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<p class="MsoPlainText">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">New Light on Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging and
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Early Renaissance Cartography by Chet Van Duzer (Los Altos Hills, California)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Wednesday 23 September, Oxford<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Weston Library Lecture Theatre, 1pm-2pm. Admission free.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">In this talk Chet will give an account of a recent project to make multispectral
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<p class="MsoPlainText">images of a world map made by Henricus Martellus in about 1491, which
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<p class="MsoPlainText">is held by the Beinecke Library at Yale. This large map has long been
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<p class="MsoPlainText">thought to be one of the most important of the fifteenth century, and
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<p class="MsoPlainText">was thought to have influenced Martin Waldseemüller’s world map of
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<p class="MsoPlainText">1507, but the many texts on the map were illegible due to fading and
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<p class="MsoPlainText">damage, and thus its exact place in Renaissance cartography was
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<p class="MsoPlainText">impossible to determine. The new multispectral images have rendered
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<p class="MsoPlainText">many of the previously illegible texts on the map legible. Chet will
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<p class="MsoPlainText">explain why the Martellus map was an excellent candidate for
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<p class="MsoPlainText">multispectral imaging, describe the process of making the images, show
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<p class="MsoPlainText">some of the results, and give an account of the place of the Martellus
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<p class="MsoNormal">map in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century cartography.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More details at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/sep/recovering-lost-details-of-the-1491-martellus-world-map">
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/sep/recovering-lost-details-of-the-1491-martellus-world-map</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">This one-off event will introduce a number of themes currently being explored in the Bodleian, and at the forthcoming Gough Map symposium in Oxford on November 2<sup>nd</sup> (registration information to be announced shortly)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Should you need more information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">With best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">_____________________________________________________<br>
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Nick Millea<br>
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Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG<br>
Tel: 01865 287119<br>
Email: nick.millea@bodleian.ox.ac.uk<br>
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Web: <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps">http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Map Room blog …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/">http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
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