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Introduction (Original: 1985 - Last updated 22 March 2024, 95 pages)
Monographs:
201.1 Map from Anonymous Astrological Miscellany, 3rd century
202 Cosmas Indicopleustes’ world picture, 6th century
203 Anonymous Geographer from Ravenna
204 Map of the “Inhabited Quarter”
205 Isidore of Seville’s tripartite world (T-O) maps, including the following:
Paulus
Orosius, the Venerable Bede, Caius Crispus Sallustius
(Sallust), Lucanian, Y-O, V-square and Byzantine Oxford,
(B-O T-O) Maps.
206 Albi or Merovingian world map, 8th century
206.1 Seiiki no Chizu: Map of China and Westward, 8th century
207 Beatus world maps, 894 - 926
208 Sino-Tibetan world map, ca. 733
209 Ancient Chinese world view, from the Chhin-Ting Shu Ching T’u Shuo, 138 BC
210 Anglo-Saxon or Cottonian world map, 900
211 al-lstakhri’s world map, Arabic, 934.
212 Massaudy world map, pre-956
213 Ibn Hawqal’s world map, Arabic, 980
214 al-Kashgari’s world map, Arabic, 1076
214.1 Ibn al-Wardi world map, 1001
214.2 Balkhi world map with climate boundaries, 816
214.3 al-Biruni world map of the distribution of land and sea, 1029
214.4 al-Harrani, world map from the Jami ’al-funun, 14th century
214.5 El Escorial world map, 12th century
214.6 Terrestrial map, Takvim-i Tarihi
215 The Sawley Map (Henry of Mainz), ca.1110
Jerome’s map of Asia
216 Guido of Pisa’s world map, 1119
217 Lambert of St. Omer world maps, 1120
218 Hua I T’u [Map of China and the Barbarian Countries], ca.1137
218.1 Yü Chi T’u [Map of the Tracks of Yü the Great], ca. 1137
219 al-Idrisi’s world maps, 154
al-Sifaqsi world map, after al-Idrisi
Sun‘I, from Lokman’s Zübdetü’t-tevarih
220 Ti Li chih T’u [Map of West China], 1155
220.1 Fu Yin’s Yü Kung Shuo Tuan ca.1160
220.3 Vercelli mappamundi, 12th-13th century
221 Ibn Said’s world map, Arabic, 13th century
224 Gervase of Tilbury, Ebstorf mappamundi, 1234
224.2 Oxford MS 274 Prefatory map, late 13th century
224.3 Duchy of Cornwall Fragment
225 Matthew Paris’ world map, 1250
Matthew Paris’ Itinerary, from London to Apulia.
226 Richard de Bello of Haldingham, Hereford mappamundi, 1290
226.1 The Mamunic World Map, Ibn Fadl Allah al-‘Umari, ca. 16th century
226.2 Eclectic Indian world map, ca. 1770
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