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Gaps in the Historical Record - -JKP- - 15-11-2017
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Not a pleasant topic, but significant to anyone trying to fit together historical puzzle pieces, many of which have been lost.
Lisbon Palace Library:
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Wikipedia has a list of destroyed libraries:
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RE: Gaps in the Historical Record - peteb - 01-01-2018
Provenance and History - I'm hoping this enquiry fits.
If the Vm was written as a travelling journal, and it looks rough enough to have served that purpose, has anyone ever drawn a geographical representation of the (generally) accepted facts, a map, from beginning to end?
RE: Gaps in the Historical Record - Diane - 23-01-2018
Peteb,
It's interesting that you suggest it was a travelling journal. I don't know how long that idea has been around, or versions of it, but although it seems logical (first associated with a Franciscan and then said to have come to Prague in the possession of an anonymous 'traveller'/messenger), I found that my saying I thought it a compilation made for a travelling profession didn't meet cries of joyous recognition in 2010.
Maybe more people think the same now, which would be nice.
Mapping the content's range: interesting problem because while mapping always looks good it's sometimes like advertising; you have to know enough already to recognise what is left out - and why.
e.g. a map showing all the Roman baths in Armenia would really only tell you that someone supposes the 'bathy-' section's pictures are meant literally and not metaphorically or allegorically, and that their theory is about Roman-era Armenia.
RE: Gaps in the Historical Record - -JKP- - 02-03-2019
An interesting article on medieval portolan charts that includes the fate of some of the charts that didn't survive:
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"Portolan Charts from the Late Thirteenth Century to 1500" by Tony Campbell, 1987 University of Chicago Press
RE: Gaps in the Historical Record - Linda - 02-03-2019
Haven't had a chance to read it all yet but looks to be a great resource. Thanks!