Assistance w/ Identification

[Karen Pinto]

OK here goes. My first attempt to use this new forum

I am trying to find the ms. number and location for this T-O map but try as I may it is eluding me. I know I have it somewhere in one of my many medieval European map books & aerticles but the needle is not emerging out of the haystack. It is as I recall 12/13th c.
Does anyone know the ms. number and folio for this map and secondary source listings on it?

Thanks in advance.

Karen Pinto

[Joel Kovarsky]

I see one reference to this specific image as being from:

[Detail] Diagrammatic T-O map. The world is portrayed as a circle divided by a 'T' shape into three continents; Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Title of Book: Etymologies
Author: Isidore, Saint, Bishop of Seville
Production: 12th century
Language: Latin

From The British Library; Record Number - c5933-06; Shelfmark - Royal 12 F. IV; Page Folio Number - f.135v.

I'm sure Evelyn Edson would know, if she sees this. Also, perhaps the BL could verify this citation as applicable to the specific image you note.

[Karen Pinto]

Thanks, Joel. Your amazing! How did you find it so quickly? I have 3 Edson books open and a couple of her articles and other books too and I don't have it listed in any of these. Its another book that I haven't found yet. Why do we forget so easily? Memory is such a battle especially while writing.

If anyone has further info on this ms., I would appreciate it.
thanks again, Karen

[Joel Kovarsky]

Mainly a couple of keywords, and a direct search in Google Images. And I've been able to verify it in British Library Images Online. I knew I'd also seen it before.

[Karen Pinto]

Do you have a link for the BL Online Images cat in which you found it. I did the Google search too but came up with naught.
You must be a Google champ.

[Joel Kovarsky]

Go to their advanced search page: http://imagesonline.bl.uk/?service=search&action=show_advanced_search_page&language= and enter in the shelfmark line "Royal 12 F. IV" (without quotes). There will be a number of images that pop-up, but you can see it quickly.