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Depiction of Dante’s CosmosConsidered to be the first illuminated manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the Dante Poggiali (named for the man who discovered it)…
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…
Image of the World Pierre d’Ailly’s Imago mundi was written in 1410; this printed edition adds several related treatises and was published in the 1480s. Christopher…
A beautiful example of a portolan chart atlas from the 14th century by Pietro Vesconte highlights the importance of coastal cities in the exploration…
Khalili Portolan Atlas With 62 sheets on Venetian paper stained with black splotches throughout, the Khalili Portolan Atlas combines minimalist portolan charts depicting the…
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…
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…
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…
Prussia, now a province of GermanyThis map is an image of the region of Prussia with a city featured prominently in it. It is contained in a page cut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. The…
CosmographeiCosmographei contains a world map, regional maps, as well as cosmographical maps.The world maps includes, present-day North and South America, as well…