MEDIEVAL CARTOGRAPHY 



of geographical lexicon by an unknown author of the thirteenth 

 century/ which is for the most part based on earlier writers, 

 especially Isidore. Both works are practically untouched by 

 the knowledge of the North that had already appeared in King 



Ranulph Higden's map of the world, in London (fourteenth century) 



1 The work is preserved in the British Museum in a MS. of the fourteenth 

 century, which unfortunately has not been published. The geographical de- 

 scription in the " Eulogium Historiarum " of about 1360 [vol. ii. Rerum Britann. 

 Medii ^vi Script., London, i860, cf. the introduction by F. S. Haydon] may 

 be taken from this work. It is evidently a MS. of the same "Geographia" 

 that W. Wackernagel found in the library at Berne, and of which he published 

 extracts relating to the North [1844]. It is probably the same "Geographia 

 Universalis," again, that is published in Bartholomaeus Anglicus: " De proprie- 

 tatibus rerum, and in Rudimenta Novitiorum," Liibeck, circa 1475. 



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