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World Map

Artist: Anonymous (French)
Author: Macrobius
Created: ca. 1175-1200
Medium: ink on parchment
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (21 x 13 cm)

Folio Number: 64v

Format: diagram

Script: textura

Period: Medieval

Country: northeast France (?)

Style: Romanesque

Language: Latin, Greek

Provenance: Northeast France (?); Franciscan ownership [notation on fol. 66r], 14th century; Abbot Luigi Celotti (ca. 1768-1846) ["Celotti" added on front pastedown during first half of 19th century], first half 19th century [mode of acquisition unknown]; Celotti Sale, London, Evans, 14 March 1825, no. 478; Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851) [bookseller], London, 1825, by purchase; Sir Thomas Phillipps [Ms. 1029] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Phillipps Sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 April-2 May 1903, no. 749 [30 April]; Bernard Quaritch, 1903, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903
Accession No. W.22.64V