(04-10-2019, 04:46 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It would be an odd map, period. With this layout, I'd be more inclined to approach it as a diagram that incorporates map elements.
However I should point out that there are quite a few maps from that time that you would think were less likely to be a map if it were not for the fact that they have readable text. So it looks odd, but it is not uniquely odd. The oddest thing about the page is, of course, the text. I may upload a few other maps of that period that look less like maps than the rosettes folio. There are very many features which are common to maps of that time and not found in any documents that are not maps.
The extent to which it is distinctive I regard as a function of the creativity of the author in representing the map in his/her own way. My earlier quote from Professor Harvey is relevant in this regard. On the basis of having spoken with Prof Harvey I asked him if this would be an odd map and he said he didn't think it was particularly odd.
I think, from what I have seen, it would be very odd as a cosmological or elemental diagram. Maybe there are cosmological or elemental diagrams that exhibit the kind of features and details that we see on the page and it would be very interesting if anyone has examples of such.
However there could very well be elements to the page that are not map features in fact I think there are as I have already stated. (The two suns could be seen in those terms though they may mark the directions east and west.)
So when you say:
"I'd be more inclined to approach it as a diagram that incorporates map elements."
I suppose I would turn that around and say:
I am inclined to approach it as a map that incorporates a few non-map elements.