----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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!) _ /| Bill Thoen <[log in to unmask]> \'o.O' -------------------------------------------------------------- =(___)= GISnet BBS - GIS & Desktop Mapping 303-447-0927 (data line) U GIS & Mapping Web http://www.gisnet.com/gis/index.html --- ~ GISnet BBS 303-447-0927 Boulder, Colorado