date, between _c._ 780-980 but probably not later
than the 10th century. One of the earliest examples of
Christian map-making.


THE ANGLO-SAXON MAP 54

(B. Mus., Cotton mss., Tib. B.V., fol. 59). This gives
us the most interesting and accurate view of the world
that we get in the pre-Crusading Christian science. The
square, but not conventional outline is detailed with
considerable care and precision. The writing, though
minute, is legible; but the Nile, which, like the Red
Sea in Africa, is coloured _red_, in contrast to the
ordinary _grey_ of water in this example, is made to
wander about Africa from side to side, with occasional
disappearances, in a thoroughly mythical fashion. This
map, from a ms. of Priscian's _Peviegesis_, appears
to have been executed at the end of the 10th century; it
is on vellum, highly finished, and has been engraved, in
outline, in Playfair's _Atlas_ (Pl. I), and more fully
in the _Penny Magazine_ (July 22, 1837). In the reign
of Henry II., it appears to have belonged to Battle Abbey.


THE TURIN MAP OF THE 11TH CENTURY 76

(B. Mus., Map room. From Ottino's reproduction).
One of the oldest and simplest of Christian Mappe-Mondes,
giving a special prominence to Paradise, (with the figures