of Adam, Eve, and the serpent), to the mountains and
rivers of the world, and to the four winds of heaven. It is
to be associated with the Spanish map of 1109, and the
Mappe-Monde of St. Sever.


THE SPANISH-ARABIC MAP OF 1109 84

(B. Mus., Add. mss., 11695). The original, gorgeously
coloured, represents the crudest of Christian and Moslem
notions of the world. Even more crude than in the Turin
map and the Mappe-Monde of St. Sever, both of which offer
some resemblances to this. The earth is represented as of
quadrangular shape, surrounded by the ocean. At the E.
is Paradise with the figures of the Temptation. A part of
the S. is cut off by the Red Sea, which is straight (and
coloured red), just as the straight Mediterranean, with its
quadrangular islands, divides the N.W. quarter, or Europe,
from the S.W. quarter, or Africa. The Ægean Sea joins
the Mediterranean at a right angle, in the centre of the
map. In the ocean, bordering the whole, are square
islands, _e.g._, Tile (Thule), Britania, Scocia,
Fu(o)rtunarum insula. The Turin map occurs in another
copy of the same work--_A Commentary on the Apocalypse_.


THE PSALTER MAP OF THE 13TH CENTURY 92

(B. Mus., Add. mss., 28, 681). A good illustration of
the circular type of mediæval map, which is sometimes