Medieval Digital Maps

The Oxford Outremer Map is a thirteenth-century map of State of Israel as well as Palestine. The map too encompasses parts of modern 24-hour interval Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Arab Republic of Egypt as well as Jordan. The map seems to pull the portion sometime betwixt 1229 as well as 1244, when Christians had command of Jerusalem. The map itself was in all likelihood built to aide European pilgrims to Jerusalem.

The Fordham Medieval Digital Projects has created an interactive version of the Oxford Outremer Map. The digital version of the map includes interactive place-names. If y'all click on a place-name on the map y'all tin read a translation, a brief description as well as a link to thought this location on a modern digital map.

You tin read to a greater extent than nigh the Oxford Outremer Map as well as how it was digitized on the Fordham Medieval Digital Projects website.


The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest surviving medieval map of the world. The map is on display inwards Hereford Cathedral, UK. If y'all can't teach to Hereford to thought the map inwards mortal y'all tin at to the lowest degree thought the map online. Mappa Muni allows y'all to explore as well as seek the details of the map inwards a good designed interactive presentation.

The online version of the map includes a color enhanced thought as well as a 3d Scan Factum view. The 3d thought includes some interesting data nigh the vellum used to practice the map as well as reveals of import facts nigh how the map was created as well as where piece repairs to the map accept been made over the centuries.

The online Mappa Mundi includes a position out of map markers that permit the viewer to explore locations on the map inwards detail. Jerusalem is at the meat of the map as well as East is at the top. If y'all guide whatever of the markers y'all tin thought a close-up of the location as well as read nigh some of the cities, people, beasts as well as myths depicted on the map.


The Gough Map or Bodleian Map is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain. The map in all likelihood dates dorsum to the 14th or 15th centuries.

There is some fighting over the historic menses of the Gough Map as well as Linguistic Geographies has been attempting to answer the query of who made the map & when past times examining the linguistic communication as well as place-names used on the map. Their enquiry of the map's linguistic communication suggests that some of the map’s writing dates to only about the 1370s. The enquiry too constitute bear witness that some of the place-names on the map accept been overwritten at afterwards dates.

You tin seek the map as well as the map's linguistic communication yourself inwards unopen exceptional on The Linguistic Geographies digital version of the map.