-------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Gough Map of Great Britain - exhibition now open Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 13:08:40 +0100 From: Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]> Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting ...... The Gough Map : the most remarkable cartographic monument of medieval England This exhibit (thanks to Paul Harvey for the inspiration behind the title) will run from Saturday 14 May to Sunday 26 June 2011 in the Bodleian Library Proscholium, Old Schools Quadrangle, Catte Street, Oxford. The exhibition is free of charge and open to all. Exhibition hours: Mon-Fri - 9am-7pm; Sat - 9am-4.30pm; Sun - 11am-5pm. *** For those of you in the locality, the exhibit opened a few minutes ago, so you are welcome to come along and see the map for yourselves *** One of Britain's truly outstanding medieval maps will be on public display in the Proscholium, Bodleian Library. The 'Gough Map' is a remarkable English depiction of Great Britain, created sometime during the later fourteenth century and subsequently amended during the fifteenth century. The precise origins of the Gough Map have long been uncertain despite much scholarly interest. Only recently has the map received careful palaeographical study, and this has yielded a great deal more insight into the map's making and its use. The map was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1809 by the great antiquarian, Richard Gough, in whose volume on British Topography the map gained its first modern study. This exhibition includes both the Gough Map - a unique manuscript - as well as Gough's Topography, as two key documents of English cartographic history, providing viewers with a rare opportunity to see close-up the fine details of the map, and in particular the writing that appears on it. The map's script is a key to understanding its making and use, and the exhibition offers new interpretations based upon an on-going research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The exhibition is organised by the Linguistic Geographies project team. The team wish to thank the Bodleian Library for its support of this exhibition, as well as the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more information on the project please visit www.goughmap.org Forthcoming events: Thursday 9 June 2011: 5pm, University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY 'The making of the Gough Map of Great Britain: manuscript evidence and historical context' by Elizabeth Solopova Tuesday 14 June 2011: 1pm, Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford, OX1 3BG 'A masterpiece of evolution: newly discovered evidence for the making of the Gough Map of Great Britain' by Elizabeth Solopova Thursday 23 June 23 to Saturday 25 June 2011: Bodleian Library, Oxford, OX1 3BG 'The Language of Maps : Communicating through cartography during the middle ages and renaissance'. A colloquium at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. For more details, please go to: www.goughmap.org With best wishes, Nick Millea _______________________________________________________ Nick Millea Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG Tel: 01865 287119 Email: [log in to unmask] Homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/ Temporary move of Special Collections: More information at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/scmoves _______________________________________________________