EBSTORF WORLD MAP -- MORIALIUM OBSTORFENSIUM MAPPA MUNDI quæ exeunte sæculo XIII videtur picta. Hannoveræ nunc adservatur.

Stuttgart: Jos. Roth'sche Verlagshandlung, 1898. Colored panel;s mounted on linen. Unfolded, measures 41.75 x 46.5, 4 rows of 5 panels printed in color chromolithography. Good+, soiling needs to be professionaly cleaned, in as-found condition three steel eyes mounted along top border for hanging. Item #173227

The Ebstorf Map is a world map similar to the Hereford Map. It was the largest medievalmap of the world whose original has been lost due to it being destroyed in 1943, during the Allied bombing of Hanover. The map was found in a convent in Ebstorf in the 1830s. It was not only a geographical map. In the Middle Ages, a map contained mystic, historical and religious motifs. Of central importance is Jesus Christ, who, in the Ebstorf Map, is part of the earth. The Ebstorf Map contains the knowledge of the time of its creation; it can be used for example as an atlas, as a chronicle of the world, or as an illustrated Bible.Some have claimed It was made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man as Gervase of Tilbury, some time in the thirteenth century. Opinions differ not only concerning the exact time or time period of its creation, but also concerning its authorship, patronage and ultimate purpose.The original was a very large map, painted on 30 goatskins sewn together and measuring around 3.6 by 3.6 metres.There survives a set of black-and-white photographs of the original, taken in 1891, and several colour facsimiles such as the one offered for sale here. Partly printed in gold. Rare. This map, while in VG overall condition, needs to be cleaned to return it to it's glory.

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