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This small (14.3 x 9.5 cm) and delicately detailed Psalter Map in the collection of the British Library (Add. ms. 28681) accompanies a thirteenth-century copy of the Psalms. A mappamundi with the Old Temple at its navel, it is centered on Jerusalem, with Africa to the lower right, Europe to the bottom left, and Asia taking up the top half of the world disk (visible). We no longer center ourselves in space. Do we do so in time? Psalter Map reprinted by permission of the British Library.