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- Collection: Mapping the World Before Mercator (2024)
The van Keulen family firm, known as “In de Gecroonde Lootsman”, which created the Zee-Atlas, “dominated Dutch maritime cartography for two…
This is a zone map drawn in color, with the Red Sea brightly visible in red. Like many other medieval maps, it is drawn as a circle surrounded by…
The Vallard Atlas, named after the temporary owner Nicolas Vallard, is a collection of 15 nautical maps from 1547. These maps are primarily of coasts…
The Urbis Romae Topographia written by Bartolomeo Marliani in 1544, is a book exploring the city of Rome and includes maps that depict the city. In…
Battista Agnese was one of the most prolific Venetian cartographers of the second half of the sixteenth century. Although he is often written off as…
The star chart in Stephan Fridolin’s Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation is a woodcut print depicting Earth at the center of the solar system.…
This portolan chart of the Mediterranean, drawn in 1508 by Andrea Benincacsa, is illustrated on a complete piece of parchment. Benincasa, the son of…
This map depicts central Europe, from the Baltic Sea down to Venice, and from Flanders to the Crimean peninsula. It mainly focuses on cities and the…
The Miller Atlas is a collection of a eight beautifully embellished maps from 1519. They are attributed to Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel, and Jorge Reinel,…
The collection of images in Matrakçı Nasuh’s Menazilname serves as an “account of Sultan Süleyman Süleyman Khan’s Iraqi campaign,” according to an…