Index of Cartographic Images
Illustrating Maps of the
Late Medieval Period
1300 - 1500 A.D.

Time Chart of Medieval Cartography

 

Slide #

Title:

Cartographer:

Date:

227.A

The Countries of the Southwestern Sea Southern Africa

Chu Ssu-Pen/Lo Hung-hsien

1320-1555

228A

Vesconte world map

Pietro Vesconte

ca. 1320

228C

Vesconte world map

Pietro Vesconte

1320

228D

Vesconte world map
(re-oriented with North at the top)

Pietro Vesconte

1320

228F

World Map from Marino Sanudo's Liber secretorum fidelium crucis

Pietro Vesconte

ca. 1321

230

world map

Opicinus de Canistris

ca. 1296-1300

230A

world map

Opicinus de Canistris

ca. 1341

230B

world map

Opicinus de Canistris

ca. 1335

230B1

Europa prima pars terra in forma virginis

ca. 1335

230C

world map

Opicinus de Canistris

ca. 1335

232

world map

Ranulf Higden

ca. 1350

232.A

world map

Ranulf Higden

ca. 1350

232.1A

Polychronicon, detail: eastern Mediterranean, Far East

Ranulf Higden

ca. 1342

232.2

Polychronicon

Ranulf Higden

ca. 1350

233

Laurentian Sea Atlas, Medicean Atlas

unknown

1351

234

Saint-Denis Chonicles

unknown

(ca. 1370)

235

The Catalan Atlas, 14th century. (BNF, ESP 30)

Abraham Cresques (?)

(1375)

235B

Catalan Atlas, detail,
Europe/North Africa

Abraham Cresques (?)

(1375)

235D

Catalan Atlas, detail, Asia

Abraham Cresques (?)

(1375)

235E

Catalan Atlas, detail, Asia

Abraham Cresques (?)

(1375)

235J

Catalan Atlas, detail, Asia

Abraham Cresques (?)

modern

236

Kangnido link

Ch'üan Chin and Li Hui

1402

236.A

Yoktae chewang honil kangnido

Ch'üan Chin and Li Hui

1402

236.B

Yoktae chewang honil kangnido, detail, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia

Ch'üan Chin and Li Hui

1402

237

Borgia Map

unknown

ca. 1430

237B

Borgia Map, detail, Russia/Asia

unknown

ca. 1430

238

Imago Mundi

Pierre d'Ailly

1410

238A

Imago Mundi

Pierre d'Ailly

1483

239

world map

Pirrus de Noha

1414 (?)

240

world map

Albertin de Virga

ca, 1411-15

240A

world map, detail: map

Albertin de Virga

ca, 1411-15

241

world map

Andrea Bianco

1432

242

Mapa Mondi Figura Mondi

Giovanni Leardo

1442

242A

Mapa Mondi Figura Mondi

Giovanni Leardo

1442

242C

world map

Giovanni Leardo

1448

242D

world map

Giovanni Leardo

1452-3

243

The Vinland Map

unknown

1440 ?

243A

The Vinland Map, detail: Europe/Africa

unknown

(1440 ?)

243C

The Vinland Map (reverse outline)

unknown

modern

245

world map

Andreas Walsperger

1448

246

Catalan-Estense Map

unknown

1450-60

246

Catalan-Estense Map

unknown

1450-60

246A

Catalan-Estense Map, detail: Europe and Africa

unknown

1450-60

247

Comparison of Medieval Mappaemundi

modern

248

The Genoese World Map

unknown

1457

249

Fra Mauro's World Map

Fra Mauro/ Andrea Bianco

1459

249B

Fra Mauro's Map, detail: China

Fra Mauro/ Andrea Bianco

1459

252

Toscanelli's Chart (reconstruction)

(Paolo Toscanelli)

(1474) modern

255

Anonymous world map

unknown

ca. 1485

256

world map

Henricus Martellus

1489

256B

Martellus, outline

Henricus Martellus

modern

257

The Christopher Columbus Chart

Christopher Columbus ?

1490

257A

The Christopher Columbus Chart", detail world map

Christopher Columbus ?

1490

257B

The Christopher Columbus Chart, detail: Africa

Christopher Columbus ?

1490

257C

The Christopher Columbus Chart, outline

Christopher Columbus ?

modern

258

Behaim's Globe

Martin Behaim

1492

258E

Behaim's Globe, overlaid on modern world

unknown

modern

259

The Laon Globe

unknown

(1493)

260

Liber chronicarum Secunda etas Mundi
(Nuremberg Chronicle)

Hartmann Schedel

1493

260A

Liber chronicarum characters

Hartmann Schedel

1493

261

Tractatus de Sphaera Mundi

Johannes de Sacrobosco

1300-1500

 

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