Collection items

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa

Map

This chart of Europe was drawn by Grazioso Benincasa at Ancona in 1470. It illustrates the detailed complexity of late p...

An anonymous map of Italy

Map

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

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

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

Map in the margin of Dati, The Sphere

Map

Manuscripts of The Sphere, a poem in Italian by Gregorio Dati (1362-1435) or his brother Leonardo, are decorated with ma...

Map of Scotland by John Harding

Map

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

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