# mappamundi maps harvardlibrary

From Ptolemy's 2nd c. to Beatus' 8th c. (here in a 1929 facsimile by Konrad Miller). The tripartite world is encircled with water; East, where Paradise lay, is at the top of the the Red Sea unmistakable in the South. A spatial-temporal worldview

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