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Menazilname, 1537

The collection of images in Matrakçı Nasuh’s Menazilname serves as an “account of Sultan Süleyman Süleyman Khan’s Iraqi campaign,” according to an…

Marquisate of Brandenburg, with the Duchies of Pomerania and Mecklenburg

This map is a representation of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania (modern day northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland) from an atlas by…

Mappamundi of Lambert of St. Omer

Description of the Liber Floridus mappamundi: There are three existing manuscripts of the Liber Floridus: the original in Ghent that was made before…

Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the highly schematized mappamundi in the Codex Urgellensis is its representation of mountains, rivers, and…

Map of the Inferno

Included 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…

Map of Tetela de Ocampo in Puebla

Set as but one element of a collection of facsimiles, this map finds itself alongside other colonial Spanish maps of the territories of New Spain that…

Map of Saxe-Hildburghausen

This square map written in Latin and German depicts the region of Saxe-Hildburghausen, what is today the District of Hildburghausen in south-western…

Map of New Galicia

This 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…

This map, a portolan chart from the late 15th Century, presents the Mediterranean and the landmasses around it. The map, colorful and probably…

Map of Halle with Cartouche

This map of Halle is believed to be a later state of another map of Halle held in Carleton’s Special Collections. Published by the Homann firm in…