Link: https://historiacartarum.org/annotated-claudius-map/
Project Status: Complete
“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.”
The annotated map is clickable with annotations that include text, images from medieval manuscripts, and sometimes modern photographs of locations depicted in Paris’s maps.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Digital Edition, Images, Manuscripts/Facsimiles, Map, Multimedia
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Medieval content details:
Dates: 1225 - 1275
Subject: Art, Cosmology, Geography, History, Landscape, Natural History, Maps, Material Culture, Travel, Pilgrimage
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Chronicles, Annals, Manuscripts, Maps, Plans, Material Evidence, Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: British Isles and Ireland, England, Europe, Scotland, Wales
Original Language: Latin