Collection items

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...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th century

A circular diagram, now known as ‘Microcosmic Man’ or ‘Zodiac man’, appears in this miscellany of astrological and medic...

Manuscript Created date: 1460–1500

The religious order of monks and nuns known as the Carthusians were founded by St Bruno of Cologne (d. 1104) in 1084. Th...

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...

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...

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th century

With pages measuring over half a metre (two feet) tall, this volume is the largest manuscript Bible within the British L...

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...

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