https://hist231.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/b2b81724c7c4fa7241ccf772ea656ff2.jpg 8d0d9a8b849a01c1b8eab98f44a97ade Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Book of the Islands of the Archipelago Description An account of the resource The Liber Insularum Archipelagi is an island book (insularium in Latin, isolario in Italian) written by a Florentine monk Cristoforo Buondelmonti around 1420. One of the first and most influential island books, it was widely circulated in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. It offers an encyclopedic and antiquarian atlas of 79 places in the Ionian and Aegean seas along with accompanying descriptive texts. While most of the featured places are islands, some are groups of islands and coastal places, including Constantinople, Gallipoli, the shores of the Dardanelles, Mount Athos, and Athens. Buondelmonti’s sources are likely ancient writings, existing cartographical traditions such as portolan charts and regional maps, and his firsthand experience and inquiry. The cartography of the Liber Insularum Archipelagi fits best into the pattern of early regional geography. One of the highlights of Liber is a map of the city of Constantinople and its surrounding region. Careful delineation emphasizes architectural structures, fortifications, monuments, civic buildings, ports, and lighthouses. Besides its static view of the city, the map also captures a dynamic moment as it depicts cannon balls shooting at ships passing through the Bosporus. This map of Constantinople offers an important reference to the mapping of the Byzantine capital before Turkish conquest in 1453. (Russell Li '19) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cristoforo Buondelmonti Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf Ms. G 13 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Atlas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Buondelmonti, Cristoforo. Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Liber Insularum Archipelagi: Universitäts- Und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf Ms. G 13, Faksimile. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2005. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1420 Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. manuscript Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Special Collections, Carleton College, Northfield, MN lir2 Relation A related resource <a href="http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-36224" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-36224</a> Language A language of the resource Latin Type The nature or genre of the resource Regional map Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://bridge.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01BRC_INST/1tn7c8c/alma991015567099702971">Carleton Gould Library Special Collections (Folio) DF895 .B8615 2005</a> Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Aegean Islands References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Buondelmonti, Cristoforo. Description of the Aegean and Other Islands. Trans. by Evelyn Edson. New York: Italica Press, 2017. Della Dora, Veronica. “Mapping a Holy Quasi-Island: Mount Athos in Early Renaissance Isolarii.” Imago Mundi 60, no. 2 (July 2008): 139–65. Manners, Ian R. "Constructing the Image of a City: The Representation of Constantinople in Christopher Buondelmonti's Liber Insularum Archipelagi." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87, no. 1 (1997): 72-102. Tolias, George. “Isolarii, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Century.” In History of Cartography, vol. 3, part 1, Cartography in the European Renaissance, ed. David Woodward, 263-283. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights for maps held by individual publishers and institutions. Thumbnails displayed constitute fair use. Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Liber Insularum Archipelagi churches city views fortifications islands monasteries ports ships