BMC 64--Almond-shaped Mappa Mundi by Ranulf Higden circa 1350

An example of Higden’s mandorla (almond-shaped) mappa mundi, or medieval map of the world and is oriented with East at the top. It uses place names to show relative positions and locations and virtually no attempt to draw the actual landmasses or bodies of water. Original map in the collections of the British Library, Royal MS. 14 C.xii, fol. 9v.https://digitalmaine.com/arc_baxter/1084/thumbnail.jp

BMC 64--Almond-shaped Mappa Mundi by Ranulf Higden circa 1350

An example of Higden’s mandorla (almond-shaped) mappa mundi, or medieval map of the world and is oriented with East at the top. It uses place names to show relative positions and locations and virtually no attempt to draw the actual landmasses or bodies of water. Original map in the collections of the British Library, Royal MS. 14 C.xii, fol. 9v.https://digitalmaine.com/arc_baxter/1084/thumbnail.jp

07, Printed leaf from the first edition of the Policronycon in English

Recto of leaf CCXXX [230] from the first English edition of The Polycronicon by Ranulf Higden (d.1364). Translated from Latin to English by John Trevisa. Edited and printed with continuation by William Caxton. (All three individuals are named on p. a3v of the original book.) 40 lines to a page; no signatures; headline and paragraph flourishes in red. Contemporary annotation notes in red and black ink on outer margins. Some annotations trimmed off at outer edge. Includes the end of Chapter 3 and the beginning of Chapter 4 of Book 5. Text in Middle English. Rose-Wright Manuscript Collection no. 23.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mss_incunabula/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Description of Britain

The LEME Corpus Manual has an editorial introduction, indexes of subjects, proper names, and chronology, a primary bibliography of LEME corpus texts, as well as English language texts not included in the Corpus, a description of the XML encoding and of lemmatization and source analysis tools. The appendix includes lists of language abbreviations and of abbreviations for parts of speech.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaCanada Foundation for InnovationUniversity of Toronto LibrariesUniversity of Toronto PressInformation & Instructional Technology, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toront

Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, monachi Cestrensis : Together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century

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