Desvelando un fantasma. Sobre un mapamundi árabe, la Torre de Hércules y las representaciones de faros en la cartografía medieval
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El tratado cosmográfico y geográfico árabe titulado Libro de las Curiosidades de las Ciencias y Maravillas para los Ojos (primera mitad del siglo XI), se conserva, desde su adquisición en el año 2002, en la Bodleian Library de Oxford. Sus páginas contienen un mapamundi rectangular en el que la única construcción dibujada son las legendarias Puertas del Caspio, atribuidas a Alejandro Magno. Al otro confín de las tierras habitadas, frente al ángulo noroccidental de la península ibérica, una enigmática forma de torre arruinada suscitó la posibilidad de que se tratara del antiguo faro romano conocido como la Torre de Hércules (La Coruña, España). Aunque finalmente esta hipótesis fue descartada, se hace necesaria una explicación de las azarosas circunstancias que condujeron a la aparición de esta fantasmal imagen para evitar futuras confusiones, a la vez que se aportan nuevas consideraciones en torno a las representaciones de la Torre de Hércules y otros
faros de la Antigüedad en los mapamundis medievales
The cosmographic and geographical Arab treatise titled The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes (first half of the 10th century), is preserved, since its acquisition in the year 2002, at the Oxford Bodleian Library. Inside his pages it contains a rectangular world map, which shows as the only represented building the legendary Caspian Gates, attributed to Alexander the Great. In the other confines of the inhabited lands, opposite to the north-western angle of the Iberian Peninsula, an enigmatic shape of a dilapidated tower raised the possibility that it was the figure of the ancient Roman lighthouse known as Tower of Hercules (La Coruña, Spain). Although this hypothesis finally had to be abandoned, to avoid future confusions an explanation is necessary of the eventful circumstances that surround the appearance of this figure; as well as supplied new thoughts, concerning the representations of the Tower of Hercules and other lighthouses in medieval mappae mundi
The cosmographic and geographical Arab treatise titled The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes (first half of the 10th century), is preserved, since its acquisition in the year 2002, at the Oxford Bodleian Library. Inside his pages it contains a rectangular world map, which shows as the only represented building the legendary Caspian Gates, attributed to Alexander the Great. In the other confines of the inhabited lands, opposite to the north-western angle of the Iberian Peninsula, an enigmatic shape of a dilapidated tower raised the possibility that it was the figure of the ancient Roman lighthouse known as Tower of Hercules (La Coruña, Spain). Although this hypothesis finally had to be abandoned, to avoid future confusions an explanation is necessary of the eventful circumstances that surround the appearance of this figure; as well as supplied new thoughts, concerning the representations of the Tower of Hercules and other lighthouses in medieval mappae mundi
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Sánchez-García, J. A. (2017). Desvelando un fantasma. Sobre un mapamundi árabe, la Torre de Hércules y las representaciones de faros en la cartografía medieval. Memoria y Civilización-Anuario de Historia, 20, pp. 259-308
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https://doi.org/10.15581/001.20.259-308Sponsors
Proyectos sobre fuentes gráficas para la historia de la arquitectura en Galicia obtenidos desde el año 2000 por el Grupo de Investigación GI-1510-HAAYDU de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y, especialmente, en el reciente proyecto "Memoria, textos e imágenes" financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad para los años 2015 a 2017
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