Interior image of a bird, possibly juvenile crow or other black bird. Bird standing on a box, head is out of focus.
Anatomy of salvia - transference of pollen
Hand drawn, illustrated climate map. Slide labels it as by Petrus Alphonsus c AD1110
This is the earliest surviving mappa mundi (world map) made in England. Formerly known as the Henry of Mainz map it is now known as the Sawley map. It was made between about 1180 and the early 13th century. The map is the frontispiece of a copy of the Imago mundi of Honorius of Autun. It is oriented with east (and the Garden of Eden) at the top and the island of Delos at the centre. It is annotated "Henry of Mainz c AD1110"
Ancient illustrated circular map of world.
Hand drawn illustrated map in circular form. It is annotated with lots of detail and information. Label on slide reads "British Museum. Maps 184 d. 2 BORGIAN MAP" The Borgia Map is an ancient mappa mundi, or world map, thought to have been made sometime in the early 15th century, and engraved on a metal plate.
An ancient map of the world. The slide is labelled "Strassburg 9th Century
Matthew Paris map circa 1250. He drew the first regional maps of Britain, made even more notable for his decision to orient them with north at the top, in an age when most maps looked eastward. Slide is labelled "British Museum. Cot MS CLAUD. D VI fol 8. GT BRITAIN Matthew Paris"
Hand drawn and ancient , decorative mappa mundi. Label on slide reads " British Museum Maps 29.b.4 ST SEVER" Also known as the Beatus map from the Saint-Sever Beatus, produced in Saint-Sever Abbey, France in the 9th century. The map is faced eastwards, and not northwards, as usual in modern cartography. For this reason it is said that the map is oriented
Hand drawn and illustrated map showing Asia Minor,Arctic and Antarctica among several annotations. Slide is titled Macrobian "Cotton" Zone Map of the tenth Century. Language on the slide is in Latin.
Hand drawn and Illustrated map of England, Northern France, Scotland and Wales from Insularium Illustratum, Henricus Martellus Germanus. The slide is labelled "British Museum. ADSMS. 15760 fol 94 Henricus Martellus Germanus Insularium Illustratum 1492."
Hand drawn and illustrated map of Dartmoor. The spelling of place names is not modern English, but includes Brent Hill, Buckland and Tornwood Church
Ancient Map of Devon and Cornwall Borders
Entitled "The Description of East Hundred including Launceston, Saltash and Tamar. The map is oriented with East at the top. Image is pinned to a board.
A hand drawn, illustrated map of the world depicted across a two-page spread of a book. It is the world map of "Henricus Martellus Germanus" (Heinrich Hammer the German), Florence 1489 and the first map with the Dragon Tail, a phantom peninsula east of the Indian Sea. It is a mixture of Ptolemy, recent Portuguese discoveries and unknown sources. Displays the Cape of Good Hope, rounded by Bartolomeo Dias in 1488. The slide is annotated "British Museum. ADD. MS 15760. Map of 1492 Insularium Illustratum. Henricus Martellus Germanus"
A hand drawn, illustrated map by Guido of Pisa. Slide labels its date 1119 AD
Arrangements for the reception of insects at the entrance to the flower