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Description of the March of BrandenburgThis map displays the Brandenburg March, a borderland in northeastern Germany in 1598. The map is engraved and shows the town names, rivers and lakes,…
Dukedom of Prussia leaves Poland and joins BrandenbergThis map is a rectangular map of the Baltic area from about 38˚ to 45˚ longitude and from about 53˚ to 56˚ latitude. The latitude and longitude are…
Enlargement of Ptolemy's DescriptionThe Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum by Cornelis van Wytfliet is the only regional atlas published during the first hundred years of atlas…
Fra Mauro MappamundiOriginating sometime between 1448 and 1460, Fra Mauro’s remarkably detailed and complex world map was created at the monastery of San Michele on…
Frankfurt on the Oder RiverOn an off-white rectangular sheet of paper, a rectangular colorful woodcut print of the city of Frankfurt an der Oder is surrounded by a black frame…
Genoese World MapThe Genoese World Map of 1457 is a truly unique example of hybridization of different medieval cartographic styles. While still technically classified…
Geography of AfricaLivio Sanuta’s Geografia dell’Africa contains 12 two-page black and white maps, sketched by Livio and engraved by his brother Giulio, depicting Africa…
Girona Codex This map is a mappamundi that illustrates Beatus of Liebana’s Girona Codex, one of the most highly decorated manuscripts of his Commentary on the…
Halle and Hildesheim from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum [Cities of the World]This page depicts views of the German cities of Halle and Hidelsheim. It comes from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a multi-volume 16th-century atlas of…
The top of the map depicts a biblical judgment scene and then moves down into Asia, the holy land, then finally Europe and Africa. You may also notice…