Although the monk never set foot outside Venice, his Mappa Mundi is amazingly accurate in its depiction of cities, provinces, continents, rivers and mountains.

In the book Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map, by P.D.A. Harvey, a glossary is given for the map’s varied creatures and mythical beasts. It writes that dragons were found in India, ...

Hereford Cathedral is home to the Mappa Mundi - which is seen as one of the world’s greatest medieval treasures. Measuring 1.59 x 1.34 metres (5ft 2ins by 4ft 4ins), the map is constructed on a ...

Our word “map” came into English (probably through French) from the Latin phrase mappa mundi, map of the world. But mappa really means table-napkin; a map is the world inscribed on a napkin.

Around 1450, the Venetian government commissioned a monk named Fra Mauro to make a mappa mundi, a map of the world.His map is a circle nearly 7 feet in diameter, crammed with illustrations and ...

Beyond the outlines of countries and continents, Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi is a magnificent golden and blue painting composed of minute drawings of gorgeous palaces, bridges, sailing ships, rolling ...