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Discovering 16th Century Atlases

18th March 202018th March 2020 Paula Williams

Blog written by Rosie Seidel, MSc in Book History and Material Culture student at the University of Edinburgh. In an effort to increase the discoverability of and access to maps in the collections, I have been working to index and identify editions of 15th century Ptolemaic and Ortelian atlases.

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Finding, Researching and Listing a Wall Map of Canaan

14th March 201914th March 2019 Paula Williams

Blog written by Ted Simonds, History of the Book student at the University of Edinburgh Whilst listing the maps included in the Library’s atlas collection I came across a six sheet wall chart bound into a composite atlas. When it came to researching the map in greater detail, I realised that compiling is something the […]

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You are Here A journey through maps.

29th December 201621st December 2016 Paula Williams

Accurate, beautiful, clever, dangerous, exciting. Maps can be all of these things. They show us new places, help us re-imagine familiar haunts and even enable us to travel through time. A map is both a useful tool and a magic carpet to far-away places. In the cold winter months we can travel in our minds […]

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