MS. Douce 389
Summary Catalogue no.: 21964
Contents
East is at the top. A version of the ‘large Burchard map’ (P. D. A. Harvey, Medieval maps of the Holy Land (2012), 94–106), with inscriptions deriving from Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio terrae sanctae. A table of distances at the north (left) side of the map derives partly from Rorgo Fretellus, Liber locorum sanctorum terrae Ierusalem, partly from an unknown source or sources; English translation of this list in P. Arad, ‘Pilgrimage, cartography, and devotion: William Wey's map of the Holy Land’, Viator 43 (2012), 318–19.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
One scribe (Harvey, p. 137).
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander iii. 751:
Coloured map. Each membrane by a different draughtsman (Harvey, pp. 137, 139–40).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Sometimes identified with the ‘mappa of the holy lond’ owned by the 15th-century pilgrim William Wey, but it corresponds only in part to the map described by Wey (Harvey, pp. 138–9; cf. Arad, 309–14 for the contraary argument).
Francis Douce, 1757–1834; acquired at an unknown date.
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-08-01: Record revised to accompany Digital Bodleian record