----------------------------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