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List of Plates, Figures, and Tables . . vi
Plates . . x
Beinecke Map (gatefold) . . after page 192

Introduction - The Beinecke Map . . 1
Chapter 1 - The Beinecke Map: Iconography and Physical Properties . . 9
Chapter 2 - Pictography, Writing, and Mapping in the Valley of Mexico and the Beinecke Map . . 31
Chapter 3 - Sibling Maps, Spatial Rivalries: The Beinecke Map and the Piano Parcial de la Ciudad de Mexico . . 53
Chapter 4 - The Traces of the Creative Process: Pictorial Materials and Techniques in the Beinecke Map . . 75
Chapter 5 - Analytical Report of the Pigments and Binding Materials Used on the Beinecke Map . . 91
Chapter 6 - On the Margins of Mexico City: What the Beinecke Map Shows . . 101
Chapter 7 - Crown and Tlatoque: The Iconography of Rulership in the Beinecke Map . . 111
Chapter 8 - Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing and the Beinecke Map . . 137
Chapter 9 - A Mexican Map Abroad: The Beinecke Map in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . . 159

Afterword . . 177
Appendix A - Conservation of the Beinecke Map . . 179
Appendix B - Individuals Named Hieroglyphically on the Plots of the Beinecke Map . . 181

Contributors . . 193
Glossary . . 195
Bibliography . . 197
Index . . 209

Foreword . . ix
Preface . . xiii
Introduction: What Is a Map? . . xv

1 Compass Roses, Wind Faces, Commentaries, and Other Additions . . 1
2 All the Ships at Sea . . 41
3 Denizens of the Deep . . 67
4 The Cartographic Botanical Garden . . 91
5 The Cartographic Menagerie . . 105
6 The Peoples of the World . . 131
7 Of Human Achievements .. Conclusion . . 177

Notes . . 195
Cartobibliography . . 199
Bibliography . . 205
Index . . 209
Picture Credits . . 218

List of illustrations . . vi
Preface . . ix
Abbreviations . . xi
Conventions followed text . . xv

1 The historical background . . 1
2 The literary background . . 6
3 The cartographic background . . 10
4 Maps of the Holy Land . . 17
5 The Ashburnham Libri map, late 12th century . . 31
6 The Tournai maps, late 12th century . . 40
7 The Oxford map of Matthew Paris, mid-13th century . . 60
8 The Acre map of Matthew Paris, mid-13th century . . 74
9 The earliest large Burchard map, circa 1300 . . 94
10 The grid maps, 1320-1339 . . 107
11 The later large Burchard maps, 14th to early 15th century . . 128
12 The small Burchard map, mid-14th century . . 141
13 Conclusion . . 155

General index . . 157
Index of manuscripts . . 160

INTRODUCTION . . 7
THE CARTOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND . . 7
DIEPPE AND THE NORMAN TRADITION OF CARTOGRAPHY . . 13
HENRY II AND HIS INTEREST IN MAPS AND GEOGRAPHY . . 26
PIERRE DESCELIERS AND HIS WORKS . . 30
THE MORGAN LIBRARY ATLAS . . 37
THE 1546 MAP . . 38
THE 1553 MAP . . 43
THE 155O MAP . . 47
THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT ON NORMAN MAPS . . 59
THE INFLUENCE OF THE NORMAN MAPS . . 72

FACSIMILE WITH COMMENTARIES . . 77

APPENDIX: THE 155O MAP'S LONG LEGENDS . . 162
NOTES . . 176
INDEX . . 189