Map of Palestine — 14th century, second half; English

Title

Map of Palestine — 14th century, second half; English

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 389

Associated place

Palestine

Date

14th century, second half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

roll

Support

parchment. Original format uncertain, but damage on the lower edge shows it was kept as a roll at some point, and it was described as a 'rotulus' in the 1840 Douce catalogue (Harvey, p. 135).

Physical extent

3 membranes

Hands

One scribe (Harvey, p. 137).

Decoration

Coloured map. Each membrane by a different draughtsman (Harvey, pp. 137, 139–40).

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Sometimes identified with the ‘mappa of the holy lond’ owned by the 15th-century pilgrim William Wey, but it corresponds only in part to the map described by Wey (Harvey, pp. 138–9; cf. Arad, 309–14 for the contraary argument).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834; acquired at an unknown date.

Title

A coloured map or plan of Palestine

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 389

Summary

With letterpress in various parts and tables of distances: it extends from Sidon and Damascus to beyond the Dead Sea and embraces the country on both sides of the Jordan. It has been reproduced in coloured facsimile (in 1867) for the Roxburghe Club, to accompany William Wey's Itineraries to Jerusalem (A.D. 1458 and 1462): and has been supposed to be Wey's 'Mappa mea de Terra Sancta': but in that case it can hardly have been written, but rather owned, by him, as the date is early 15th cent. or even late 14th. The Itineraries are now MS. Bodl. 565 (O. C. 2351).

Date

written in about A.D. 1400 in England

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

1 item