The Sawley map and other world maps in twelfth-century England

The misnamed 'Henry of Mainz' world map of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century comes from Sawley Abbey, Yorkshire, but was probably drawn either at Durham Cathedral Priory or from a Durham exemplar. In this note, the map is set into the context of recent work on the manuscript volume containing the map and on the text it accompanies. The evidence for other world maps in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century England is examined, and it is shown how the words mappa mundi in a booklist do not necessarily mean a map.