Mapping the World Before Mercator (2021)
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This large (52 in. x 23 in.) woodcut from the 1470s or early 1480s attributed to Francesco Rossselli depicts the entire city of Florence and the Arno…
This is a facsimile of a rare colored version of a black and white woodcut map that highlights routes to travel from central European countries to…
The map displays Europe, Africa, and Asia and is oriented with south at the top of the page. It marks Christian cities with red dots, and all other…
With 62 sheets on Venetian paper stained with black splotches throughout, the Khalili Portolan Atlas combines minimalist portolan charts depicting the…
This 15th-century map combines a portolan chart and a world map. Anonymous and not precisely dated, the map is separated into two distinct spaces,…
The surviving vellum manuscript known as the “Queen Mary Atlas'' consists of 24 pages each the size of a small coffee table (580 by 500 mm), including…
The True Description of Cairo is a remarkable 2 meter by 1 meter woodcut attributed to Matheo Pagano and printed in 1549. The view focuses on the…
Le Sphaerae Coelestis et Planetarum [The Spheres of the Heavens and the Planets], also referred to as De Sphaera, is one of the most elaborate…
This page depicts views of the German cities of Halle and Hidelsheim. It comes from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a multi-volume 16th-century atlas of…
The Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum by Cornelis van Wytfliet is the only regional atlas published during the first hundred years of atlas…