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The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades

Note 1211 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

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The Beatus (Miller, Mappaemundi, vol. ii, 1895, pls. 3a, 3b—our Fig. 4 463on p. 123, above—4–9; vol. i, 1895, pp. 35, 39, and accompanying reproduction—our Fig. 2 on p. 69 above) and Psalter (ibid., vol. ii, pl. 1; vol. iii, pl. 3) maps show Paradise in Asia; those of Henry of Mayence (ibid., vol. ii, pl. 13; vol. iii, pl. 2) and of Lambert (ibid., vol. iii, pl. 4) place it on an island. On Paradise as represented on these and other medieval maps, see Coli, Il paradiso terrestre, 1897, pp. 100–122.

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