L’Image du monde

encyclopaedia by Gautier de Metz
Also known as: “Mappemonde”

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  • In Gautier de Metz

    …a treatise about the universe, L’Image du monde (c. 1246; “The Mirror of the World”; also called Mappemonde), based on the medieval Latin text Imago mundi by Honorius Inclusus.

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    In encyclopaedia: Three stages of development

    …vernacular editions, such as the Mappemonde and Li livres dou trésor, and the reflection of the impact of Greek philosophical works (in translation) in the middle of the 13th century. In this era there was an increasing number of lay encyclopaedists—e.g., Latini, Bandini, de la Torre—and the subject coverage changed…

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