MAPPAEMUNDI
1200-1500
SINGLE MANUSCRIPTS
@ 2000 Jolanta T. Pekacz and Andrew C. Gow
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THIRTEENTH CENTURY
1. GERVASE OF TILBURY
ca. 1214
not extant
Bibliography:
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 25
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2. VERCELLI MAP
ca. 1200
Vercelli Archivo Capitolare
Reproductions:
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 3.5:997
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag), 1958, 82
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXV
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXIII
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXIII
Reproductions of details:
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press), 1968, fig. 2.6 (one humped camel in Ethiopia)
Bibliography:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue préparé par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.1
Errera, C., "Un mappamondo medievale sconosciuto nell’Archivo capitolare de Vercelli," Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, XLVI (1910), 8-11
Brizio, A. M. Catalogo delle case d’arte et di antichità d’Italia . . . VIII (Vercelli, Roma, 1935), 109-110
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), 35-36, 60, 109, 125, 186
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3. ‘PSALTER’ MAP
13th century [c. 1260]
London, British Library, Add. MS. 28681, fol. 9r
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), 1964, pl. XVIII
Bevan W. L. and H. W. Phillot, Medieval geography. An essay in illustration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi (Amsterdam: Meridian, 1969), Introduction
Hahn-Woernle, Brigit (ed.), Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Ebstorf: Kloster Ebstorf, 1987), fig. 21, 22
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.63
Barber, Peter, "Visual Encyclopaedias: the Hereford and other Mappae Mundi," The Map Collector, Autumn 1989, No. 48, fig. on p. 5
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), il. 6
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), pl. 2
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth), 1895-98, 3:37
Villiers, J. A. J. de, "Famous maps in the British Museum," The Geographical Journal 42 (1914), 168-188
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 3.5:998
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 26
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 49.8
Brincken, A-D. von den, "‘. . Ut describeretur universus orbis’: zur Universalkartographie des Mittelalters," Miscellanea Mediaevalia 7 (1970)
Bevan W. L. and H. W. Phillot, Medieval geography. An essay inillustration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi (Amsterdam: Meridian), 1969, Introduction, description of map nr 7
Brincken, A-D. von den, "Raum und Zeit in der Geschichtenzyklopaedie des hohen Mittelalters," Beiträge zur Geschichte von Stadt und Stift Essen, 96 (1981), 5-21
Barber, Peter, "The Manuscript Legacy: Maps in the Department of Manuscripts," The Map Collector, September 1984. No.28, 18-24
Morgan, N. J., Early Gothic Manuscripts 1250-1285. A Survey ofManuscripts illuminated in the British Isles. IV, vol. 2 (London, 1987)
Hahn-Woernle, Brigit (ed.), Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Ebstorf: Kloster Ebstorf, 1987), 32
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), 16-19
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), 7; 17-18
Simek, Rudolf, Erde und Kosmos im Mittelatler. Das Weltbild vor Kolumbus (München: G. H. Beck, 1992), 111
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4. EBSDORF MAP
ca. 1235
Hannover, not extant
Reproductions:
Sommerbrodt, Ernst, Die Edstorfer Weltkarte (Hannower, 1891); original size
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), IV, 3; V, 1
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.1:1116
Rosien, Walter, Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte, Hannover, 1952, p. ?
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 85-88, I pl.
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. E
Tooley, R. V. et al., A History of Cartography (London, 1969), 23
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.19 and 18.65
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), fig. 9.1
Woodward, Davis (ed.), Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), fig. 1.13 [after Bagrow’s History]
Reproductions of details:
Rosien, Walter, Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Hannover, 1952), pl. 13 (Gog and Magog)
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 75 (Gog and Magog, Paradis terrestre), 91 (Ebstorf), 92 (Africans, Amazones)
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXII (Gog and Magog confined by Alexander the Great, easting human flesh and drinking blood; The Garden of Paradise with Adam and Eve), pl. XXIII (Lower Saxony, showing the region where the map was made)
Schnelbögl, Fritz, Dokumente zur Nürnberger Kartographie (Nürnberg: Selbstverlag der Stadtbibliothek, 1966), 45 (German lands, Francia orientalis)
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), fig. 2.2 (the Ethiopian region: camelopardis centre and mirmicaleon extreme right)
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.2 and 18.3
Simek, Rudolf, Erde und Kosmos im Mittelatler. Das Weltbild vor Kolumbus (München: G. H. Beck, 1992), il. 22 (Wundervölker)
Bibliography:
Blumenbach, Ritter, "Beschreibung der ältesten bisher bekannten Landkarte aus Mittelalter im Besitz des Klosters Ebstorf," Vaterländisches Archiv für Hannoverisch- Braunschweigische Geschichte (Hannover, 1834), 1-21
Sommerbrodt, Ernst, Afrika auf der Ebstorfer Weltkarte. Festschrift zum 50jährigen Jubiläum des Historischen Vereins für Niedersachsen (Hannover, 1885)
Sommerbrodt, Ernst, Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Hannover, 1891)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 5: whole volume
Beazley, C. Raymond, "New light on some medieval maps," The Geographical Journal, London, XV (1900), 130-141;
Ruge, Walter, [Compte rendu de: K. Miller, Die Ebstorfkarte] Petermanns Mitteilungen, Gotha, XLVI (1900), Literaturbericht, 149-150 no. 531
Pullé, Francesco Lorenzo, La cartografica antica dell’India, Firenze: Typ. G. Carnesecchi, 1901-1932, vol II (1905), 41-42
Gribaudi, Piero, "L’Italia nel mappomondo di Ebstorf,"Bolletinodella Società Geografica Italiana (Roma, 1903), 1000-15
Ketrzynski, S., "Ze studiów nad Gerwazym z Tilbury" [Studies on Gervase of Tilbury], Rozprawy Akademii Umiejetnosci, Wydz. Histor.-Filozof. 56 (1903)
Ruge, Walter, "Alteres kartographisches Material in deutschen Bibliotheken," Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, Göttingen, 1904, Heft I, 3
Hallberg, Ivan, L’Extreme-Orient dans la littérature et lacartographie de l’Occident des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles (Göteborg: W. Zachrissons Boktryck, 1906); nomenclature
Miller, Konrad, Itineraria romana. Römische Reisewege an der Hand der Tabula Peutingeriana (Stuttgart: Strechker und Schröder, 1916), XXXVIII
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.1:1117-1118
Uhden, Richard, "Die ältesten Verfahren der Erdkreisteilung," Petermanns Mitteilungen, 1930, 126
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 27
Crone, Gerald Roe, The Herefort world map (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1948)
Rosien, Walter, Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Hannover, 1952)
Crone, Gerald Roe, The world map by Richard Haldingham in Herefort Cathedral . . . (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1954)
Dumrese, Hans, Einführung in die Betrachtung der Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Lüneburg: Peters, 1954)
Denholm Joung, N., The "Mappa Mundi" of Richard of Haldingham at Hereford, Cambridge, Mass., 1958
Leithäuser, Joachim G., Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 89-96
Ohnsorge, W., "Zur Datierung der Ebstorfer Weltkarte,"Niedersaechsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschicgte 13 (1961), 158-185
Drögereit, Richard, "Zur Entstehung der Ebsdorfer Weltkarte," Lüneburger Blätter 13 (1962), 5-23
Drögereit, Richard, "Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte und Hildsheim," Zeitschrift des Vereins für Heimatkunde im Bistum Hildesheim, o. J., 9-44 date ?
Staszewski, J., "Polska i Baltyk na mapie swiata z Ebsdorfu" [Poland and the Baltic Sea on the Mappa Mundi of Ensdorf], Zeszyty Geograficzne Wyzszej Szkoly Pedagogicznej w Gdansku 4 (1962)
Buczek, Karol, The History of Polish Cartography from the 15th to the 18th century, Cracow, 1963; Amsterdam: Meridian, 1982, 20-21
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.2
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), 1964, 48-50
Schnelbögl, Fritz, Dokumente zur Nürnberger Kartographie (Nürnberg: Selbstverlag der Stadtbibliothek, 1966), 44
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), 10, 11, 20, 24, 29-30, 32, 36, 34, 42, 46, 49, 51, 125,158, 161, 204, 209
Thrower, Norman J. W., Maps and Man. An Examination of Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization (Prentice Hall, 1972), 32-34
Heyken, Enno, "Die Ebstorfer Märtyrerlegende nach der Dresdener Handschrift des Chronicon Episcoporum Verdensium aus der Zeit um 1331," Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Bd. 46/47, Hildesheim, 1975, 1f
Hundt, Max, "Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte mit Bamberg und der Plassenburg," Fränkisches Land 1/62, Bamberg
Ruberg, Uwe, ‘Mappae Mundi des Mittelalters in Zusammenwirken von Text und Bild," in: Text und Bild: Aspekte des Zusammenwirkens zweier Künste in Mittelalter und früherNeuzeit, ed. Christel Meyer and Uwe Ruberg (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 1980), 550-92
Woodward, David, "Reality, Symbolism, Time, and Space in Medieval World Maps," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75 (1985), 510-21
Edgerton, Samuel Y., "From mental matrix to mappamundi to Christian Empire," in: Woodward, Davis (ed.), Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), 29
Hahn-Woernle, Brigit (ed.), Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Ebstorf: Kloster Ebstorf, 1987)
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 307-309
Schulz, Juergen, "Maps as Metaphors: Mural Maps Cycles of the Italian Renaissance," in David Woodward (ed.) Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), 112
Kugler, Hartmut (ed.), Ein Weltbild vor Columbus: Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte. Interdisziplinäres Colloquium vom 1-5 Juni 1988 in Kloster Ebstorf, Weinhein, 1990.
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), 6 (note 9)
Simek, Rudolf, Erde und Kosmos im Mittelatler. Das Weltbild vor Kolumbus (München: G. H. Beck, 1992), p. 111
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5. HENRY III
1236
not extant
Bibliography:
Tristram, Ernest William, English Medieval Wall Painting, 2 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1944-50), 2:180, 610.
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6. MATTHEW PARIS
ca. 1250
Flores Historiarum
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 26, p. 284
Reproductions:
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.58
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), il. 7
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:71
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 3.5:1000
Vaugham, Richard, Matthew Paris (Cambridge University Press, 1959), 235
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.2
Bevan W. L. and H. W. Phillot, Medieval geography. An essay in illustration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi (Amsterdam: Meridian, 1969), Introduction, description of maps nr 5 and 6
Walters, Gwyn, "Richard Gough’s Map Collecting for the British Topography 1780," The Map Collector 2 (March 1978), 27
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), 20
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7. MATTHEW PARIS
c. 1250
Flores Historiarum of Matthew Paris
London, British Library, Cotton MS. Nero D.V., fol. 1v
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XIX (XX?)
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:70
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 28
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.1
Bevan W. L. and H. W. Phillot, Medieval geography. An essay in illustration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi (Amsterdam: Meridian, 1969), Introduction, description of maps nr 5 and 6
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8. MATTHEW PARIS
ca. 1250
not extant
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:72
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 31
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9. ROBERT OF MELKELEY
ca. 1250
not extant
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:72
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 29
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10. ROBERT OF MELKELEY
ca. 1250
Waltham, not extant
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:72
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 30
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11. CONRAD DE BASLE
1265
not extant
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:151
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 32
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12. RICHARD DE BELLO
ca. 1290
Hereford Cathedral
Reproductions:
Ballard, 1831 (manuscript copy from the collection of the Royal Geographical Society; other copy is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, under Ge A. 649)
Jomard, Edme François, Les Monuments de la géographie ou recueil d’anciennes cartes publiées en fac-simile de la grandeur des originaux (Paris: Dupart et al., 1842-62), [1855]
Bevan, William Latham and Phillott, H. W. Medieval geography. An essay in illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi (London: E. Stanfort, 1873), frontispiece
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 4: I pl.
Keane, John, Evolution of Geography (London, 1899), fig. between p. 70 and 71
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.1:1077
Crone, Gerald Roe, The Hereford world map (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1948)
Tooley, R. V., Maps and mapmakers, 2n ed. (London: B.T. Batsford, 1952), pl. 97
Crone, Gerald Roe, The World Map by Richard of Haldingham in Hereford Cathedral. Reproductions of Early Manuscript Maps. 3. (London, 1954)
Libaulyt, André, Histoire de la cartographie (Paris: Chaix, 1959), fig. on p. 15
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.3, pl. XXIV
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXIV
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), fig. 2.3
Thrower, Norman J.W., Maps and Man. An Examination of Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization (Prentice Hall, 1972), fig. 4.4
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 6
Lister, Raymond, Old Maps and Globes (London: Bell & Hyman, 1979), 17
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXIV
Hodgkiss, A. G., Understanding maps. A systematic history of their use and development (Dawson, 1981), fig. 48
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.20 and 18.60
The Map Collector, Autumn 1989, No. 48, Cover Illustration, fig. on p. 4
Reproductions of details:
Bevan, William Latham and Phillott, H. W., Medieval geography. An essay in illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi (London: E. Stanfort, 1873); (Illes Brittaniques)
Wright, John Kirtland, The geographical lore of the times of the Crusades. A study in the history of medieval science and tradition in Western Europe (New York: American Geographical Society, 1925), 276-277
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXV (north-western Europe)
Wittkower, Rudolf, "Marvels of the East: A Study in the History of Monsters," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), pl. 43d ("Gigantes": two dog-headed men facing each other); pl. 46d (monsters); pl. 47d (Martikhora)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964),pl. XXV
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), fig. 2.4 (two humped camel in the land of Bactria)
Turco Greco, Carlos A., Los Mapas. Breve historia del mundo y su imagen (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1968), fig. 11
Thrower, Norman J.W., Maps and Man. An Examination of Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization (Prentice Hall, 1972), fig. 4.5 (upper part)
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th edition, Dawson, Archon Books, 1978, 1 (the middle section); 7 (the Iberian peninsula and southern France)
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister, Antique maps. A Collector’s Handbook, London & New York: Longman, 1983 (the British Isles and parts of France and Spain)
Plaut, Fred, "Where is Paradise? The Mapping of a Myth," The Map Collector, December 1984, No. 29, 2 (Paradise)
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 12.4 (Caesar’s edict)
Barber, Peter, "Visual Encyclopaedias: The Hereford and other Mappae Mundi," The Map Collector, Autumn 1989, No. 48, 3 (two details: England and Wales, and the Blemyae and the Psilli)
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), pl. 6 (eastern section)
Bibliography:
Gough, Richard, British topography, or an historical account of what has been dome for illustrating the topographical antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. (London: Payne T., and Son, 1780), vol I, 71-76
Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros y Sousa, 2e Vicomte de, Essai sur l’histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographie pendant le Moyen-Age et sur le progrès de la géographie après les grandes décuvertes du XVe siècle, 3 vols. (Paris: Maulde et Renou, 1849-52), vol. II, 288-434
Avezac, Armand d’, "Note sur la mappemonde historiée de la cathédrale d’Hereford, détermination de sa date et de ses sources," Bulletin de la Société de géographie, Paris, II (1861), 4 sér., 321-324
Bevan, William Latham and Phillott, H. W., Medieval geography. Anessay in illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi (London: E. Stanfort, 1873), (transcription of all names and legends)
Benedict, R. D., "The Hereford map and the legend of St Brandan," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, New York, XXIV (1892), 321-365
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 4: whole volume
Hallberg, Ivan, L’Extreme-Orient dans la littérature et lacartographie de l’Occident des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles (Göteborg: W. Zachrissons Boktryck, 1906); (nomenclature)
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931)
Wittkower, Rudolf, "Marvel of the East, a study in the history of monsters," Journal of the Warburg and Courtlauld Institute, London, 1942, 159-197
Crone, Gerald Roe, The Hereford world map (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1948)
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964) 48-50
Taylor, Eva Germaine Remington, "The Hereford map in facsimile," The Geographical Journal, London, CXX (1954), 221-223
Moir, A.L. and Letts, Malcolm, The world map in Hereford Cathedral (Hereford: Woolhope Club, 1955)
Crone, Gerald Roe, "New Light on the Hereford Map," Geographical Journal, 131 (1965), 447-462
Crone, Gerald Roe, "Is leigen fünff perg in welschen landt" and the Hereford Map, Erdkunde 21 (1967), 67-68
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), 10, 11, 23, 30, 32, 34-36, 42, 47, 51, 109, 113, 147, 186, 208
Thrower, Norman J. W., Maps and Man. An Examination of Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization (Prentice Hall, 1972), 32-34
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 6
Tooley, Ronald V., Maps and map-makers, 6th ed. (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd.), 1978, 49
Destombes, M. "Les mappemondes medievales; leur characteristiques et leur typologie,"in Monumenta cartographica vetustiores aevi I, 3-23
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister, Antique maps. A Collector’s Handbook (London & New York: Longman, 1983), 20-21
Schulz, Juergen, "Maps as Metaphors: Mural Maps Cycles of the Italian Renaissance," in David Woodward (ed.) Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), 112
Hahn-Woernle, Brigit (ed.), Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Ebstorf: Kloster Ebstorf, 1987), 32-34
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 309-312
Jancey, Meryl, Mappa Mundi. The map of the world in Hereford Cathedral. A brief guide (Hereford, 1987)
Morgan, N. J., Early Gothic Manuscripts 1250-1285. A Survey ofManuscripts illuminated in the British Isles. IV, vol. 2 (London, 1987), 195-200
Wiseman, Peter, "Julius Caesar and the Hereford World Map," History Today (November 1987), 53-57
Barber, Peter, "Visual Encyclopaedias: the Hereford and other Mappae Mundi," The Map Collector, Autumn 1989, No. 48, 2-8
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), 5-6; 17-18
Simek, Rudolf, Erde und Kosmos im Mittelatler. Das Weltbild vor Kolumbus (München: G. H. Beck, 1992), 111 and Appendix
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13. ALBERTUS MAGNUS
13th century
not extant
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:151
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14. EDWARD I INVENTORY
1299
not extant
Bibliography:
Otto Lehmann-Brockhaus, Lateinische Schriftquellen zur Kunst in England, Wales und Schottland vom Jahre 901 bis zum Jahre 1307, 5 vols. (Munich: Prestel, 1955-60), 3:no. 6261.
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15. WIESBADEN FRAGMENT
13th century
Wisebaden, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, MS. A.60
Reproductions of details:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964),pl. XXVI
Reproductions:
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXVI
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.64
Bibliography:
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 340 (no. 34)
Ruge, Walter, "Alteres kartographisches Material in deutschen Bibliotheken," Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, Göttingen, 1904-16; 1911, 35 (no. 1)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.4
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16. IBN SAID, Arabic world map
13th century
Oxford Bodleian Library
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXVI
Bibliography:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 55
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FOURTEENTH CENTURY
17. ROMANCE MAP
ca. 1337
not extant
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18. FRA PAOLINO
ca. 1320
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 1960, fol. 264v
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:132
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.3
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 69-70
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19. FRA PAOLINO
ca. 1320
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Lat. 4939, fol. 9
Reproductions:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XVI
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), il. 9
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:132
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.10
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 69-70
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), 27-30
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20. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, MS. 9347-48, fols. 162v-163
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXXIV, XXXV
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:132
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 63-4, 69-70, 144, 277
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.4
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 314
Campbell, Tony, chapter I in History of Cartography
Brincken, Anna-Dorothee van den, "Das geographische Weltbild um 1300," in Peter Moraw (ed.), Das geographische Weltbild um 1300. Politik im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Mythos und Fiktion (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989), 25
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21. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, MS. 9404-5, fols. 173v-174
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:132
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.5
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22. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 21.23, fols. 138v-139
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.6
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23. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
London, British Library, Egerton MS. 1500, fol. 3
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.7
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24. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
London, British Museum Library, Add. MS. 27376*, fols. 8v-9
Reproductions:
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.76, pl. 16
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
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25. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 190, fols. 203v-204
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:132
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.9
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26. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 1362A, fol. 2
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:132
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.11
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27. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Rome, Biblioteca Apostilica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 548, fols.138v-139
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.12
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28. PIETRO VESCONTE
ca. 1321
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 2972, fols. 112v-113
Bibliography:
(see: nr 20 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.13
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29. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
1329-39
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, not extant
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30. OPICINUS DE CANISTRIS
1335-36
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat, 1993
Reproductions:
Salomon, Richard Georg, Opicinus de Canistris: Weltbild und Bekenntnisse eines Avigninesischen Klerikers des 14. Jahrhunderts (London: Warburg Institute, 1936)
Salomon, Richard Georg, "A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Opicinus de Canistris," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 16 (1953), pls. 12 and 13
Salomon, Richard Georg, "Aftermath to Opicinus de Canistris," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25 (1962), pls. 26d and 27
Reproductions of details:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), fig. 76 (left-hand half)
Bibliography:
Salomon, Richard Georg, Opicinus de Canistris: Weltbold und Bekenntnisse eines Avigninesischen Klerikers des 14. Jahrhunderts (London: Warburg Institute, 1936)
Salomon, Richard Georg, "A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Opicinus de Canistris," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 16 (1953), 45-57
Salomon, Richard Georg, "Aftermath to Opicinus de Canistris," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25 (1962), 137-46
Arentzen, Jörg-Geerd, Imago Mundi Cartographica: Studien zur Bildlichkeit mittelatlerlicher Welt und Oekumenekarten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Zusammenwirkens von Text und Bild (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1984)
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31. OPICINUS DE CANISTRIS
1341
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 6435
Reproductions and Bibliography:
(see: nr 29 above)
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32. HIGDEN (A) oval
after 1342
[illustrationg the encyclopaedic Polychronicon written by the Chester monk Ranulf Higden]
London, British Library, Royal MS. 14.C.ix, fols. 1v-2r
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXI
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XIV
Plaut, Fred, "Where is Paradise? The Mapping of a Myth," The Map Collector, December 1984, No. 29, fig. on p. 3
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.67
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:95
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.2:1265
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.1
Taylor, John, The "Universal Chronicle" of Ranulf Higden (Oxford: Clarendon, 1966)
Galbraith, V. H., "An Authograph MS of Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon," Huntington Library Quarterly 34 (1959), 1- 18
Plaut, Fred, "Where is Paradise? The Mapping of a Myth," The Map Collector, December 1984, No. 29, 2-7
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 312-313
Barbier, Peter, "Visual Encyclopaedias: the Hereford and other Mappae Mundi," The Map Collector, Autumn 1989, No. 48, 7-8
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33. HIGDEN (B) oval
after 1342
London, British Library, Royal MS. 14.C.ix, fol. 2v
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXI
Washburn, Wilcomb E., Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference (Chicago University Press, 1971), pl. 2
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:96
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.2:1266
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.2
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34. HIGDEN (C) mandorla
after 1377
London, British Library, Royal MS. 14.C.xii, fol. 9v
Reproductions:
Washburn, Wilcomb E., Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference (Chicago University Press, 1971), pl. 1
Woodward, David (ed.), Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), pl.8 ?
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.22 and 18.69
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:97
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.2:1269
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.9
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35. HIGDEN (D) mandorla
after 1377
London, British Library, Add. MS. 10104, fol. 8
Bibliography:
(see nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.10
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36. HIGDEN (E) circular ?
14th century
London, Lambeth Palace, MS. 112, fol. 2v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.15
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37. HIGDEN (F) circular
1466
London, British Library, Harl. MS. 3673, fol. 84r
Reproductions:
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.68
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.3:1382
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.21
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38. HIGDEN (G) oval
ca. 1350
San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 132, fol. 4v
Reproductions:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XV
Woodward, David (ed.), Art and Cartography. Six HistoricalEssays, (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), pl. 8
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, pl. 15
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.3
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39. HIGDEN (H) oval
after 1347
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 170 (S.C. 9996), fol. 15v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.4
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40. HIGDEN (I) mandorla
14th century
Oxford, Magdalen College, MS. 190, fol. 1v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.8
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41. HIGDEN (J) oval
14th century
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS. 89, fol. 13v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:97
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.2:1267
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.13
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42. HIGDEN (K) mandorla
early 15th century
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 196 (S.C. 1797), fol. 195v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.17
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43. HIGDEN (L) mandorla
early 15th century
Warminster, Library of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, MS. 50, fol 7v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.5
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44. HIGDEN (M) circular
1367
Cambridge University Library, Add. MS. 3077, fol. 11
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:98
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.6
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45. HIGDEN (N) mandorla
14th century
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 21, fol. 9v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:97
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.12
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46. HIGDEN (O) oval
after 1367
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Lat. 4922, fol. 2
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:96
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.2:1268
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.7
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47. HIGDEN (P) circular
14th century
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Lat. Lat. 4126, fol. 1v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.3:1381
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.14
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48. HIGDEN (Q) truncated mandorla
14th century
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Adv. MS. 33.4.12, fol. 13v
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:97
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.11
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49. HIGDEN (R) mandorla
1400
Winchester College, MS. 15, fol. 13r
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:99
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.16
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50. HIGDEN (S) mandorla
15th century
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 731
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.18
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51. HIGDEN (T) circular
15th century
Glasgow University Library, MS. T 3.10, fol. 15r
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.19
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52. HIGDEN (U) circular
15th century
Lincoln, Cathedral Library, MS. A.4.17
Bibliography:
(see: nr 31 above)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 47.20
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53. AMBROGIO LORENZETTI
1344
Siena, not extant
Bibliography:
Aldo Cairola and Enzo Carli, Il Palazzo Pubblico di Siena (Rome: Editalia, 1963), 139-40.
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54. JOHANNES UTINENSIS
ca. 1350
Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Theol. Fol. 100 fol. 3v
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:146
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 36
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 51.29
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55. JOHANNES UTINENSIS
ca. 1350
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 721, fol. 3v
Bibliography:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 51.14
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56. SAINT-DENIS Chronicles
ca. 1370
Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, MS. 782, fol. 374v
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:136
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.2:1270
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 37
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 50.19
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57. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
1363-81
Heiligenkreutz, not extent
Bibliography:
Bagrow, Leo "Old inventories of Maps," Imago Mundi 5 (1948): 18-20.
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58. CATALAN ATLAS
[1375]
colored drawings on 6 parchment fols.
mounted on wood, total size 300 x 65 cm
Mallorca, 1375
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS. Esp. 30
Reproductions:
Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros y Sousa, 2e Vicomte de, Atlas composé de mappemondes et de cartes hydrographiques et historiques depuis le XIe jusqu’au XVIIe siècle . . . (Paris: Fain ae Thunot, 1842-53) [facsimile atlas] ii, 32-33
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXXVII-XXXIX
Freiesleben, H.-C., Der katalanische Weltatlas vom Jahre 1375 (Stuttgart, 1977)
Reproductions of details:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XL (the queen of Sheba; a junk and pearl-fishers in the Indian Ocean)
The Map Collector 3 (June 1978), 33
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the History of Cartography, 5th edition, Dawson, Archon Books, 1978, 21 (the eastern section, outline)
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, pl. 17 (western Europe), pl. 32, fig. 18.77
Bibliography:
Buchon, J. A. C. and J. Tastu, "Notice sur d’un atlas en langue catalane, 1375," Paris, 1839
Cordier, H., "L’Extrême-Orient dans l’Atlas Catalan de Charles V," Bulletin de géographie historique et descriptive, Paris, 1895
Buczek, Karol, The History of Polish Cartography from the 15th to the 18th century, Cracow, 1963; Amsterdam: Meridian, 1982, 22
Moritz, E., Die Entwicklung des Kartenbildes, 33-35
Lister, Raymond, Antique maps and their cartographers (Archon Books, 1970), 20
Yoeli, Pinhas, "Abraham and Yehuda Cresques and the Catalan Atlas," Cartographic Journal 7 (1970), 17-27
Freiesleben, H.-C. von, Der katalanische Weltatlas vom Jahre 1375 (Stuttgart, 1977)
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), chapter III
Grosjean, Georges (ed.), The Catalan Atlas of the Year 1375 (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf, 1978)
Lister, Raymond, Old Maps and Globes (London: Bell & Hyman, 1979), 18
Kretschmer, Konrad, in Lexikon zur Geschichte der Kartographie. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, 2 vols., (Vienna, 1986), 401f
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister, Antique maps. A Collector’s Handbook (London & New York: Longman, 1983), 4-6, 53
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 314-15
Nebenzahl, Kenneth, Der Kolumbus-Atlas. Karten aus d. Frühzeit d. Entdeckungsreisen (Braunschweig, 1990), 6f
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), 20-22
Wolff, Hans, "America - Early Images," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 17
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59. CATALAN FRAGMENT
ca. 1380
Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi, Kutuphané no. 1828 (old 2758, 49361)
Reproductions:
Destombes, Marcel, "Fragments of two medieval world maps at the Top Kapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 151- 152; (with an error in the legend, corrected in Imago Mundi, XIII (1956), 193
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXVII
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXVII
Bibliography:
Destombes, Marcel, "L’hémisphère austral en 1524; une carte de Pedro Reinel à Istanbul," Comptes rendus du Congrès international de géographie, Amsterdam, 1938 (Leiden, 1938), vol. II, sect. IV, 175-184
Destombes, Marcel, Cartes catalanes du XIVe siècle (Union géographique internationale. Rapport de la Commission pour la Bibliographie des cartes anciennes, fasc. I, 1952); no. 12, 62-63
Destombes, Marcel, "Fragments of two medieval world maps at the Top Kapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 151- 152
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.5
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FIFTEENTH CENTURY
60. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
1405
Bourges, not extant,
Bibliography:
Bagrow, Leo, "Old inventories of Maps," Imago Mundi 5 (1948): 18-20.
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61. MEDICIS ATLAS
15th century
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Gad. Rel. 9
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XXXVI
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62. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
1410-12
Library of Amplionus von Rotinck, not extant
Bibliography:
Bagrow, Leo, "Old inventories of Maps," Imago Mundi 5 (1948): 18-20.
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63. ALBERTIN DE VIRGA
ca. 1411-15
location unknown
Reproductions:
Wieser, Franz R. von, Die Weltkarte des Albertin de Virga aus dem Anfange des XV. Jahrhunderts in der Sammlung Figdom in Wien (Innsbruck: Heinrich Schurick, 1912); (original size)
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.3:1377 (original size)
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuisl’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), vol II (1935), pl. CXXXVIII
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXVIII
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXVIII
Bibliography:
Wieser, Franz R. von, Die Weltkarte des Albertin de Virga aus dem Anfange des XV. Jahrhunderts in der Sammlung Figdom in Wien (Innsbruck: Heinrich Schurick, 1912)
Almagià, Roberto, "Il mappomondo di Albertin de Virga," Rivistageographica italiana, Firenze, XXI (1914), 92-96
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 4.4:1468
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuisl’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), vol. II, 1935, 351-354
Kimble, George H.T., "The Laurentian world map with special reference to its portrayal of Africa," Imago Mundi, I (1935), 29-33
Winter, Heinrich, "The changing face of Scandinavia and the Baltic in cartography up to 1522," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 48-50 and fig, 2-5
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.6
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 70
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64. PIRRUS DE NOHA
1414?
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivo de San Pietro H.31, fol. 8r
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XLI
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.79, pl. 19
Bibliography:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 70
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65. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
1416
Duc de Berry (3 maps), not extint
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66. POMPONIUS MELA
1417
Reims, Bibliothèque de la Ville, MS. 1321, fol. 13
Reproductions:
Woodward, David (ed.), Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays, (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), pl. 7
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:138
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 38
Gisinger, F., "Pomponius Mela," in: A.F. von Pauly & Georg Wissowa, Real Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1952)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 51.27
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67. BORGIA MAP
ca. 1430
Rome, Biblioteca Apostilica Vaticana, Borgiano XVI (galerie)
Reproductions:
Keane, John, Evolution of Geography (London, 1899), fig. between pp. 80 and 81
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), III, 148 f
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXIX
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), fig. 11
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), fig. 2.12
Reproductions of details:
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.34 (cynocephali)
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:148
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 5:1493
Wittkower, Rudolf, "Marvels of the East: A Study in the History of Monsters," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), note 6 on p. 194
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 143
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 53.1
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 71-72
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), 23, 48-49, 103, 109, 186
Lister, Raymond, Antique Maps and their Cartographers (Archon Books, 1970), 20
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68. ANONYMOUS VENETIAN
15th century
Rome, Biblioteca Apostilica Vaticana, Borgiano V
Reproductions:
Almagià, Roberto, 1933, vo. I, pl. XIII-XV (original size) ?
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 143
Winter, Heinrich, "The Fra Mauro prtolan chart in the Vatican," Imago Mundi, XVI (1962), 17-28
Reproductions of details:
Pullé, Francesco Lorenzo, La cartografica antica dell’India (Firenze: Typ. G. Carnesecchi, 1901-1932), 1905: Asia
Almagià, Roberto, Monumenta cartografica Vaticana, vol. I (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944), frontispice (oriental Mediterranean, original size)
Winter, Heinrich, 1956 ?
Bibliography:
Zurla, Placido, Dei vantaggi della Cattoloca religione derivatialla geografia e scienze annesse dessertazione (Roma, 1822), 11
Pullé, Francesco Lorenzo, La cartografica antica dell’India (Firenze: Typ. G. Carnesecchi, 1901-1932), vol. II, Appendice, 1-47
Almagià, Roberto, Monumenta cartografica Vaticana, vol. I (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944), 32-41
Caraci, Giuseppe, 1950 ?
Caraci, Giuseppe, "The Italian cartographers of the Benincasa and Freducci families and so-called Borgiana map of the Vatican Library," Imago Mundi, X (1953), 23-45
Destombes, Marcel, "Fragments of two medieval world maps at the Top Kapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 151- 152
Winter 1956, 3-10 ?
Winter, Heinrich, "The Fra Mauro prtolan chart in the Vatican," Imago Mundi, XVI (1962), 17-28
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.15
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69. CATALAN (Estense)
15th century (ca. 1450-60 according to Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500, 217)
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, C.G.A. 1
Reproductions:
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, "Die katalanische Weltkarte der Biblioteca Estense zu Modena," Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Berlin, XXXII (1897), 65-111, 191-218; (coloured)
Pullé, Francesco Lorenzo, La cartografica antica dell’India (Firenze: Typ. G. Carnesecchi, 1901-1932), 1908 (original size)
Stevenson, Edward Luther, Marine chart of Nicolo de Canerio Januensis, 1502 (circa) (New York: American Geographical Society and Hispanic Society of America, 1908)
Kimble, George H.T., The Catalan world map of the R. Biblioteca Estense at Modena (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1934); (coloured, original size)
Kimble, George H.T., Geography in the Middle Ages (London: Methuen, 1938), pl. IX
Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia, Comune di Venezia. VII Centenariodella nascità di Marco Polo. Mostra ‘L’Asianella cartografia degli Occidentali’. Catalogo (Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954), pl. 6
Destombes, M., Fragments of two Medieval world maps at the Topkapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi 12 (1955), 150-152
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung der Welt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 140
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXXIII
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XLIII
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXIII
Dilke O. A. W. and Dilke Margaret, "The Catalan World Map at Modena," The Map Collector, Winter 1990, No. 53, fig. on p. 15
Reproductions of details:
Nansen, Fridtjof, In northern mists, 2 vols. (London, 1911), vol. II, 231 (north-western Europe)
La Roncière, Charles de, La découverte de l’Afrique au moyen- age. Cartographes et explorateurs, 3 vols. (La Caire, 1925-1927), vol. I, pl. X (north-western Africa)
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuisl’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), 1935, vol. II, pl. CXXXV (southern half)
Hermannsson, Halldor, The cartography of Iceland (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1931), pl. IV (nort-western part)
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 18-19 and 22-23 (Cathay)
Dilke O. A. W. and Dilke Margaret, "The Catalan World Map at Modena," The Map Collector, Winter 1990, No. 53, 17-18 (North and Central Africa); 18 (two details: the earthly Paradise and the British Isles and suroounding areas)
Bibliography:
Carbonieri, Luigi, Cennu storici della R. Biblioteca Estense (Modena, 1873), 71
Uzielli, Gustavo and Amat di Filippo, Pietro, Mappamondi, cartenautiche, portolani ed altre monumenti cartografici specialmente italiani dei secoli XIII-XVII, 2nd ed. (Roma: Societa geografica italiana, 1882), vol II, 100, no. 123
Fischer, Theobald, Sammlung mittelalterlicher Welt und Seekarten italienischen Ursprungs . . . (Venice: F.Ongania, 1886)
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, "Die katalanische Weltkarte der Biblioteca Estense zu Modena," Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Berlin, XXXII (1897), no. 50
Pullé, Francesco Lorenzo, La cartografica antica dell’India (Firenze: Typ. G. Carnesecchi, 1901-1932) 1905?
Pullé Francesco Lorenzo, "Illustrazione del mappamondo catalano della Biblioteca Estense de Modena," Atti del sesto Congresso geografico italiano (Venezia, 1908), vol. II. 341-397
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, Die italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters . . . (Berlin: E.S. Mitler und Sohn, 1909; reedition 1962), 140, no. 50
Nansen, Fridtjof, In northern mists, 2 vols. (London, 1911), vol. II, 230-231
Markham, C. R. (ed.), Knowlegde of all the kingdoms and lands. . . (London: Hakluyt Society), Vol. 29 (1912)
Björnbo, Alex Anton, Cartographica Groenlandica (Kobnhavn, 1912), 121
La Roncière, Charles de, La découverte de l’Afrique au moyen- age. Cartographes et explorateurs, 3 vols. (La Caire, 1925-1927), vol I, 118
Andrews, Michael Corbet, "The boundary between England and Scotland in the portolan charts," Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, ser. V, vol. XII (1926), 23
Andrews, Michael Corbet, "The British Isles in the nautical charts of the XIVth and XVth centuries," The Geographical Journal, London, LXVIII (1926), 474-480
Taylor, Eva Germaine Remington, "Pactolus, river of gold," Scottish Geographical Magazine, Edinburgh, XLIV (1928), 129-144
Hinks, Arthur Robert, The portolan chart of Angelino de Dalorto . . . (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1929), 8-9
Hermannsson, Halldor, The cartography of Iceland (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1931), 8
Mandeville, Sir J., Voiage, Oxford, 1932, 247 ?
Kimble, George H.T., The Catalan world map of the R. BibliotecaEstense at Modena (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1934)
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuisl’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), 1935, vol. II, 348-349
Kimble, George H.T., Geography in the Middle Ages (London: Methuen, 1938), 113, 183, 194-197
Reparaz, G. de, "L’activité maritime et commerciale du royaume d’Aragon au XVIIIe siècle et son influence sur le développment de l’école cartographique du Majorque," Bulletin Hispanique 49 (1947), 422-451
Reparaz, G. de, "Les sciences géographiques et astronomiques du XIVe siècle dans le nord-est de la péninsule Ibérique," Archives internationales d’histoire des sciences 3 (1948)
Crone, Gerald Roe, Maps and their makers, an introduction to the history of cartography (London: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1953), 47-49
Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia, Comune di Venezia. VII Centenariodella nascità di Marco Polo. Mostra ‘L’Asianella cartografia degli Occidentali’. Catalogo (Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954), 27, no. 17
Destombes, Marcel, "Fragments of two medieval world maps at the Top Kapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 150
Winter, Heinrich, "The changing face of Scandinavia and the Baltic in cartography up to 1522," Imago Mundi, XII(1955), 46
Destombes, M., Fragments of two Medieval world maps at the Topkapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi 12 (1955), 150-152
Crone, 1962, 47-49 ?
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 71, 72
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.12
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), Chapter III
Dilke O. A. W. and Dilke Margaret, "The Catalan Worls Map at Modena," The Map Collector, Winter 1990, No. 53, 15-19
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70. FRAGMENT, author unknown
15th century (ca. 1450 - Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500, 214)
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, James Ford Bell Collection
Reproductions of details:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXII
Bibliography:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.11
Parker, John, "A Fragment of a Fifteenth-Century Planisphere in the James Ford Bell Collection," Imago Mundi 19 (1965)
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71. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS
15th century
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Codex Helmstedt 422
(cat. 477)
Bibliography:
Uhden, Richard, "Zur Herkunft und Systematik der mittelalterlichen Weltkarten," Geographishe Zeitschrift 37 (1931), 39
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 51.39
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72. CIRCULAR WORLD MAP IN A PTOLEMAIC ATLAS
15th century
Zeitz, Stiftsbibiothek, MS. Lat. Hist., fol. 497, fol. 48
Reproductions:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XLVII
Bibliography:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.17
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73. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
15th century
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Salla dello Scudo, not extant
Bibliography:
Gallo, Rodolfo, "Le mappe geografiche del palazzo ducale di Venezia," Archivo Veneto, 5th ser., 32 (1943), 47-89
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 315
Schulz, Juergen, "Maps as Methaphors: Mural Map Cycles of the Italian Renaissance," in Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays, ed. David Woodward (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
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74. JAN van EYCK
15th century
not extant
Bibliography:
Sterling, Charles, "Le mappemonde de Jan an Eyck," Revue del’Art 33 (1976): 69-82.
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75. BATTISTA BECCARIO
1426
portolan chart
colored drawing on parchment
Genoa, 1426
86 x 66 cm
Reproductions:
Kemal, Y., Monumenta cartographiae Africae et Aegypti, vol. 4/4
Wolff, Hans, "The Munich Portolan Charts: Past and Present," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 128
Bibliography:
Kretschmer, Konrad, Die Entdeckung Amerikas in ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte des Weltbildes, 1892
Harrisse, Henry, The discovery of North America. A critical, documentary and historic investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New World (Paris, 1892; reprinted in 1961)
Ruge, Walter, Aelteres kartographisches Material in deutschenBibliotheken. 4. Bericht über die Jahre 1906-1909 (Göttingen, 1911)
Ruge, Walter, Aelteres kartographisches Material in deutschenBibliotheken. 5. Bericht über die Jahre 1910-1913 (Göttingen, 1916)
Hamy, Ernest T., L’oeuvre géographique des Reinel et la découverte des Moluques (Paris, 1891)
Stevenson, Edward L., Maps illustrating early discovery andexploitation in America, 1502-1530, vol. I: maps, 1903; Vol. 2: text (New York, 1906)
Stevenson, Edward L., "Martin Waldseemüller and the early Lusitano-Germanic cartography of the New World," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 36, no. 4 (1904), 193-215; reprint: Acta Cartographica 15 (1972), 315-317
Stevenson, Edward L., Marine chart of Nicolo de CanerioJanuensis (New York, 1908)
Kemal, Y., Monumenta cartographiae Africae et Aegypti, vol. 4/4
Kemal, Y., Epoque des portulans, suivies, par l’époque desdécouvertes (Cairo, 1939), 1453 f.
Wolff, Hans, "The Munich Portolan Charts: Past and Present," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel), 1992, 130
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76. ANDREA BIANCO
1436
Venice. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, MS. Fondo Ant. It. Z.76
Reproductions:
Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, Periplus, an essay on the early history of charts and sailing directions (Stockholm, 1897)
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), III, 143 ff.
Skelton R. A. et al., Vinland Map and the Tartar relation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1965), pl. VI
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), pl. 7 [after
Bibliography:
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:143
Wittkower, Rudolf, "Marvels of the East: A Study in the History of Monsters," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), note 6 on p. 194
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 54.16
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 70
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), 19-20
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77. VINLAND MAP
1440?
The manuscript consists of a map and text copied about 1440 by an unknown scribe, from lost earlier originals, into a manuscript of Vincent of Beauvois’ Speculum Historiale
New Haven. Beinecke Library, Yale University
Reproductions:
Skelton R. A. et al., Vinland Map and the Tartar relation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1965), facsimile following p. 17; pl. VII (names and legends keyed by numbers to the annotated list on pp. 128-141
Washburn, Wilcomb E., Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference (Chicago University Press), 1971 (after the table of contents)
Wallis, Helen, "The Vinland Map: fake, forgery or jeu d’esprit?" The Map Collector, Winter 1990, No. 53, 2-6
Reproductions of details:
The Map Collector 1 (Dec. 1977), 16 (section showing the island of ‘Vinlandia’)
Bibliography:
Skelton, R. A., Marston, Thomas E. and Painter, George D., The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1965)
Washburn, Wilcomb E., Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference (Chicago University Press, 1971)
Wallis, Helen et al., "The Strange Case of the Vinland Map: A Symposium," Geographical Journal 140 (1974): 183-214;
"That Vinland Map again," The Map Collector 1 (Dec. 1977), 16
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 43-44
Cahill, T. A. "The Vinland Map revisited: new compositional evidence on its ink and parchment," Analytical Chemistry 59 (1987), 829-833
McGhee, Robert, "The Vinland Map: hoax or history?" The Beaver 67 (2) April-May 1987, 37-44
McCrone, Walter C., "The Vinland Map," Analytical Chemistry 60 (1988), 1009-1018
Witten, Lawrence, "Vinland Saga recalled," Yale UniversityGazette 64 (1989), 10-37
Towe, Kenneth M., "The Vinland Map: Still a Forgery," Accounts of Chemical Research 23 (1990), 84-87
Wallis, Helen, "The Vinland Map: fake, forgery or jeu d’esprit?" The Map Collector, Winter 1990, No. 53, 2-6
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78. ANDREAS WALSPERGER
1448
colored drawing, diameter 57,5 cm (including border)
Rome, Biblioteca Apostilica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 1362b
Reproductions:
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, "Eine neue mittelalterische Weltkarte der Vatikanischen Bibliothek," Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, XXVI (1891), 371-406; (coloured, original size)
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, Die Entdeckung Amerikas in ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte des Weltbildes (Berlin: W. Kühl, 1892), pl. III, no. 14
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), III, 147 f
Almagià, Roberto, Monumenta cartografica Vaticana (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944), pl. XII
Durand, Dana Benett, The Vienna-Klosterneuburg map corpus of the fifteenth century (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1952), pl. XV (original size)
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXXI
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXI
Weltkarte des Andreas Walsperger, facsimile ed. and commentary, Zurich, 1981
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, pl. 21
Bibliography:
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, "Eine neue mittelalterische Weltkarte der Vatikanischen Bibliothek," Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, XXVI (1891), 371-406
Kretschmer, Konrad C. Heinrich, Die Entdeckung Amerikas in ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte des Weltbildes (Berlin: W. Kühl, 1892), 120
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:147
Hallberg, Ivan, L’Extreme-Orient dans la littérature et lacartographie de l’Occident des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles (Göteborg: W. Zachrissons Boktryck, 1906); nomenclature
Wittkower, Rudolf, "Marvels of the East: A Study in the History of Monsters," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), note 6 on p. 194
Almagià, Roberto, Monumenta cartografica Vaticana (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944) vol I, 30- 31
Durand, Dana Benett, The Vienna-Klosterneuburg map corpus of the fifteenth century (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1952), 209-213
Winter, Heinrich, "A circular map in a Ptolemaic MS.," Imago Mundi, X (1953), 15-22
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung der Welt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 147
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.10
Gallez, Paul, "Walsperger and His Knowledge of the Patagonian Giants, 1448," Imago Mundi 33 (1981), 91-93
Weltkarte des Andreas Walsperger, facsimile ed. and commentary, Zurich, 1981
Plaut, Fred, "Where is Paradise? The Mapping of a Myth," The Map Collector, December 1984, No. 29, 2-7
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 316
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79. GIOVANNI LEARDO
1442
Verona, Biblioteca Comunale
Reproductions:
Crivellari, Giuseppe, Alcuni cimeli della cartografia medievale e sistenti a Verona (Firenze: B. Seeber, 1903)
Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia, Comune di Venezia. VII Centenariodella nascità di Marco Polo. Mostra ‘L’Asianella cartografia degli Occidentali’. Catalogo (Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954), pl. 4
Eco 1961, Histoire illustre des inventios, 76
Bibliography:
Durazzo, P., Il planisfero di Giovanni Leardo (Mantua: Eredi Segna, 1885)
Crivellari, Giuseppe, Alcuni cimeli della cartografia medievaleesistenti a Verona (Firenze: B. Seeber, 1903)
Wright, John Kirtland, The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453, in the Collections of the American Geographical Society (New York: American Geographical Society, 1928)
Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia, Comune di Venezia. VII Centenario della nascità di Marco Polo. Mostra ‘L’Asianella cartografia degli Occidentali’. Catalogo (Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954) 17, no. 7
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.7
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 70-71
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 316-318
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80. FRA MAURO
1443
not extant
Bibliography:
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 72-73
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 314-316
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81. GIOVANNI LEARDO
1447
not extant
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82. GIOVANNI LEARDO
1448
Vicenza, Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana
Reproductions:
Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros y Sousa, 2e Vicomte de, Essai sur l’histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographie pendant le Moyen-Age et sur le progrès de la géographie après les grandes décuvertes du XVe siècle, 3 vols. (Paris: Maulde et Renou, 1849-52), vol. III, 398-442
Durazzo, P., Il planisfero di Giovanni Leardo (Mantova: Segua, 1885
Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, Periplus, an essay on the early history of charts and sailing directions (Stockholm, 1897)
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, pl. 20
Bibliography:
Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros y Sousa, 2e Vicomte de, Essai sur l’histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographie pendant le Moyen-Age et sur le progrès de la géographie après les grandes décuvertes du XVe siècle, 3 vols. (Paris: Maulde et Renou, 1849-52), vol. II, 398-442
Uzielli, Gustavo and Amat di Filippo, Pietro, Mappamondi, carte nautiche, portolani ed altre monumenti cartografici specialmente italiani dei secoli XIII-XVII, 2nd ed. (Roma: Societa geografica italiana, 1882), 72 no. 44
Durazzo, P., Il planisfero di Giovanni Leardo (Mantova: Segua, 1885)
Rainaud, Armand, Le continent austral, hypothèses et découvertes (Paris: A. Colin, 1893), 199
Miller, Konrad, Mappaemundi: Die ältesten Weltkarten, 6 vols. (Stuttgart: J. Roth, 1895-98), 3:145
Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, Periplus, an essay on the early history of charts and sailing directions (Stockholm, 1897), 61, 62, 116, 149
La Roncière, Charles de, La découverte de l’Afrique au moyen- age. Cartographes et explorateurs, 3 vols. (La Caire, 1925-1927); vol I, 159; vol. II, 115
Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia, Comune di Venezia. VII Centenario della nascità di Marco Polo. Mostra ‘L’Asianella cartografia degli Occidentali’. Catalogo (Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954), 18, no. 8
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 70-71
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.8
Teatro del cielo e della terra: Mappamondi, carte nautiche e atlanti della Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana dal XV al XVIII secolo: Catalogo della mostra (Vicenza: Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, 1984)
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 316-318
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83. FRA MAURO
1448-49
not extant
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84. GIOVANNI LEARDO
1452
Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, American Geographical Society Collection
Reproductions:
Raccolta di mappamondi e carte nautiche del XIII al XVI secolo (Venezia: Ferd. Ongania, 1880), vol. XIV (original size)
Stevenson, Edward Luther, Genoese world map, 1457 (New York: American Geographical Society and Hispanic Society of America, 1912), pl. 56
American Geographical Society 1928 (coloured, original size) The world encompassed: an exhibition of the history of maps (Baltimore, Md, Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1952), pl. V
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXX
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXX
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.40
The Map Collector, Spring 1990, No. 50, Cover Illustration
Reproductions of details:
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuisl’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), pl. CVIII (Africa and the Indian Ocean)
Bibliography:
Berchet, Guglielmo, "Il planisfero di Giovanni Leardo . . ." Raccolta di mappamondi e carte nautiche del XIII al XVI secolo (Venezia: Ferd. Ongania, 1880), pl. XIV
Uzielli, Gustavo and Amat di Filippo, Pietro, Mappamondi, carte nautiche, portolani ed altre monumenti cartografici specialmente italiani dei secoli XIII-XVII, 2nd ed. (Roma: Societa geografica italiana, 1882), 73, no. 46
Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, Periplus, an essay on the early history of charts and sailing directions (Stockholm, 1897), 61, 62, 116, 194
"The Leardo Map of 1452," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, New York, XXXVIII (1906), 365-368
Hallberg, Ivan, L’Extreme-Orient dans la littérature et la cartographie de l’Occident des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles (Göteborg: W. Zachrissons Boktryck, 1906); nomenclature
Stevenson, Edward Luther, Genoese world map, 1457 (New York: American Geographical Society and Hispanic Society of America, 1912), 56
Stevenson, Edward Luther, Descriptions of early maps, originals and facsilimes (1452-1611) (New York, 1921), 1, no. 1
La Roncière, Charles de, La découverte de l’Afrique au moyen- age. Cartographes et explorateurs, 3 vols. (La Caire, 1925-1927), vol I, 159; vol. II, 115
Wright, John Kirtland, The Leardo map of the world, 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American Geographical Society (New York, 1928)
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuis l’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), pl. CVIII; nomenclature
Ricci and Wilson 1937, vol. II, p. 1257
The world encompassed: an exhibition of the history of maps (Baltimore, Md, Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1952), no. 21
Gasparrini Leporace, Tullia, Comune di Venezia. VII Centenario della nascità di Marco Polo. Mostra ‘L’Asianella cartografia degli Occidentali’. Catalogo (Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954), 19, no. 9
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 70-71
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.9
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 316-318 [286-370?]
Deller, Howard and Harley J. B., "The World by Lake Michigan," The Map Collector, Spring 1990, No. 50, 6.
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85. GENOESE MAP
1457
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Port. 1
Reproductions:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXIV
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. D
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), fig. 2.8
Randles, W.G.L., De la terre plate au globe terrestre. Une mutation épistémologique rapide (1480-1520) (Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1980), pl. 7
Hahn-Woernle, Brigit (ed.), Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Ebstorf: Kloster Ebstorf, 1987), fig. 23
Reproductions of details:
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, fig. 18.23
Bibliography:
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 5:1495
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.13
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 72
George, Wilma, Animals and Maps (University of California Press, 1968), 46, 48, 49, 161, 186, 207
Lister, Raymond, Antique Maps and their Cartographers (Archon Books, 1970), 21
Hahn-Woernle, Brigit (ed.), Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Ebstorf: Kloster Ebstorf, 1987), 38
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86. FRA MAURO
1459
[To Portugal] not extant
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87. FRA MAURO
1459
colored drawing
196 x 193 cm
Murano, Venice, 1459
Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Reproductions:
Fac simile manuscrit by William Frazer for the East India Company, 1804 (British Museum, Add. MS 11767)
Zurla, Placido, 1806 ?
Kamal, Youssouf, Monumenta cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols. in 16 parts (Cairo, 1926-51), 5.1:1495-1496
Rosien, Walter, Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte (Hannover, 1952), pl. 25
Gasparini-Leporace, Tullia, Commune di Venezia. Settimo centenario della nascità di Marco Polo 1254-1956. Il Mappamondo de Fra Mauro . . .. Catalogo (Roma: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956) [colour facsimile]
Leithäuser, Joachim G.,Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung der Welt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 159
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXX
Turcos Grecos, Carlos A., Los Mapas. Breve historia del mundo y su imagen (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1968), fig. 15
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. XLII
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 2627
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, pl. 18
Schulz, Juergen, "Maps as Metaphors: Mural Maps Cycles of the Italian Renaissance," in David Woodward (ed.) Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), fig. 3.13
Wolff, Hans, "America - Early Images," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 20
Reproductions of details:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXV
Skelton, Raleigh A., Explorers’ Maps. Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958), figs. 5 and 6 (the Far East); fig. 14 (Africa)
Bibliography:
Mittarelli 1799, coll. 756-760 ?
Zurla, Placido, Il mappamundo di Fra Mauro camaldolese (Venezia, 1808)
Zurla, Placido, Sulle antiche mappe idrogeografiche lavorate inVenezia (Venezia, 1818)
Sierakowski, Józef, Sul famoso mappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese del secolo decimo quinto: lettera del Signor . . . al Signor Consigliere Giuseppe de Hammer in Vienna, 1830
Santarem, Manuel Francisco de Barros y Sousa de Vicomte de, "Note sur la mappemonde du cosmographe Fra Mauro," Bulletin de la Société de Géographe, Paris, 3e sér., V (1846), 251-252
Omboni, T., "Ricerche sui mappamondi de Fra Mauro," L’Esploratore, Milano, IV (1879), 4-8
Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, Periplus, an essay on the early history of charts and sailing directions (Stockholm, 1897), 140-141
Hallberg, Ivan, L’Extreme-Orient dans la littérature et la cartographie de l’Occident des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles (Göteborg: W. Zachrissons Boktryck, 1906), nomenclature
La Roncière, Charles de, La découverte de l’Afrique au moyen- age. Cartographes et explorateurs, 3 vols. (La Caire, 1925-1927), 1926, vol. II, 122-136
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuis l’antiquité (Le Caire, 1929-52), vol. I, 374-387
Cerulli, Enrico, "Fonti arabe del mappamondo di Fra Mauro," Orientalia commentarii periodici Pontifici Instituti Biblici, Roma, nova series, IV (1935), 336-338
Hennig, Richard, Terrae incognitae, 4 vols. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1938-1950), IV, 36-46, 165-167, 383
Almagia, R., "I mappamondi di Enrico Martellus," La Bibliofilia 42 (Florence, 1940), 289-311
Crino, S., R. Biasutti and A. Magnaghi, "Como fu scoperta l’America," Rev. geogr. italiana 49 (1942), 35-54
Winter, H., "Die angebliche Toscanelli-Karte," KolonialeRundschau 33 (1942), 228-238
Almagia, R. (ed.), Monumenta cartographica Vaticana, Citta del Vaticano, 1944, I, 32ff.
Crone, Gerald Roe, "Fra Mauro’s representation of the Indian Ocean and the Eastren Islands," Comitato cittadino per la celebrazione Colombiane. V Centenario della nascità deCristoforo Colombo. Convegno internazionale di studi colombiani (Genova, 1952), vol. III, 57-64
Crone, Gerald Roe, Maps and their makers, an introduction to the history opf cartography (London: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1953), 54-64
Gasparini Leporace, Tullia, Commune di Venezia. Settimo centenario della nascità di Marco Polo 1254-1956. Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro . . .. Catalogo, Introduction to colour facsimile (Roma: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956)
Almagià, Roberto, Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro, fascimile ed. (Rome, 1956)
Leithäuser, Joachim G., Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 58
Buczek, Karol, The History of Polish Cartography from the 15th to the 18th century, Cracow, 1963; Amsterdam: Meridian, 1982, 21
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), 72-73
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.14
Skelton, Raleigh A., Explorers’ Maps. Chapters in theCartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958), 14, 21, 44
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), Chapter IV
Lister, Raymond, Antique maps and their cartographers (Archon Books, 1970), 19
Hodgkiss, A. G., Understanding maps. A systematic history oftheir use and development (Dawson, 1981), 78-80
Plaut, Fred, "Where is Paradise? The Mapping of a Myth," The Map Collector, December 1984, No. 29, 2-7
Wawrik, Franz, in Lexikon zeu Geschichte der Kartographie. Vonden Anfängen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, 2 vols. (Vienna. 1986), 230 f
Harley J. B. and Woodward, David, The History of Cartography, 6 vols. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. I, 315-316
Schulz, Juergen, "Maps as Metaphors: Mural Maps Cycles of the Italian Renaissance," in David Woodward (ed.), Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1987), 113-117
Barbier, Peter, "Visual Encyclopaedias" the Hereford and other Mappae Mundi," The Map Collector, Autumn 1989, No. 48, 7
Nebenzahl, Kenneth, Der Kolumbus-Atlas. Karten aus d. Frühzeitd. Entdeckungsreisen (Braunschweig, 1990), 6f, 12 f
Wolff, Hans, "America - Early Images," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 19
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88. ANONYMOUS, VENETIAN, fragment
ca. 1460
Istanbul Top Kapu Saray Kutuphane: n. 1827 (old n. 2757 and 49.360)
Reproductions of details:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXVI
Reproductions:
Hakki, Ibrahim, Topkapi Sarayinda: Deri Uzerine yapilnis. EskiHaritalar (Istanbul: Ulkü Basimevi, 1936), pl. 4
Destombes, Marcel, "Fragments of two medieval world maps at the Top Kapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 150 (with an error in the legend corrected in Imago Mundi, XIII (1956), 193)
Bibliography:
Hakki, Ibrahim, Topkapi Sarayinda: Deri Uzerine yapilnis. EskiHaritalar (Istanbul: Ulkü Basimevi, 1936), 193-240
Destombes, Marcel, "L’hémisphère austral en 1524; une carte de Pedro Reinel à Istanbul," Comptes rendus du Congrès international de géographie, Amsterdam, 1938 (Leiden, 1938), vol. II, sect. IV, 175-184
Destombes, Marcel, "Fragments of two medieval world maps at the Top Kapu Saray Library," Imago Mundi, XII (1955), 151- 152
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.16
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89. HENRICUS MARTELLUS GERMANUS
ca. 1490
British Library, Ms. Add. 15760
New Haven (Connecticut), Yale University Library
Reproductions:
Skelton, R. A., Looking at an Early Map. The Annual Public Lecture on Books and Bibliography given at the University of Kansas in October 1962 (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Libraries, 1964), fig. 3
Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 37, no. 1 (July 1962)
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXVII
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. LIII
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 37 (outline)
Randles, W.G.L., De la terre plate au globe terrestre. Une mutation épistémologique rapide (1480-1520) (Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1980), pl. 8
Wolff, Hans, "The Conception of the World on the Eve of the Discovery of America - Introduction," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 14
Reproductions of details:
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), pl. XXXVIII
Skelton, Raleigh A., Explorers’ Maps. Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958), fig. 18 (Africa); fig. 104 (Eastern Asia)
Bibliography:
Ravenstein, Ernest George, Martin Behaim, his life and his globe (London: G. Philip and Son, 1908), 64
Heawood, Edward, "A hitherto unknown world map of A.D. 1506," The Geographical Journal, London, LXII (1923), 289
Nunn 1937, 29-30 ?
Crino, Sebastiano, "I Planisferi di Francesco Roselli," LaBibliofilia, Firenze, XLI (1939), 381-405
Almagià, Roberto, "I mappamondi di Enrico Martello e alcuni concetti geografici di Cristoforo Colombo," La Bibliofolia, Firenze, XLII (1940), 24-27
Almagià, Roberto, "On the cartographic work of Francesco Roselli," Imago Mundi, VIII (1951), 27-35
Nunn 1952, 14 ?
Destombes, Marcel, Cartes catalanes du XIVe siècle (Union géographique internationale. Rapport de la Commission pour la Bibliographie des cartes anciennes, fasc. I, 1952); no. 12, 88-89
Crone, Gerald Roe, Maps and their makers, an introduction to the history of cartography (London: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1953), 64
Leithäuser, Joachim G., Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 179
Skelton, Raleigh A. "The cartographic record of the discovery of North America: some problems and paradoxes," Congresso internacional de historia dos descobrimentos. Actas (Lisboa, 1960), vol. II, 343-363
Vietor, Alexander O. "A pre-Columbian map of the world circa 1489," Yale University Library Gazette, New Haven, XXXVII (1962), 8-12
Monumenta Cartographica Vetustioris Aevi, pl. XXXVII-XXXVIII
Skelton, R. A., Looking at an Early Map. The Annual Public Lecture on Books and Bibliography given at the University of Kansas in October 1962), Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Libraries, 1964, 21
Skelton, Raleigh A., Explorers’ Maps. Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958), 44, 177
Destombes, Marcel, ed., Mappemondes A.D. 1200-1500. Catalogue
prépare par la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l’Union Géographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), 52.17
Caraci, Ilaria L., "L’opera cartografica di Enrico Martello e la ‘prescoperto’ dell’America," Rivista Geografica Italiana 83 (1976), Florence, 335-344
Davies, A., "Behaim, Martellus and Columbus," The Geographical Journal 143 (1977), 451-459
Caraci, Ilaria L., "Il planisfero di Enrico Martello della Yale University Library e i fratelli Colombo," Rivista Geografica Italiana 85 (1978), Florence, 132-143
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), Chapter V
Flint, Valerie, I. J., The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton University Press, 1992), note on p. 37, 39
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90. JUAN DE LA COSA
1500
coroder drawing on parchment
ca. 180 x 96 cm
Madrid, Museo Naval
Reproductions:
Grecos Turcos, Carlos A., Los Mapas. Breve historia del mundo y su imagen (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1968), fig. 25
Raisz, Erwin, Mapping the world, New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1956, fig. 21 A (drawing)
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography (Cambridge, Mssachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964), pl. LVI
Schwartz, Seymour J. and Ralph E. Ehrenberg, The mapping of North America (New York, 1980), fig. 1
La Roncière, Monique and Michel Mollat du Jourdin, Portulane. Seekarten vom 13. bis zum 17. Jh. (Munich, 1984), pl. 2
Nebenzahl, Kenneth, Der Kolumbus-Atlas. Karten aus d. Frühzeitd. Entdeckungsreisen (Braunschweig, 1990), pl. 10
Wolff, Hans, "America - Early Images," in Wolff, Hans (ed.), America. Early Maps of the New World (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 44-45
Reproductions of details:
Skelton, R. A., Looking at an Early Map. The Annual Public Lecture on Books and Bibliography given at the University of Kansas in October 1962 (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Libraries, 1964), fig. 4
Tooley, Ronald V., "The Strait that never was. The first of a series on geographical misconceptions," The Map Collector 2 (March 1978), 3 (a large potrrait of Columbus dressed as Saint Christopher)
Bibliography:
Harisse, Henry, The discovery of North America. A critical, documentary and historic investigation, with an essay on the early cartography of the New World (Paris, 1892), 412 ff.
Nunn, Georde E., The Mappemonde of Juan de Cosa, Jenkintown, 1934
Leithäuser, Joachim G., Mappae mundi, die geistige Eroberung derWelt (Berlin: Safari-Verlag, 1958), 199
Hoffman, B. G., Cabot to Cartier (Toronto, 1961), 87-97
Skelton, R. A., Looking at an Early Map. The Annual Public Lecture on Books and Bibliography given at the University of Kansas in October 1962 (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Libraries, 1964), 1961, 1617
Klemp, Egon, America in maps dating from 1500 to 1856 (New York, 1976), no. 1
Crone, Gerald R., Maps and their Makers. An Introduction to the history of Cartography, 5th ed. (Dawson, Archon Books, 1978), 48
Hodgkiss, A. G., Understanding maps. A systematic history oftheir use and development (Dawson, 1981), 80-82
La Roncière, Monique and Michel Mollat du Jourdin, Portulane. Seekarten vom 13. bis zum 17. Jh. (Munich, 1984), 211ff
L. Martin Meras in Lexikon zeu Geschichte der Kartographie. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, 2 vols. (Vienna, 1986), 147
Nebenzahl, Kenneth, Der Kolumbus-Atlas. Karten aus d. Frühzeitd. Entdeckungsreisen (Braunschweig, 1990), 30, pl. 10
Klemp, Egon in Konrad Kretschmer, Die historischen Karten zurEntdeckung Amerikas. Atlas nach Konrad Kretschmer, revised repr. of the orig. from 1892 (Frankfurt am Main, 1991), 29, references, p. 49
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