Collection items

Islamic map of the western Mediterranean

Map Created date: 14th century

This page from a Persian copy of a 10th-century atlas in the British Library's India Office collections is typical of Is...

The Gough map

Map, Parchment, Watercolour, Pen and ink Created date: 1370s-late 15th century

The Gough Map of the British Isles, acquired by Richard Gough in 1774 from the collections of the antiquarian Thomas Ma...