Old Norse cosmography
Reference code
MSS/0289
Title
Old Norse cosmography
Date
early 19th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. iv + 5.
Quarto.
Paper binding, green with gold border, over board.
Quarto.
Paper binding, green with gold border, over board.
Scope and content
'Old-Nordisk Cosmographie efter de eddiske Myther' (fol. iii). Old Norse cosmography according to the Edda myths. Four coloured drawings (fols. 1-4) showing the world tree Yggdrasill, etc., with key (fol. iv). Folded sheet (fol. 5) containing circular drawings of five cosmographies (Old Norse, Greek, Persian and two Indian). Printed zodiacal calendar, 1820, Norwegian, on the pastedown, fol. i.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/289