Index of Cartographic Images
Illustrating Maps of the
Late Medieval Period
1300 - 1500 A.D.
Time Chart of Medieval Cartography
Slide # |
Title: |
Cartographer: |
Date: |
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The Countries of the Southwestern Sea Southern Africa |
Chu Ssu-Pen/Lo Hung-hsien |
1320-1555 | |
Vesconte world map |
Pietro Vesconte |
ca. 1320 | |
Vesconte world map |
Pietro Vesconte |
1320 | |
Vesconte world map |
Pietro Vesconte |
1320 | |
World Map from Marino Sanudo's Liber secretorum fidelium crucis |
Pietro Vesconte |
ca. 1321 | |
world map |
Opicinus de Canistris |
ca. 1296-1300 | |
world map |
Opicinus de Canistris |
ca. 1341 | |
world map |
Opicinus de Canistris |
ca. 1335 | |
Europa prima pars terra in forma virginis |
ca. 1335 | ||
world map |
Opicinus de Canistris |
ca. 1335 | |
world map |
Ranulf Higden |
ca. 1350 | |
world map |
Ranulf Higden |
ca. 1350 | |
Polychronicon, detail: eastern Mediterranean, Far East |
Ranulf Higden |
ca. 1342 | |
Polychronicon |
Ranulf Higden |
ca. 1350 | |
Laurentian Sea Atlas, Medicean Atlas |
unknown |
1351 | |
Saint-Denis Chonicles |
unknown |
(ca. 1370) | |
235 |
Abraham Cresques (?) |
(1375) | |
Catalan Atlas, detail, |
Abraham Cresques (?) |
(1375) | |
Catalan Atlas, detail, Asia |
Abraham Cresques (?) |
(1375) | |
Catalan Atlas, detail, Asia |
Abraham Cresques (?) |
(1375) | |
Catalan Atlas, detail, Asia |
Abraham Cresques (?) |
modern | |
Kangnido link |
Ch'üan Chin and Li Hui |
1402 | |
Yoktae chewang honil kangnido |
Ch'üan Chin and Li Hui |
1402 | |
Yoktae chewang honil kangnido, detail, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia |
Ch'üan Chin and Li Hui |
1402 | |
Borgia Map |
unknown |
ca. 1430 | |
Borgia Map, detail, Russia/Asia |
unknown |
ca. 1430 | |
Imago Mundi |
Pierre d'Ailly |
1410 | |
Imago Mundi |
Pierre d'Ailly |
1483 | |
world map |
Pirrus de Noha |
1414 (?) | |
world map |
Albertin de Virga |
ca, 1411-15 | |
world map, detail: map |
Albertin de Virga |
ca, 1411-15 | |
world map |
Andrea Bianco |
1432 | |
Mapa Mondi Figura Mondi |
Giovanni Leardo |
1442 | |
Mapa Mondi Figura Mondi |
Giovanni Leardo |
1442 | |
world map |
Giovanni Leardo |
1448 | |
world map |
Giovanni Leardo |
1452-3 | |
The Vinland Map |
unknown |
1440 ? | |
The Vinland Map, detail: Europe/Africa |
unknown |
(1440 ?) | |
The Vinland Map (reverse outline) |
unknown |
modern | |
world map |
Andreas Walsperger |
1448 | |
Catalan-Estense Map |
unknown |
1450-60 | |
246 |
Catalan-Estense Map |
unknown |
1450-60 |
Catalan-Estense Map, detail: Europe and Africa |
unknown |
1450-60 | |
Comparison of Medieval Mappaemundi |
modern | ||
The Genoese World Map |
unknown |
1457 | |
Fra Mauro's World Map |
Fra Mauro/ Andrea Bianco |
1459 | |
Fra Mauro's Map, detail: China |
Fra Mauro/ Andrea Bianco |
1459 | |
Toscanelli's Chart (reconstruction) |
(Paolo Toscanelli) |
(1474) modern | |
Anonymous world map |
unknown |
ca. 1485 | |
world map |
Henricus Martellus |
1489 | |
Martellus, outline |
Henricus Martellus |
modern | |
The Christopher Columbus Chart |
Christopher Columbus ? |
1490 | |
The Christopher Columbus Chart", detail world map |
Christopher Columbus ? |
1490 | |
The Christopher Columbus Chart, detail: Africa |
Christopher Columbus ? |
1490 | |
The Christopher Columbus Chart, outline |
Christopher Columbus ? |
modern | |
Behaim's Globe |
Martin Behaim |
1492 | |
Behaim's Globe, overlaid on modern world |
unknown |
modern | |
The Laon Globe |
unknown |
(1493) | |
Liber chronicarum Secunda etas Mundi |
Hartmann Schedel |
1493 | |
Liber chronicarum characters |
Hartmann Schedel |
1493 | |
Tractatus de Sphaera Mundi |
Johannes de Sacrobosco |
1300-1500 |