Diagrams of the Terrestrial Climate Zones with the Riphaean Mountains and the Circuit of the Moon in the Zodiac

late 12th century

15.5 cm 26.7 cm

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In the diagram in the top half of the page, the observer's point-of-view is the North Pole. This diagram is similar to the one in the lower part of fol. 6v of this same manuscript, except that it also shows the Riphaean Mountains – a mythical range of peaks thought to mark the...

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Gruel and Englemann Collection, Paris [1]; acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] no. 131, bookplate on inside upper board
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