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- Title
MÜNSTER'S MONSTER MEETS DOROTHY'S DRAGON: LORD PETER WIMSEY CONSULTS THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE COSMOGRAPHIA.
- Authors
Whyte, Brendan
- Abstract
Dorothy L. Sayers's detective story "The learned adventure of the dragon's head" uses, as the crux of its plot, a supposedly hand-annotated copy of Sebastian Münster's map of the Canary Islands, taken from an unspecified Latin edition of his Cosmographiae Universalis. This paper summarises Sayers's use of the map in her story, then discusses the Cosmographia and its publication history, before identifying the edition Sayers used as that of 1559, issued several years after Münster's death. More than a dozen copies of this edition are held in British libraries, but while her original artwork has now been discovered in the US, the exact copy from which Sayers reproduced the map remains unidentified.
- Subjects
SAYERS, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957; DRAGONS; MONSTERS; CARTOGRAPHY; DETECTIVES; ISLANDS; ADVENTURE &; adventurers
- Publication
Globe (0311-3930), 2022, Issue 91, p61
- ISSN
0311-3930
- Publication type
Article