10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAPPEMOND»
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mappemond in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language: in which the ...
Gl. Picken. ' MARE. It is a singular superstition which prevails MAPAMOUND, s. A
map of the world. Douglas.— in the South of S, that if a bride ride home to the Fr.
mappemond, L. B. mappa mundt, bridegroom's house on a mare, her children ...
2
A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's ...
We have already mentioned Laurence de Premierfait's willingness to equate the
Romance of the Rose and the Divine Comedy as examples of a "vraye
mappemond"; his analogy is very much the kind we are making between Ovid
and ...
Judson Boyce Allen, Theresa Anne Moritz, 1981
3
The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... copious, countless, divers, frequent, innumerable, manifold, multifarious,
multifold, multitudinous, myriad, numerous, profuse, sundry, umpteen, umpty,
varied, various, zillion. map n. atlas, chart, graph, mappemond, plan, plot, street
plan. mar ...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
4
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
wall; his pen was in his inkwell; a book was open on his desk and his
geographical globe—his famous mappemond— was in its accustomed place.
Princes passing throughPariscame toMalmaison to salute the former empress,
and she ...
5
A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words ...
... Hahumiss, v. a. To confer a literary degree ; synon. to laureate. Crawford's Hist,
tfniv. Edin. To MAP, v. n. "To nibble as a sheep," Ayrs. loth. 01. Picken.
MAPAMOUND, s. A map of the world. Douglas.— Fr. mappemond, L. B. mappa
mundi.
6
Catalogue of maunscripts and rare books
The maps represent : (1) Hudson's Bay, engraved by Htssel Gerritsz after the
original by H. Hudson; (2) Mappemond, the American half showing California as
a peninsula ; (3) The Northern Part of Kussia, Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and ...
Myers & co., booksellers, London, 1655
7
The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the ...
... and Trades, 1751–72), edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
and encompassing seventeen volumes of text and eleven volumes of plates. The
guiding metaphor for this project is the mappemond, or world map. As described
...
8
The Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo Da Vinci
THIS is the side from which W. 12453 and '457 were extracted (caricatures in the
style of those on the first sheet of the Codex Trivulzianus). See note to RECTO.
The sketch can be associated with Leonardo's project of a mappemond, studied ...
9
Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A) ...
I, Text; Vol. II, Facsimile. Major, R. M. (1866), "Memoir on a Mappemond by
Leonardo da Vinci," Archaeologia (London), XL, 1-40. Manzi, G. (1817), Trattato
della Pittura di Leonardo da Vinci. Rome: de Romanis. Marinoni, A. (1952), Gli
Appunti ...
Leonardo (da Vinci), Carlo Pedretti, 1964
10
An etmological dictionary of the scottish language
Fr. mappemond, L. B. mappa mundi. MAR. adj. More. V. Mare. MAR. s. Hindrance
. Wallace. A.S. mar, damnum. MARBEL, adj. Feeble, inactive, Loth. G. B.
marwdawl, deadening ; Gael. -meirhle, slow, weak ; marble, heavy, benumbed.
