Matthew Paris’s Clickable Map:
An Interactive Claudius Map
Project Manager: John Wyatt Greenlee, PhD
Project Description:
This project presents an annotated copy of Matthew Paris’s c. 1250 map of Britain (BL Cotton MS Claudius D VI), made using Omeka’s Neatline extension.
To learn more about Matthew Paris and his maps, click here.
How to use the map:
You can zoom in and out, and drag the map around the screen. As you scroll over individual locations they will highlight, and a translation will appear in the upper left-hand corner. Clicking on a location or inscription will open a window that gives you both a translation and a transcription, as well as an image from the location. Clicking on the image will take you to a wikipedia page for the location.
If you have trouble with the imbedded map, you can find a larger, non-imbedded version here.
Sources:
Gilson, J.P.. Four Maps of Great Britain Designed by Matthew Paris about A.D. 1250, Reproduced from Three Manuscripts in the British Museum and One at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. London: British Museum, 1928.
Alexander C Lamb, Dundee: Its Quaint and Historic Buildings (Dundee: George Petrie, 1895).
Lewis, Suzanne. The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora. Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1987.
This project is listed with the Medieval Academy of America’s Medieval Digital Resources Database.
