Collection items

An anonymous map of Italy

Map Created date: 15th century

In the 15th century several maps were drawn of the whole of Italy, by then the most map-conscious part of Europe. The ou...

Chart of the Aegean from the Cornaro atlas

Map Created date: 15th century

An atlas made for the Cornaro family of Venice at the end of the 15th century contains 35 portolan charts by various Ven...

Chart of the central Mediterranean by Giacomo Giro...

Map Created date: mid-15th century

This portion of a mid-15th-century chart by the Venetian Giacomo Giroldi shows the Adriatic with parts of Italy. South i...

Map of Scotland by John Harding

Map Created date: mid-15th century

John Harding's history of England down to the mid-15th century was written primarily to demonstrate the English king's r...

Map of the Bay of Bengal from Ptolemy's Geography

Map Created date: 15th century

This map from the Harley manuscripts collection shows the Bay of Bengal from a manuscript of Ptolemy's Geography, has th...

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...