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Judith Scurfield <[log in to unmask]> writes:
Subject:      Mass on a Mappa Mundi
 
 
J>Yesterday morning,our classical music "listeners'
 >requests" programme broadcast a piece of music
 >called "Mass on a Mappa Mundi" by a Spanish
 >composer of the 15th. century called Juan Cornado.
 >Groves' Dictionary of Music reveals that this
 >gentleman worked at the Court of Naples c. 1455-
 >1485, and that the work was commissioned by
 >Fernando of Naples in either 1465-70 or about
 >1480, presumably at the same time as or a little
 >after the date of the map.  Any ideas as to which
 >Mappa Mundi was being celebrated? (if you think
 
Might be Fra Mauro's Mappamundi of 1469 (but he worked at Venice).
Andrea Bianco did one in 1432, and I think he was at Naples. I bet
that's it; it was (and still is) quite famous.
 
In any case, check out J. Siebold's Cartogrphic Images Page at
http://www.iag.net/~jsiebold/carto.html. This is a tremendous
URL list page for 'net map resources and has many online pictures of
maps from all ages (and there are a LOT here!). These are from a CD that
Siebold sells that may be something most map libraries might want to
have (if you don't have the originals!)
 
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