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2021
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Ordnance Survey Old / First series England and Wales 1:63360 (georeferenced sheet images)
Map sheet images for the Ordnance Survey Old Series / First Series England and Wales 1:63360, georeferenced and cropped at the neatlike (can be viewed together as a seamless composite). Geotiff format. The original (ungeoreferenced) sheet images can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_Old/First_series_England_and_Wales_1:63360_(full_sheets). The sheets were georeferenced by relating the sheet...Vane, Olivia
England, Wales, Ordnance Survey, maps, First Series, and Old Series
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2019
Blog post
Oil, storms and knowing part 2: Pliny, Franklin and the IPCC Special Report on Oceans
This post is the second of a pair to mark the period of the 25th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and is contributed by Andrea Deri, Cataloguer. In addition to seafarers, fishers in the Mediterranean Sea applied oil as Pliny the Elder and Plutarch...Déri, Andrea
science, maps, Americas, modern history, curiosity, travel, and environmental science
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2019
Blog post
Oil, storms and knowing part 1: Seafarers Calm Waves with Oil
This post is to mark the period of the 25th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and is contributed by Andrea Deri, Cataloguer. A storm at sea is one of the most feared experiences, as it often presages shipwreck. Mariners would do anything to survive...Déri, Andrea
South East Asia, science, maps, Medieval history, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, curiosity, travel, and environmental science
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2017
Dataset
Pelagios Project: Portolano. Egerton MS 2855
This dataset comprises 7 images from a Portolano produced in 1473 by Grazioso Benincasa. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Update – 9/3/2018: Please note that there were technical issues with this dataset. If you downloaded before 9/3/2018, please replace with this repaired...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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2017
Dataset
Pelagios Project: Maps after Ptolemy's Geographia. Burney MS 111
This dataset comprises 68 images from a Greek manuscript edition of Ptolemy's Geography containing many diagrams and coloured maps, and produced between the 1375 and 1425. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in copyright until...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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2017
Dataset
Pelagios Project: Digitised Liber insularum Arcipelagi Cotton MS Vespasian a.XIII.art.1
This dataset comprises 82 images from the Liber insularum Arcipegelagi, an illustrated account of the islands and major ports of the Mediterranean produced by Christophori Bondelmonti around 1422. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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2017
Dataset
Pelagios Project: Digitised Insularium Illustratum. Additional MS 15760
This dataset comprises 123 images from the Insularium Illustratum, an account of the islands of the Mediterranean, and of some others produced by Henricus Martellus Germanus in 1495. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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2017
Dataset
Pelagios Project: Liber insularum Cycladum. Arundel MS 93.art.7
This dataset comprises 45 images from the Liber insularum Cycladum produced by Christophori Bondelmonti around 1422. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in copyright until 2039. However, given the age of the manuscripts and their...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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2017
Dataset
Pelagios Project: Single Sheets and Supplementary Materials
This dataset comprises 30 images selected among individual maps and non-map based medieval materials such as travel accounts. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in copyright until 2039. However, given the age of the manuscripts...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps