| LC control no. | gf2011026386 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Mappae mundi |
| Variant(s) | Mappa mundi Mappamundi |
| See also | Maps |
| Scope note | Early medieval world maps. |
| Found in | Form/genre for cartographic materials [draft of LC working group], 1996: Maps--Mappamundi (used for medieval (usually circular) world maps, made between the fall of the western Roman empire in the later years of the 5th century AD and the end of the 15th century) Wikipedia, Dec. 8, 2009: mappa mundi (plural: mappae mundi: a general term used to describe Medieval European maps of the world. These maps ranged in size and complexity from simple schematic maps an inch or less across, to elaborate wall maps, the largest of which was 11 ft. (3.5 m.) in diameter. Approximately 1,100 mappae mundi are known to have survived from the Middle Ages) |
| Not found in | Glossary of mapping, charting, and geodetic terms, 1973; Glossary of the mapping sciences, 1994. |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2009025087 |
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