Hereford Mappa Mundi
Medieval mapmakers were not drawing the world to scale. They were drawing it as a story, and the Hereford Mappa Mundi tells that story better than any surviving example. Stanfords engraved this facsimile in 1869, capturing the circular T-O world of the original: Jerusalem at the center, east at the top, the Mediterranean and the Nile carving the disc into Asia, Africa and Europe, with scripture, classical legend and marginal beasts crowded into the spaces between.
Read it as a document of how thirteenth-century England understood creation, not as a guide to coastlines. Latin lettering runs throughout. It reads beautifully on a study wall, in a university history department, or in a library reading room.
- Reproduction from the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive, scanned at high resolution from the 1869 Stanfords engraving
- Available on premium 36lb paper, with 1.7mil satin lamination, mounted to 1/4 inch foam core, or railed and framed in black or walnut molding
A reproduction, not an original sheet, printed and finished on demand by Map Shop.

