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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


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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

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