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English: Scotland Beyond The Sea: a detail from the Matthew Paris map of Britain, c.1250
Paris was a Benedictine monk of the abbey at St. Albans. He died in 1259. The Scottish heartland (Alba) is perceived as an almost separate island reached by Stirling Bridge and situated beyond the Firth of Forth and an unidentified firth in the west. Mediaeval English chroniclers refer to the Firth of Forth as 'the Scottish Sea'. Scotland north of the Moray Firth (seemingly confused with the River Tay) is shown pointing eastwards to Scandinavia; an error copied from Ptolemy's map from the 2nd Century AD. This image is annotated on its description page at Commons.
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Matthew Paris  (1200–1259)  wikidata:Q369366 s:en:Author:Matthew Paris q:pl:Mateusz Paryżanin
 
Matthew Paris
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Matthæus Parisiensis
Description British manuscript illuminator and cartographer
Date of birth/death circa 1200
date QS:P,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
between May 1259 and June 1259
date QS:P,+1259-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1259-05-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1259-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
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Location of birth/death England St Albans
Work period 1217 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q369366

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