9 Rosette - Specific Details

[Linda]

This is a page of Matthew Paris's Strip Map. I think strips like these are what we see with the causeways on the rosettes page. Note the central rosette is not connected by causeways and I would argue not a geographical location, but a theme relating  to the page.

I used to think that, and perhaps it is still part of it, for me that theme was religious, because of the inclusion of Jerusalem at the centers of so many Christian maps, except i saw it also to be Cairo, Baghdad, and other places. Now i think it is geographical, including all the data that goes with that, and in amongst the various political relationships and multiculturalism through the ages, there is also a multitheistic aspect to the place i interpret it to be, which is Sicily. I got the idea from a portolan chart centred on Sicily, there were several aspects i could correlate with what is in the rosettes. 



I do not see it as a strip map though, to me the causeways are just as much a part of the whole as the rosettes, it just cuts things up into morsels. To me the TO map is up, or top right, depending on which view i am describing. Yours is a new orientation i hadn't seen before. Where do you think the travels occur? Juergen's paper was one of the first i saw, and although i don't completely agree with his placements, the main gist somewhat matched my own ideas about the rosettes as a map, or as a bunch of mnemonics that can be used to draw one.