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  -JKP- > 15-11-2017, 04:13 AM

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  Not a pleasant topic, but significant to anyone trying to fit together historical puzzle pieces, many of which have been lost.
  
  
  

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  Lisbon Palace Library:
  
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  Wikipedia has a list of destroyed libraries:
  
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  peteb > 01-01-2018, 10:14 AM

  Provenance and History - I'm hoping this enquiry fits.
  
  If the Vm was written as a travelling journal, and it looks rough enough to have served that purpose, has anyone ever drawn a geographical representation of the (generally) accepted facts, a map, from beginning to end?

• RE: Gaps in the Historical Record

  Diane > 23-01-2018, 05:59 PM

  Peteb,
  
  It's interesting that you suggest it was a travelling journal. I don't know how long that idea has been around, or versions of it, but although it seems logical (first associated with a Franciscan and then said to have come to Prague in the possession of an anonymous 'traveller'/messenger),  I found that my saying I thought it a compilation made for a travelling profession didn't meet cries of joyous recognition in 2010.
  
  Maybe more people think the same now, which would be nice. 
  
  
  Mapping the content's range: interesting problem because while mapping always looks good it's sometimes like advertising; you have to know enough already to recognise what is left out  - and why.
  
  e.g. a map showing all the Roman baths in Armenia would really only tell you that someone supposes the 'bathy-' section's pictures are meant literally  and not metaphorically or allegorically, and that their theory is about Roman-era Armenia.

• RE: Gaps in the Historical Record

  -JKP- > 02-03-2019, 01:05 AM

  An interesting article on medieval portolan charts that includes the fate of some of the charts that didn't survive:
  
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  "Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500" by Tony Campbell, 1987 University of Chicago Press

• RE: Gaps in the Historical Record

  Linda > 02-03-2019, 01:56 AM

  Haven't had a chance to read it all yet but looks to be a great resource. Thanks!
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