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Mappa Mundi = medieval?[edit]

How come? What's the source of this affirmation? Mappa mundi means, literally, world map. Any map that represents the world is a mappa mundi. I challenge this concept of "only medieval" maps of the world are mappae mundi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.228.182.252 (talk) 14:55, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

InterWiki links[edit]

Halló! I just found es:La Esfera del Mundo. Is this article related to the same subject. Pictures from other Mappa Mundi can be seen at links from Talk:Muhammad al-Idrisi#usefull information. Regards Gangleri
I would have thought not - it describes an atlas and a heart shaped world map which comes from a later period. For some reason the Spanish wikipedia seems to call all world maps "mapamundi" --Henrygb 22:52, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What is the reason why only medieval maps are called mappa mundi? I fully agree with the Spanish Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.228.182.252 (talk) 14:56, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Zonal Maps[edit]

I was just reading Bede and his account of the zones places them clearly in the sky, not on the Earth. I think that in the Early Middle Ages Zonal Maps are (sometimes|often|usually) related to the zones in the celestial sphere, not to zones on the Earth. Are there any examples of an ancient or early medieval map (say before 1100) that shows the zones unambiguously on the surface of the Earth? If not, the discussion and accompanying illustration are seriously misleading. --SteveMcCluskey 19:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disregard my last. I checked Macrobius and he talks explicitly about the relation between the celestial parallels and their terrestrial equivalents. --SteveMcCluskey 00:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Mappaemundi" or "mappae mundi"?[edit]

If, according to the article, the plural of "mappa mundi" is "mappae mundi", should all the instances of "mappaemundi" in the article be replaced with "mappae mundi"? Thanks, David Kernow 12:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The same question went through my mind as I read this article. I'm pretty sure that it should be mappae mundi -- two words and italicized. --WikiPedant 22:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've peformed a simple find+replace on "mappaemundi" in the article, replacing it with "mappae mundi"; hope nothing has been broken in the process. Thanks for your input, David 03:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

Since the T and O article is not, at this point, very long, it seemed to make more sense to have it as a section of this article rather than its own separate entity. Input would be much appreciated, as I've never suggested a merge before. Cheers. --Evan, guest editor; 19 Jul 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.50.225.53 (talk) 16:53, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The T and O article has developed quite well so perhaps should remain separate.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 11:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The proposal has been removed.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 17:16, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Should we really have a section on Beatus’s map?[edit]

I find it quite odd that we have an entire section on a specific guy’s map. Sure its an important map, but I dont think it counts as an entire style. And before you say there are multiple examples of Beatus maps, well thats only because people in medieval times liked to make reproductions of older works. Its like saying Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone is a style of book beacause its reprinted, no, its just a plain old book, not a style. And finally Beatus maps look almost exactly the same as T and O maps, there’s almost no difference. So like Harry Potter is a fantasy novel, the Beatus map is just a T and O map, and I think it doesn’t deserve a whole section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirFlemeingtonz (talk • contribs) 17:17, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Propose to rename[edit]

Most references use mappamundi as a single word. Seems to be the most common usgage by far. Not sure how/why this article ended up using mappa mundi. Unless there are concerns, I propose to rename. Glendoremus (talk) 17:17, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

first EL- dead

second EL [1] -Mappœ mundi, two word

third libk [https://www.themappamundi.co.uk/ = mappa mundi two words

forth link [2] mappamundi one word

fifth link [3] mappa mundi two words

So no, one word is not the most common usage, 3 out of the first 5 links use two words against 1 use of single word IdreamofJeanie (talk) 18:16, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]