Date/Time
Date(s) - 13 Jan 2015
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
The New York Society for Ethical Culture
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The New York Map Society presents: a talk by Chet Van Duzer
“Water, Lawsuits and Maps in Fourteenth-Century Mallorca”
Tuesday, January 13, 6:30-8:00 pm
The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
Van Duzer writes: “In this lecture I will discuss a large-format medieval local map which is essentially unknown outside of Catalyuna (Spain): the “Pergamí de la Siquia,” a map of the Siquia aqueduct in Palma de Mallorca made in 1344-1345. The map indicates the water rights of the people who lived along the aqueduct, and was used to settle disputes about those rights. I will emphasize the distinctive qualities of the map by comparing and contrasting it with an English map which is
superficially similar, namely the thirteenth-century map of the water supply of Waltham Abbey which is British Library, Harley MS 391, f.6r. I will also discuss a more artistically elaborate copy of the “Pergamí de la Siquia” made in the eighteenth century.”