Wednesday, March 7, 2012

World Map 14th Century

Description: The Catalan Atlas produced in 1375 by the Majorcan cartographers Abraham and Jehuda Cresques is the most important Catalan world map of the Middle Ages. The world map originally consisted of various leaves.


 Europe


                                                                             Middle East


                                                                             East Asia


Description: World map made around 1420 by the Italian cartographer Pietro Vesconte.


Description: World map from the English chronicler and Benedictine monk Ranulf Higdon, published in the late 14th century.


Description: The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a world map dating to ca. 1300, derived from the T and O maps and the largest known medieval map


                                                          Detail showing the British Isles

 

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