Psalter world map

[1] The Psalter mappa mundi was likely used to provide context for the Bible's stories as well as a visual narrative of Christianity.

Mappae mundi were not utilized as maps for travel or geographical education, but as history lessons taught through a visual means.

Historian Felicitas Schmieder[2] refers to mappa mundi as "Geographies of Salvation" as they are report the narrative of Christ's interaction with our world.

They served to highlight days of canonization of saints and other important holidays,[6] f. 17r-v has simple prayers usually found in psalters, ff.

The Map Psalter is unlikely to have been created after 1280 due to the lack of acknowledgement to the sainthood one of translators of St. Hugh of Lincoln in 1280.

[10] There is no explicit text in the Map Psalter that exactly pinpoint a place of production, but there are a few hints as to where it could have been made.

It is confirmed that the Sarum Master, illuminators based out of Salisbury, made the Stockholm Psalter.

This comes in the form of similar foliage ornamentation, liberal use of color, facial type, and strongly delineated black lines.

Another idea, is the Map Psalter is of Westminster provenance due to tinting of the pages sharing similarities to Morgan Apocalypse.

Also on f. 225v "Anne my eldeast doughter was borne the xiiij day of July in the yere of our lorde God 1557" written in 16th century hand.

It is a typical mappa mundi that does not only show the geographical and historical knowledge, but also puts it into the frame of salvation history.

The easiest conclusion of which is discussed by Grčić[7] and Mittman[12] is that the artist drew the map from a perceptive of the civilized against the uncivilized.

Both author highlight this may be attempting to show the difference in the "civilized" and the barbarians like in the story of Gog and Magog.