A British map from 1190 about Santiago

[Pelegrin]

From La Voz de Galicia: a British map from 1190 identifies Santiago d C, with the end of History.

The map shows a big church with the legend "Galicia"


http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/notici...ntiago-final-historia/0003_201410G9P39991.htm

 

[Margaret Butterworth]

Could you please translate this? Sorry, my Spanish isn't good enough!

 

[Olivares]

Could you please translate this? Sorry, my Spanish isn't good enough!

Margaret-- use Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/

Just Copy the Spanish text on the article and paste it on the left field block. The translation will show on the right field block (default English; many others languages can be selected).

It states the Portico de la Gloria is contemporary with this 1190 map, so it helped understanding the inspiration for some of the figures in this impressive portico. The East-West flat orientation with Jerusalem in the middle-- interesting.

 

[mspath]

Margaret,

Furthermore this 1190 map known as the Sawley map of the world depicts geographical west, Galicia and Santiago at the bottom and at the 'end of history', ie the end of the then known world.

MM

 

[Felipe]

There is a more detailed description of this map here
A better representation of this cartographic treasure is here (available with a couple of clicks on the image)
Many of these medieval maps were not painted to be read from top to bottom, but as a kind of spiral narrative, with Jerusalen at the center.
So, that this map was about the Camino seems to me as disputable -but it is an entertaining idea.
A pity, not to be in Santiago to attend this lecture.

 

[Deacon Harbey Santiago]

Furthermore; in the article... The map relates the SDC cathedral with the end of the world as well as the end of History.

"Viva Cristo Rey!!"
Deacon Santiago

 

[Olivares]

So, that this map was about the Camino seems to me as disputable -but it is an entertaining idea.

I don't think the original poster stated the map is about the Camino (the Camino was not even mentioned....). He correctly cited the map reference to Cathedral in Santiago (named Galicia) as associated with the end of the world (Finisterre). If anything, it would reinforced the notion that what many called "pilgrimage" to Santiago may had been exploration ventures to "the end of the world" (Finisterre).

 

[Felipe]

I don't think the original poster stated the map is about the Camino (the Camino was not even mentioned....). He correctly cited the map reference to Cathedral in Santiago (named Galicia) as associated with the end of the world (Finisterre). If anything, it would reinforced the notion that what many called "pilgrimage" to Santiago may had been exploration ventures to "the end of the world" (Finisterre).

Well, not the OP but the original notice (ON?). My clumsy translation:

"The map has the Paradise on top, with its four rivers, and drawing a vertical line it goes by milestones of mankind as the city founded by Cain, the tower of Babel, Jerusalem and Rome, arriving finally in Santiago . It was understood that as civilization had already reached its limits by the West, the end was near. The person that followed the map to Compostela, received at the portico <of the cathedral> the announcement that “the end of your way (camino) is also the end of History”.

 

[Olivares]

I see what you are saying, Felipe. I find this fascinating. To tie the Cathedral in Santiago with the Apocalipsis I think is such fascinating research. Notice this is all sponsored by an American instituion, the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation. Kudos.