{"id":1809343,"date":"2022-10-12T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809343"},"modified":"2022-10-12T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:02:03","slug":"yales-work-on-map-forgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/10\/yales-work-on-map-forgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale&#8217;s Work on Map Forgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the keepers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/tag\/vinland-map\/\">Vinland Map<\/a>, the folks at Yale\u2019s Beinecke Library might be expected to have a few thoughts about map forgeries, seeing as the Vinland Map is arguably the best known example. In <a href=\"https:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu\/article\/map-forgeries\">an article posted to the Beinecke Library website last July<\/a>, Raymond Clemens discusses the work of Yale\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ipch.yale.edu\">Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage<\/a> to determine the Vinland Map\u2019s inauthenticity, and detecting map forgeries in general. Yale seems to be making a point of studying map forgeries, to the point of adding known forgeries to their collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the keepers of the Vinland Map, the folks at Yale\u2019s Beinecke Library might be expected to have a few thoughts about map forgeries, seeing as the Vinland Map is arguably the best known example.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/10\/yales-work-on-map-forgeries\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[439,1112,1195,1585],"class_list":["post-1809343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-beinecke","tag-forgeries","tag-vinland-map","tag-yale","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1808156,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/07\/the-world-in-maps-new-exhibition-at-yales-beinecke-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809343,"position":0},"title":"The World in Maps: New Exhibition at Yale&#8217;s Beinecke Library","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 July 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"An exhibition at Yale University\u2019s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opens this Friday:\u00a0The World in Maps, 1400-1600. This exhibition presents many of the most historically significant manuscript maps from the late medieval and early modern period from the Beinecke Library\u2019s vast collection of maps. It is focused on portolan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1791657,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-is-a-fake\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809343,"position":1},"title":"&#8216;The Vinland Map Is a Fake&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The general consensus has been for some time that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery. A battery of non-destructive tests by Yale University, which holds the map in its Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been performed on the map, and the results of those tests have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Vinland Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1785507,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/re-analyzing-the-vinland-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809343,"position":2},"title":"Re-Analyzing the Vinland Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The general consensus is that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery, not a pre-Columbian 15th-century map showing Norse explorations of North America. That doesn't seem to stop Yale University from continuing to study the map, which is held in Yale's\u00a0Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The map is being\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1791775,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-and-modern-mythmaking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809343,"position":3},"title":"The Vinland Map and Modern Mythmaking","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 September 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Read David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele\u2019s long Smithsonian article on the conclusion that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery. Among other things, it places the map in the context of mythmaking around Viking history and an anti-Catholic, pro-northern-European narrative of American discovery that aimed to displace the Columbus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1542,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/beinecke-acquires-map-of-harlem-nightclubs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809343,"position":4},"title":"Beinecke Acquires Map of Harlem Nightclubs","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has announced that it has acquired \"the original artwork for a 1932 map of Harlem nightclubs drawn by E. Simms Campbell, the first African American illustrator to be syndicated and whose work was featured regularly in national magazines.\u00a0The map, purchased at auction\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/harlem-nightlife-1024x666.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/harlem-nightlife-1024x666.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/harlem-nightlife-1024x666.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/harlem-nightlife-1024x666.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1214,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/upcoming-talks-and-workshops\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809343,"position":5},"title":"Upcoming Talks and Workshops","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Here are some talks and workshops hosted by local map societies coming up in the second half of March 2016: Thursday, 17 March 2016, Chicago IL.\u00a0In-Car Navigation Systems: A Twenty-Year Retrospective. 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