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Direction of labels on rosettes foldout
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09-02-2018, 12:18 AM
Another note about direction is that the drawing that resembles a T-O map orients the labels so that what was traditionally read as Africa is at the top (in contrast to Isidore of Seville's mappa mundi, and those of many others in the Middle Ages who put Asia at the top)
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