Collection items

13th century zonal world map

Map Created date: 13th century

This 13th-century world map, though only 8 centimetres across, is more than a simple diagram. The southern (upper) hemis...

A portolan chart by Petrus Rosselli

Map Created date: 1465

Rosselli was perhaps Italian in origin, but it was in Majorca that he produced his portolan charts in the mid-15th centu...

A portolan chart of Europe by Grazioso Benincasa

Map Created date: 1470

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 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 Atlantic coastline by Grazioso Beninc...

Map Created date: 1469

In the 15th century portolan charts were often drawn in sections and bound to form a small atlas. This example, drawn by...

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...

Circular plan of Jerusalem

Map Created date: 13th century

Most medieval plans of Jerusalem give it circular walls (it was actually four-sided) and were probably of classical orig...

Diagrammatic world map

Map Created date: 1075

The simplest medieval map of the world was the T-O map: a circle divided by a T into the three continents of Asia, Europ...

Luxemburgem

Map, Image Created date: 1684

The map is from the Beudeker Collection, comprising 24 volumes of maps and views of the Netherlands, 1660-1756 compiled...

Map in the margin of Dati, The Sphere

Map Created date: 1470

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

Map of Britain by Matthew Paris, Royal MS 14 C. VI...

Map Created date: mid-13th century

This map 13th century map by Matthew Paris from the Royal manuscripts collection, is one of four early maps of Britain c...

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...

Matthew Paris's itinerary maps from London to Pale...

Map Created date: c. 1250

This map of Palestine from the Royal manuscripts collection was created by Matthew Paris in mid-13th-century, and is dom...

Plan of springs at Wormley in Hertfordshire

Map

This plan, from the Harley manuscripts collection, shows a plan of the springs at Wormley, Hertfordshire, from which Wal...