Link: https://sims2.digitalmappa.org/36
Project Status: Ongoing
Publication Date: 2022
An ongoing set of linked and annotated digital editions of medieval world maps, published as open-access scholarship, and undertaken in collaboration with the British Library, and hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.
Each map edited in the project is available as a fully annotated digital facsimile edition, with every inscription many other features of interest highlighted, and linked to an annotation that includes a transcription, translation, and additional notes.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Digital Edition, Downloadable data, Images, Manuscripts/Facsimiles, Map
License: No Fee, Open Source
Medieval content details:
Dates: 900 - 1400
Subject: Art, Cosmology, Geography, Manuscript Studies, Maps, Material Culture
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Art and Artifacts, Manuscripts, Maps, Plans, Material Evidence, Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: Africa, Asia, East and South, Europe, Middle East