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Catalan mapThis is a circular map (dia. 113 cm.)from 1450 incorporating elements form mappaemundi and portolan charts. It depicts Europe, Asia, and Africa. The…
Rome in the time of Clement VIIIThe Plan of Rome by Antonio Tempesta, created by Antonio Tempesta in 1593, is an enormous map of the city that stretches across 12 separate plates.…
Khalili Portolan AtlasThe Khalili Portolan Atlas takes its reader on a tour through what comes to feel like a familiar, coherent world of Mediterranean ports. Most notable…
Book of the Islands of the ArchipelagoThe Liber Insularum Archipelagi is an island book (insularium in Latin, isolario in Italian) written by a Florentine monk Cristoforo Buondelmonti…
Atlante NauticoThe Atlante Nautico is a collection of ten maps made in 1436 by “Andreas Biancho de Veneciis” as attested on the first page. Besides containing 15th…
Map of New GaliciaThis is one of many maps of various styles contained within the “Mapas de Mexico en el Archivo de Indias Sevilla”, a collection of the many products…
Pfinzing AtlasThe Pfinzing Atlas is a bound collection (47 x 70 cm) of twenty-eight maps and descriptions that was created in 1594 by Nuremberg merchant Paul…
Ptolemaic World MapA world map showing Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the Indian Ocean bounded on all sides by land, which shows the influence of the maps associated…
CosmographeiCosmographei contains a world map, regional maps, as well as cosmographical maps.The world maps includes, present-day North and South America, as well…
Map of the InfernoIncluded in the Codex Altonensis, this diagram functions as a map of Dante’s passage through hell. Flanked by images of Dante and Virgil entering and…