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This late 12th Century manuscript maze (13cm in diameter)
is in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich (Clm. 14731,
Fol 82 v.). The text above the maze reads CUM MINOTHAURO
PUGNAT THESEUS [IN] LABORINTO. = Theseus fights with
the Minotaur in the Labyrinth.
Click for larger
image.
The maze design was clearly intended to be the 12-level
simple,
alternating, transit maze
with level sequence
0 3 2 1 4 7 6 5 8 11 10 9 12, a common maze in medieval
manuscripts,
but the 11th level was taken over by the center image (traces of it
are still visible); level
8 is led directly to the center; levels 9 and 10 are now cut off
from the rest of the path, and have been joined separately
to the center. The topological meaning of the maze has been sacrificed
to the visual impact of the composition.