis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Itinerarium

An itinerarium (plural: itineraria) was an ancient Roman travel guide in the form of a listing of cities, villages (''vici'') and other stops on the way, including the distances between each stop and the next. T and O map and itinerarium are map types.

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Japheth

Japheth (יֶפֶת Yép̄eṯ, in pausa Yā́p̄eṯ; Ἰάφεθ; Iafeth, Iapheth, Iaphethus, Iapetus; يافث) is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, in which he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations as the ancestor of the peoples of the Aegean Sea, Anatolia, Caucasus, Greece, and elsewhere in Eurasia.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Map projection

In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane.

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Mappa mundi

A mappa mundi (Latin; plural. T and O map and mappa mundi are map types.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Monk

A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Oceanus

In Greek mythology, Oceanus (Ὠκεανός, also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.

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Omphalos

An omphalos is a religious stone artefact.

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Periplus

A periplus, or periplous, is a manuscript document that lists the ports and coastal landmarks, in order and with approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along a shore.

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Pillars of Hercules

The Pillars of Hercules are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Saint-Sever Beatus

The Saint-Sever Beatus, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878), is a Romanesque Illuminated manuscript from the 11th century.

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Shem

Shem (שֵׁם Šēm; Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 and 1 Chronicles 1:4).

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Spherical Earth

Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth as a sphere.

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V-in-square map

The V-in-square (or V-in-◻) map is a highly schematic type of mappa mundi (world map) in use in Europe during the Middle Ages. T and O map and v-in-square map are map types.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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See also

7th-century maps

Map types

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map

Also known as Isidoran map, O and T map, O-T map, T&o map, T-O map, T-and-O map, TO Map, TO Maps.

, Spherical Earth, V-in-square map, Western Europe.